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It’s here! Thanksgiving 2024 is as late as it can be, but it’s arrived! We hope you are set to enjoy the holiday with a heart as full as your belly today. Thanks for spending a little time with us. As we reflect on the blessings in our life, we’ll take a minute to also look at the day and what’s going on around the Union as people prepare to dish up, chow down and take time to give thanks.

Officials in Sawyer County continue to look for tips after a series of fires in the area. Below is video and the latest release from the Sawyer County Sheriff’s Office: The Sawyer County Sheriff’s Office, in collaboration with the Wisconsin Department of Justice, Division of Criminal Investigation State Fire Marshal’s Office, is actively investigating a series of six suspected arson fires that have occurred since November 18, 2024, in the Radisson, Exeland and Birchwood areas of Sawyer County. In an

An audit in Eau Claire County shows all votes are accurately counted. The post-election audit report says voting equipment used in the City of Eau Claire and the Towns of Washington and Seymour were working properly for the general election. More than 55-hundred hand-counted ballots in the county were found to have zero discrepancies. CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE COVERAGE WITH WEAU 13 NEWS.

The U.S. Supreme Court could take-up Eau Claire’s trans policy case. The court is considering a hearing on the challenge to Eau Claire Area Schools’ policy on gender. That policy allows teachers and school administrators to hide gender changes from parents. The Wisconsin Institute  for Law and Liberty sued over the policy, but their lawsuit was dismissed because WILLs clients didn’t have kids in Eau Claire Schools. Eau Claire Area School leaders have defended the policy in the past as

ABOVE PHOTO: : Emily Isaacson, 46, of Eau Claire, always wanted to be a nurse. Circumstances pulled her away from that profession and kept her at bay for more than 20 years. On Thursday, Dec. 12, Isaacson will receive her nursing degree from Chippewa Valley Technical College. When Emily Isaacson walks across the stage to receive her diploma from Chippewa Valley Technical College in a couple of weeks, she’s sure to get emotional. “I always wanted to go into nursing, but

An Eau Claire man is looking at charges after firefighters say he set his own mobile home on fire. The trailer on Revere Street was gutted yesterday morning after police say  51-year-old Patrick Bischel set it on fire. He’d just been evicted from the trailer. Investigators say they found Bischel downtown, and he eventually confessed to starting the fire. No one was hurt, but a neighbor’s trailer was damaged in the fire. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM THE ECPD.

There are charges for a father and son in Vernon County who are accused of killing their neighbor’s dog. Prosecutors filed charges this week against John Kurtz and his son Andrew. The sheriff’s office says Kurtz’s neighbor reported her dog missing over the weekend. The neighbor said Kurtz had threatened to kill the dog before, because it got too close to his property. Deputies say Kurtz told them he had his son shoot the dog, then he tossed its body

Add Wisconsin’s Libertarian Party to the list of people asking for their money back. The Libertarians yesterday fired off a letter to lawmakers asking them to return the state’s four billion-dollar budget surplus to the taxpayers. The party says lawmakers need to stop ‘robbing the taxpayers.’ Republican lawmakers at the Wisconsin Capitol have said for years that they want to return the surplus to taxpayers, but Democrats and Governor Evers say they’d rather spend it.

EC gets a RC. Eau Claire’s Raising Canes is set to open next Tuesday. The new restaurant on Gateway Drive will open at 10 a.m. Tuesday morning. There are plans for a Lucky 20 drawing, where 20 people will get free Canes for a year. The line for the giveaway opens at 8 a.m., and you have to be at the store to win. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION. CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE COVERAGE WITH WEAU 13 NEWS.

More Wisconsinites are hunting for deer this year. The Department of Natural Resources says deer hunting licenses increased half a percent to about 778-thousand this season. Those hunters harvested almost 90-thousand deer overall during the opening weekend this year, about five-percent less than the five-year average. Antlerless deer harvests, however, are on the rise. The DNR says final numbers will be released in January.