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A Madison animal shelter is getting a grant from TV personality Raechel Ray.  Shelter from the Storm Animal Rescue was recently awarded the 25-thousand dollar No-Kill Excellence Grant.  The animal rescue says the money will be used to ensure it can maintain its 90 percent animal save rate.

Eau Claire Parks, Recreation & Forestry and Downtown Eau Claire, Inc.’s 15th Annual “The Amazing Eau Claire Clean Up” is scheduled for Saturday, April 22 nd from 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. The event, organized by Eau Claire Parks, Recreation & Forestry, sends volunteers to assigned locations throughout the city including community parks, neighborhood playgrounds, picnic areas, recreational trails and downtown to pick up litter and perform basic tasks of service. The Amazing Eau Claire Clean-Up is sponsored financially by ECPRF, DECI,

The arrival of spring marks the end of the heating season.  It’s also time for customers who may have fallen behind on their bills to make arrangements to ensure their service is not interrupted. For those who may need financial assistance, there are a variety of programs that can help Xcel customers in need. The moratorium, which expires April 15, helps protect residential energy customers from electric or gas service disconnections if it affects their primary heating source. The rule

Republican lawmakers are ripping Governor Evers after a new audit shows many former inmates are not being sent back to jail for new crimes. The Legislative Audit Bureau released its report on Friday. It says the Department of Corrections is not following-up on former inmates well enough, and says agents are not reporting crimes that could send ex-convicts back to prison. State Senator Eric Wimberger says the failures exposed by the audit show that prison managers are not telling local

 There are not a lot of answers about what led-up to the deadly shootout in western Wisconsin that left two police officers dead. We do know that it happened Saturday afternoon in Cameron, in Barron County. Investigators say a Cameron officer and an officer from Chetek died, as did the suspect who they pulled over. Police departments across Wisconsin, as well as Governor Evers sent well wishes and condolences to both communities. The state’s Department of Justice is handling the investigation. Below is

Wisconsin’s budget road-show is on the move again this week. The legislature’s budget-writing Joint Finance Committee will be in Eau Claire and the Wisconsin Dells for hearings this week. The idea is to allow the public to present lawmakers with their budget priorities. At the first hearing last week, local leaders turned-out in droves to ask for more state money. After this week, there will be one final budget hearing at the end of the month. Then lawmakers will begin to write Wisconsin’s

More than three thousand people have weighed-in on Wisconsin’s proposed wolf management plan. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources released the public comments on the plan late Friday. Many of the people who commented are against the plan. DNR wants to change the state’s strategy for wolves, in particular the agency wants to get away from a wolf population number. Environmentalists are happy to see the changes, they want to have fewer ‘human-wolf interactions’ in the future.

Governor Evers is closing-in on one thousand pardons. The governor on Friday issued 159 more pardons, bringing the total for his time in office to 933. Most of the people on the most recent pardon list had decades old convictions for drugs or other non-violent crimes. The governor says they all paid the price for their crimes, and have gone on to make a difference in their community. The governor says they all deserve a ‘new start.’

The city of Eau Claire is looking to spend some of the last of its coronavirus stimulus money to make sure homeless people can ride the bus for free. The city council will vote tomorrow night on a plan to spend 12 thousand-dollars in ARPA money on bus vouchers for the homeless. City councilor Andrew Werthmann says free rides could allow Eau Claire’s homeless to get out of downtown, and look for jobs or go grocery shopping. Eau Claire is

Harley Davidson’s plans for its new headquarters could mean some changes at Highland Park. Harley’s foundation is proposing to rename the park to Harley Park, take over maintenance and upkeep at the park, and roll it into the new Hub. Harley is looking to transition its downtown headquarters into the Hub, which is essentially an open space for the community. A groundbreaking is set for later this summer, but the plans for Highland Park may take a little longer.