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Visit Eau Claire is excited to announce the re-launch of the ‘Eau, Snow! Winter Challenge’ mobile pass for a second year. The ‘Eau, Snow! Winter Challenge’ is a free mobile-exclusive pass that features local winterrecreational activities throughout the Chippewa Valley. The pass utilizes geolocation technology, which allows pass holders to check in when they arrive at a featured location and participate in activities such as snowshoeing, sledding, cross-country skiing, and many others. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO.

Flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity levels in Eau Claire County and Wisconsin have increased over the past few weeks, reaching levels higher than usual for this time of the year.The Eau Claire City-County Health Department encourages the community to take several steps while these respiratory viruses are circulating at high levels:• Stay home when you feel sick.• Get up to date on flu and COVID-19 vaccines, including a COVID-19 booster dose if you’re eligible.• Get tested if you

A Fort Atkinson woman will spend the rest of her life in prison for killing her grandmother, then setting her house on fire. A judge yesterday sentenced Elizabeth Durkee to life with the possibility of parole. Durkee admitted that she killed her grandmother last year to keep her from returning to a nursing home. She set the house on fire to cover-up the crime. Durkee, who is 37-years-old, will be allowed to apply for parole after 22-years in prison.

 We’re getting a better picture of the violent past of downtown Madison’s latest accused shooter. Police records show 40-year-old Lamar Jefferson was arrested a week before last week’s deadly shooting after he threatened to kill someone. The police report from his arrest says Jefferson told officers someone hit him, and said he was going to kill that person. Jefferson was eventually arrested for disorderly conduct. He shot and wounded a man on State Street Tuesday afternoon. Jefferson remains on the

The western Wisconsin man who threatened to kill people to get his child back is looking at charges. Prosecutors in Buffalo County yesterday said charges will be coming against Samuel Holmes. He’s the man arrested on Wednesday after the sheriff’s office says he threatened employees of Buffalo County Health and Human Service, and after he called Lutheran Social Services in Eau Claire.

Wisconsin’s governor is looking to take the first step toward setting regulations for the so-called forever chemicals. Governor Tony Evers is expected to ask the Department of Natural Resources Board for permission to create standards for PFAS pollution. There are currently no state regulations at all because the conservatives who control the DNR board scuttled a proposal to set those limits earlier this year. DNR is hoping for better luck this time because the federal EPA recently set its own

The D.A.s in Milwaukee, Madison, and Sheboygan want a judge to dismiss Attorney General Josh Kaul’s lawsuit against Wisconsin’s abortion law. The three prosecutors yesterday asked a judge to toss the case, saying Kaul doesn’t belong in the case. Sheboygan County D.A. Joel Urmanski said in his argument that Kaul should be asking lawmakers to change the 1849 law, not the court. The other two D.A.s say Kaul has not been ‘injured’ by the old law. Kaul filed his lawsuit not

Wisconsin’s Republican U.S. Senator says he didn’t want to see Congress get involved in the back-and-forth between railroad companies and their unions. Senator Ron Johnson yesterday said he doesn’t like to see the government meddle in private businesses, but he also said Congress could not sit back and allow a national railroad strike to cripple the country. Johnson voted for the legislation to keep railroad workers on the job. He said he would have preferred if Democrats hadn’t played politics

Tomorrow is the 30th anniversary of something just about all Americans do dozens if not hundreds of times a day.  On December 3rd, 1992, British software programmer Neil Papworth sent the world’s first text message from a computer to his colleague Richard Jarvis.  It read, “Merry Christmas.”  Papworth was working as a developer and test engineer to create a Short Message Service, or SMS.  One year later, Finnish cellphone maker Nokia introduced an SMS feature with a distinctive beep to

 Ten people are charged in connection with a methamphetamine ring in Fond du Lac.  The Fond du Lac County District Attorney’s Office says the suspects have delivered over 100 pounds of meth worth over one-million dollars this year.  This morning the D-A’s office announced three of the suspects are still out of custody.  They’re all facing a number of drug charges.