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Federal investigators are moving against a Grant County industrial cleaning company that’s accused of illegally employing children as young as 13 on dangerous overnight shifts at meat packing plants.  The Department of Labor requested a temporary injunction Wednesday against Packers Sanitation Services after investigators found at least 31 children employed to clean industrial equipment at meat packing plants in Nebraska and Minnesota.  A Labor Department complaint said at least two child workers suffered caustic chemical burns and other injuries while

The University of Wisconsin System is making another attempt to survey students about free speech.  On Monday thousands of students will get an email directing them to a survey that asks how much they value free speech and whether they see problems with a lack of diverse viewpoints.  They’ll also be asked whether they censor themselves and whether they’ve ever been sanctioned or punished for exercising their free speech rights.  The first attempt at a free speech survey last spring set off

If you are up for a weekend road trip, the Christmas light show at Madison’s Olin Park returns this weekend.  Holiday Fantasy in Lights kicks off its 34th year at 5:00 p.m. Saturday.  The lights will be on daily from sun down to sun up throughout the Christmas season.

On Friday, November 11, 2022 at 245AM, Lake Hallie Officers were dispatched to 13026 40th Ave for noise complaint. Multiple neighbors reported hearing sounds of gunshots. An officer responded to the area to investigate and while checking the area, he found two subjects standing outside an apartment complex, from a distance away, pointing in the direction of the squad car. Soon after, the officer heard a gunshot and the two subjects went back inside the apartment. The officer went to

As our temperatures drop below freezing and the occasional snowflake falls from the sky, we encourage all Eau Claire County residents to review their winter weather preparedness. The week of November 14-18 is Winter Weather Awareness Week across all of Wisconsin. Over the next week, emergency management will be doing a social media campaign on this topic, with posts that include dressing for extreme temperatures, winter weather outlook, weather alerts and our Rave emergency notification system, carbon monoxide, and road

The Black Entrepreneurship program at University of Wisconsin-Stout will feature a business founder and two panelists with extensive industry experience. The event, free and open to the public, will be held from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 15, in Sorensen Hall, room 205, with a meet and greet at 4 p.m. in building’s atrium. A livestream of the program also will be available. The panelists are: CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE

Those who risk all in the name of our freedoms long hold a special place not only in our lives but our hearts as well. On this Veteran’s Day we travel west for a story sure to warm your heart. For this weeks Friday Feel Good we travel to A San Diego high school where a football player went viral after talking up his military mom to his teammates.  As you might imagine, the best play of the game had nothing to

Wisconsin’s governor is going to try again to legalize marijuana.  Governor Tony Evers yesterday said he will include legal pot in his next state budget.  The governor has proposed legalizing marijuana before, and each time the Republicans who control the state legislature have shut him down.  A number of communities had advisory pot referendums on the ballot this week.  The governor yesterday said eventually, the ‘will of the people will be the law of the land,’ here in Wisconsin.

Today is Veterans Day, a day set aside to honor the patriotism of the armed services past and present.  National Veterans Day ceremonies take place at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia today, just across the Potomac River from Washington, DC.  Wreath-laying ceremonies will take place at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and World War Two Memorial in DC.  People are expected to line the streets of New York City for the nation’s biggest Veterans’ Day Parade.   Similar celebrations of America’s heroes will

A western Wisconsin nurse is facing charges that she cut-off a man’s foot without authorization, and wanted to keep it in her taxidermy shop.  Prosecutors in Pierce County filed charges against Mary Brown last week.  Investigators say she cut the right foot off a 62-year-old man last May.  Court documents say Brown told coworkers she amputated the man’s foot because it was dying from frostbite, and she wanted to make him more comfortable.  Neither the man or any doctors at the health