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People who buy beer, wine, or liquor won’t notice most of the changes in Wisconsin’s proposed liquor law overhaul. A plan that is quickly working its way through the Capitol would mostly impact the companies that make or sell alcohol, and is being hailed as a deal that’s been a longtime coming. One of the biggest changes would be a new state government office to focus on alcohol law enforcement, including a ban on things like beer-of-the-month clubs. For customers, the

We’ll have a much better idea of what the University of Wisconsin is getting from the state by the end of the day. The budget-writing Joint Finance Committee is set to act on the UW’s budget request today. The UW’s president wants an eight-percent budget increase in the state’s new spending plan. That would be on top of the four-percent tuition hike that regents approved back in the spring. Lawmakers have already turned down a request from the university for a new

Democrats at the Wisconsin Capitol are using the last few weeks of the spring session to once again ask for new gun laws. A group of lawmakers, including Madison state Senator Melissa Agard yesterday demanded a vote on a red flag law and universal background check plan. Agard and the Democrats say the new laws will help keep people safe. Republicans at the Capitol have opposed both red flag laws and new background check requirements for years, and are expected to do

Senior citizens can get some vouchers for Eau Claire’s farmer’s market. The Aging and Disability Resource Center in Eau Claire has a limited number of vouchers to be handed out this month. The 35 dollars in vouchers are good for fruits or vegetables at the market. Program Manager Betsy Henck says the vouchers are not new, but they are welcome. The idea, she says, is to make sure seniors have fresh fruits and vegetables.

MOOOOve over office work, if you love to eat cheese there is a new gig for you. The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research is hiring a dairy taste tester to talk about food based on appearance, texture, taste and aroma.  Whoever gets the gig can expect to taste as many as a dozen pizzas and 24 cheese samples a week. 

Sheriff Brent Waak with the Polk County Sheriff’s office released an update in a recent officer involved shooting. Read that release below: The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the officer-involved shooting that occurred on June 3rd, in St. Croix County. The Officers involved in this incident are as follows: Sergeant Chase Durand with the St. Croix County Sheriff’s Office. Sergeant Durand has 8 years of Law Enforcement experience. He started with the New Richmond Police Department from 2014-2015 and

A crash in Rusk County turns deadly. A Rusk County Highway Department grader was operating southbound on Hwy 40. The grader wasoperating with its flashing lights on doing shoulder work when a truck also traveling south on Hwy 40rear-ended the grader. The female driver of the truck was airlifted to a hospital in Eau Claire. The front-seat male passenger was pronounced deceased at the scene. Names are currently being withheld pending notification of family.

Responders were on the scene of a deadly UTV crash in Barron County. Deputies from the Barron County Sheriff’s Department along with the Cumberland Police Department, Cumberland Fire Department, Mayo Ambulance, Marshfield Medical Ambulance, 2 Life Link Helicopters, Barron County First Responders and the WI DNR responded to the scene. Initial investigation shows a UTV was traveling south on the trail and left the trail and struck a tree. Two occupants of the UTV were both extricated from the UTV.

Mary L Underwood, 38 years of age, from Joliet, IL has been arrested by the Wisconsin State Patrol Eau Claire Post for operating a motor vehicle under the influence, 1st offense, with four children in the vehicle under the age of 16. On June 12, 2023, at approximately 5:37 AM a Wisconsin State Patrol Trooper stopped a car on Interstate 94 that was traveling east near mile marker 105 in Jackson County for speeding. During the traffic stop, the Trooper

ABOVE PHOTO:Students work on a flexible robotic arm in a lab at UW-Stout’s Fryklund Hall, home to the Robert F. Cervenka School of Engineering. Manufacturing is going high-tech — robots, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, analytics and more to help make and distribute products. It’s called Industry 4.0, or smart automation. Much of the next generation of the manufacturing workforce won’t make the products but will program and manage the automated systems that do it for them. To address the growing,