WEAU News Headlines

A Rhodes Scholar and UW- Eau Claire Student was recognized at the UW System Board of Regents Meeting Thursday.

The agency says its because of a serious safety violation in a Nebraska warehouse where a worker died in September 2014.

UW-Stout Chancellor Bob Meyer has released an update on what the university is doing to plan for the proposed budget cuts by Gov. Scott Walker.

A second former employee has filed a claim against Chippewa County.

A southern Wisconsin college is reacting to the latest incident of racist messages on campus.

A representative of Wisconsin's Native American tribes says the state's tribes will not support iron mining projects.

Wisconsin state Capitol Police say about 300 people have gathered to protest the passage of a right-to-work bill.

The Department of Workforce Development (DWD) today released the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) preliminary state employment and unemployment estimates for January 2015, showing Wisconsin's unemployment rate dropped to 5.0 percent, its lowest point since August 2008.

Due to popular demand, the 2015 Chippewa Valley Wage Survey will now be distributed in March and published in July. This will allow more employers to use the information for budgeting and compensation planning purposes, as October 1 was too late for many companies.

Leaders at Wisconsin's elections board says plans to make changes after a critical state audit could be hampered by cuts in Gov. Scott Walker's proposed budget.

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has spoken by phone with Target Corp.' chief executive Brian Cornell ahead of an in-person meeting about big job cuts coming to the retailer's Minneapolis headquarters.

Last month, 25 people died in traffic crashes in Wisconsin, which was the third safest month of February in terms of traffic fatalities in the last 10 years, according to preliminary statistics from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT).

Lawyers for the parents of an unarmed, black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson have announced plans to file a civil lawsuit in their son's death.

An Indiana Senate committee unanimously passed a bill that would ban the sale and manufacture of popular toiletries and cosmetics containing tiny plastic particles that environmentalists say are polluting water resources.

On Wednesday, they held a news conference at the Eau Claire Plumbers and Steamfitters Union training center.

The father of a 3-year-old girl and his girlfriend will stand trial on charges in the toddler's death in La Crosse County.

It's a battle teachers, professors and parents are facing; how do you get a message through when your target is glued to a cell phone? A UW-Stout professor has a unique solution.

An event to benefit the Feed My People Food Bank is happening most of the day Thursday.

Crews have opened up the westbound lanes of Interstate 90 at the scene of a traffic crash.

Operators at Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant declared a Notification of Unusual Event on Thursday morning.