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Wisconsin veterans say they've received good care at an embattled Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Tomah.

A Milwaukee-based motorcycle manufacturer has announced 169 workers will be laid off at its plant in Missouri.

Women from across the Chippewa Valley got together for the 13th annual Celebration of Women event Thursday night.

After months of hoping and wishing for a bike to fit his needs, Ajay Wilson's wish finally came true.

With city council seats up for grabs in next month's election, the Eau Claire community had a chance to hear from the potential candidates. Candidates for the five district Eau Claire City Council seats participated in a candidate’s forum Thursday night.

After ten weeks of training, ten people from the Eau Claire area can now call themselves graduates of the Citizen's Police Academy. Thursday night, the ten enrollees received graduation certificates.

Patients at the Tomah VA, their families and the community were at the VA's chapel Thursday night for a town hall meeting to voice concerns.

Demolition of the Plaza building started around 10:30 a.m. Thursday.

As construction continues on parts of the Confluence Project, donations continue to pour in.

Officials with the San Francisco-based McKesson Corp. say a new distribution center being built in northern Iowa will assume the operations of three warehouses around the Midwest.

In an email sent to staff on Thursday, Chancellor James Schmidt unveiled a voluntary separation incentive program.

The early spring warm-up has many people getting outdoors. On Thursday Hickory Hills Golf Course opened for the season.

Attorneys seeking to stop a secret investigation into whether Gov. Scott Walker's 2012 recall campaign should continue have proposed closing the state Supreme Court's hearing room to the general public during oral arguments.

Wisconsin veterans are set to discuss problems they've had at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Tomah.

The Cadott Police Department says A 24 year-old employee of Greener Acres was attempting to cut open a metal 55-gallon drum with a blow torch which caused the drum to explode, causing serious injury to the man.

The state Senate's judiciary committee has approved a Republican bill that would eliminate Wisconsin's decades-old two-day waiting period for handgun purchases.

An American health worker who contracted Ebola while volunteering in Africa will be admitted to a secure treatment center at the National Institutes of Health.

More than 100 high school students from 13 school districts across northwestern Wisconsin competed for scholarships.

Lynn McDonough, owner of Connell’s Restaurants, was honored as the Restaurateur of the Year by the Wisconsin Restaurant Association.

An organization that has questioned the viability of the Confluence Project is now suing the City of Eau Claire for the second time in six months.