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A convicted Fond du Lac meth dealer will be spending the next eight years behind bars.  Adrian Irby received the sentence yesterday which also includes seven years extended supervision.  Prosecutors say Irby’s criminal history goes back almost a decade.

A new Dane County judge will not be overseeing a lawsuit between Michael Gableman and a liberal watchdog group.  Judge Frank Remington rejected Gableman’s request today.  Gableman was found in contempt of court last month after he accused Remington of bias during a hearing.  Gableman was hired by Wisconsin Assembly Republicans to look into the 2020 election.

Campaign finance reports are showing Steven Spielberg is one of the major donors to Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers’ re-election campaign.   Wisconsin Democracy Campaign released the figures today.  The Oscar award-winning actor gave the Democrat Evers 20-thousand dollars.  Weebly CEO David Rusenko and Ziff Capital Partners founder Dirk Ziff also donated 20 grand to Evers.

In July, the Chippewa Valley Technical College library began sharing materials with 53 public libraries in the MORE system — a consortium of libraries in western Wisconsin circulating resources totaling more than a million items. “As a library and as a college, we strive to make our students’ learning experiences more equitable” Students and employees can request library materials from any of the libraries to be delivered to CVTC, or they can request CVTC library materials to be delivered to any of

A Medford man picks up a 7th OWI. It was on Monday, July 18th at approximately 3:24 pm, the Wisconsin State Patrol took a report of a vehicle traveling on Interstate 94 near Northfield, that was swerving back and forth between both eastbound lanes of traffic. A Wisconsin State Trooper was able to locate the vehicle and initiate a traffic stop at milepost 120 south of Black River Falls, after observing multiple traffic violations. The Trooper observed signed of impairment

You may have heard the rumors or seen the social media activity around a new addition to the date night landscape in our area. Eau Claire is a step closer to a new spot for baby back ribs (go ahead, sing the song!). The city’s Plan Commission last night unanimously approved the plan for a new Chili’s on the city’s south side. Commissioners also approved plans for a new Valvoline store as well.

Eau Claire County’s former district attorney has a year to get ready for trial in his sexual harassment case. A federal judge laid-out the schedule in the case yesterday. The Victim Witness Coordinator in the Eau Claire County D.A.’s office is suing former D.A. Gary King, claiming that he harassed her for years. King denies all of the claims. King resigned as top prosecutor last summer just after an investigation into his office found several claims of harassment and misconduct.

There’s now a lawsuit over the annexation fight between Eau Claire and the Town of Washington. The lawsuit challenges how Eau Claire annexed the nearly 300 acres back in June. Land can be annexed as long as it borders the city, the land in question did not, but does border a piece of Lowes Creek Park. The city annexed that land too, but the lawsuit says that annexation was flawed, so the whole thing should be canceled. The Town of

Lawmakers in Madison are getting ready to override the state’s Elections Commissions. The legislature’s Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules will meet tomorrow to kill a proposed rule from the Commission that would allow local election clerks to fill-in information on absentee ballots without contacting voters first. Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu says state law is clear that clerks cannot add missing information, and said the Elections Commission’s rule clearly violates that law. The coming override is just the