WEAU News Headlines

The Eau Claire Police Department is trying to raise awareness of high-tech resources available to the public.

The harsh winter last year has area cities paying more for salt this year.

Organizers will meet tonight to discuss details on how Eau Claire could be home to a new music festival.

That's according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll that surveyed 1,845 adults online last month.

A portrait of the late Winona businessman Paul Watkins has disappeared from the family's old manor that now functions as an assisted-living facility.

20-year-old Trevor Ausman, 19-year-old Micaiah Krause, and 29-year-old Joshua Rose have been charged with three counts of burglary of a building or dwelling.

It's an issue affecting children and their families across the country but is hitting Wisconsin harder than most, even occurring more often in our local schools.

What a difference a week can make in Western Wisconsin. From highs in the 80's last weekend to now likely the first snowflakes of the season in the forecast for Friday Night.

While the Green Bay Packers were taking care of the Chicago Bears Sunday at Soldier Field, two Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources wardens on patrol pulled off a real safety for two bear cubs that rushed a Polk County tree.

On Thursday, Walmart will hosted a “Day of Giving” event in Wisconsin, awarding 10 nonprofits with a Walmart Foundation Wisconsin State Giving grant.

Last month, 43 people died in traffic crashes on Wisconsin roads, which made it the safest month of September in terms of traffic fatalities since the end of World War II, according to preliminary statistics from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT). The deadliest September was in 1973 with 116 fatalities.

Merchants Bank has pledged $50,000 in support of the new community arts center that is part of the proposed Confluence Project in downtown Eau Claire.

The charges were filed in Green Lake County Thursday against 33-year-old Nicholas Tuinstra.

University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross today announced four finalists for the position of chancellor at University of Wisconsin Colleges and University of Wisconsin-Extension.

A conservative group has filed a federal lawsuit asking that a Wisconsin law limiting coordination between third party organizations and political candidates be declared unconstitutional.

State health officials say the number of confirmed cases of enterovirus 68 has climbed to five in Wisconsin.

A federal report says a fatal towboat accident near La Crescent occurred because the vessel's operator was not properly trained.

Authorities will decide whether charges are warranted against a teenager accused of plotting to shoot a classmate at Wisconsin Dells High School.

Opponents of Wisconsin's voter identification law are asking the Supreme Court to keep officials from enforcing it in the November election.

Nearly 100 emergency responders are training this week for the possibility of a large oil spill on the Mississippi River caused by a train derailment.