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There’s no word what the UW System’s TikTok ban means for UW-Eau Claire. The university yesterday said TikTok can no longer be used or installed on university-owned phones, laptops, and computers. There’s a fear that TikTok’s Chinese owners can spy on American users. But the university isn’t saying just how many employees have university-owned cell phones, and there is no word how many of them actually use TikTok. Students will continue to be able to use TikTok if they like.

Eau Claire is joining the No Mow May movement. The city council last night changed the city’s rule for mowing lawns, pushing back the start date for a grass-height requirement til June, to allow people to grow-out their yards to help bees and other pollinators. Councilman Joshua Miller, who is a former beekeeper, drove the idea.  He says Eau Claire should set an example for communities to encourage pollinators to thrive in the spring. Eau Claire will continue to require

Badger football tickets are now on sale. The university yesterday opened season ticket sales for the 2023 season. You can grab your set for 378 dollars, that’s the same price as last year. Wisconsin will take on Ohio State, Iowa, Nebraska, Northwestern, and Rutgers at home this year. The new season begins September 2nd against the University of Buffalo.

Keith S. Burch, 55, of Warrens, Wisconsin was recently charged in Monroe County Circuit Court with three felony counts of filing a false or fraudulent state income tax return for tax years 2016 through 2018. According to the criminal complaint, Burch failed to report self-employment income he earned from his private investigations business. The complaint alleges that Burch filed tax returns that understated his income by more than $226,000, thereby evading over $13,000 in Wisconsin income tax. Under Wisconsin law, filing

Wisconsin gas prices are still going up.  Triple-A says the statewide average sits at three dollars and 25-cents a gallon, up four-cents overnight and up eight-cents from this time last week.  The average in Madison is up ten-cents from last week at three-20 a gallon.  That’s also up over 40-cents from last month.  Triple-A says the rise in gas prices continues to be driven by high demand.

A man from Janesville is facing his eighth OWI charge, accused of running from police several times overnight.  Police say they tried to pull over a car that was speeding through a neighborhood just after midnight but the driver took off.  Police say they tried to pull the car over two other times before the driver finally stopped near Mineral Point Avenue and North Walnut Street.  Dustin O’Connor was arrested and charged with OWI, fleeing, and parole violation.

On Wednesday, December 28, 2022, at approximately 8:57 am, Lake Hallie Police responded to Wal-Mart, 2786 Commercial Blvd, Lake Hallie, for a report of a male subject who passed four counterfeit $100 bills. The incident originally occurred on Tuesday, December 27, 2022. On January 17, 2023, the photos from the case were uploaded to the Lake Hallie Police Facebook page, to see if social media could assist in identifying the unknown subject. The following day, the Cornell Police Department issued

ABOVE PHOTO: The Little Nell Hotel in winter. Photo by Aspen Snowmass. Strolling into a five-star location can make anyone feel like a celebrity. The attention immediately falls on them – the guest – the center of the hospitality universe. “It is really knowing what they want before they know they want it and being prepared to fulfill those wants.”  Guests may not realize it, but there are dozens of employees at any given time, working to make their luxury

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) is accepting applications for 2023 Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin (BLBW) grants through March 31, 2023. DATCP will award a total of up to $200,000 in BLBW grant funding in 2023. BLBW is a competitive grant program designed to strengthen Wisconsin’s agriculture and food industries by helping farms and businesses more efficiently process, market, and distribute locally grown food products. BLBW grants provide consumers with access to more Wisconsin-grown food products,

 There aren’t many answers about the explosion of violence in Milwaukee over the weekend. Police say 18 people were shot between Friday and early Monday morning, two of them died. The shootings include at least one triple-shooting. Both of the victims who died were teens. Police say one was 14-years-old, the other was 15. Milwaukee’s mayor says people in the city’s neighborhoods need to step-up and help.