WEAU News Headlines

The state Department of Justice never launched a program outlined in the state budget that would have allowed judges to order GPS monitoring for people under restraining orders.

Voters With Facts, which has questioned the viability of the Confluence Project, announced the lawsuit against the Eau Claire City Council and the city in a news release on Tuesday morning.

Authorities say one of the owners of a western Wisconsin retreat has been found dead in a submerged car on the property.

A USPS spokesman says customers must utilize alternate locations beginning Monday, September 29.

For the first time, California's Department of Motor Vehicles knows how many self-driving cars are traveling public roads.

A House committee has determined that the government's auto safety agency should have discovered General Motors' faulty ignition switches seven years before the company recalled 2.6 million cars to fix the deadly problem.

President Barack Obama planned to announce the stepped-up effort Tuesday during a visit to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

A panel of Minneapolis officials has approved a $170,000 pilot program to place body cameras on 36 police officers.

State education officials say the majority of Wisconsin public schools and school districts meet or exceed expectations for student achievement.

Doctors suspect there are at least nine Wisconsin cases of the respiratory and stomach virus that has hospitalized hundreds of children around the country.

A Minnesota man who taught in a western Wisconsin high school has pleaded guilty to having sex with two female students.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is launching a fall photo contest.

A semi rollover has closed all eastbound lanes of Interstate-94 near Hixton.

This week is Child Passenger Safety Week with National Seat Check Saturday just days away. Most caregivers know how important seat belts are but a new study suggests some parents bend the rules for their kids.

Friends and family of Cheri Uelmen gathered Monday to celebrate her life.

An area school district is trying some new ways to educate voters about its referendum.

The Pepin County sheriff says a deadly trench collapse at a home construction site is a tragedy and an accident that no one could’ve seen coming.

Officer Kyle Roder with the Eau Claire Police Department is back from a police conference in England. He received an award for his use of social media and how and how it relates to law enforcement.

The website, livability.com, ranked the city number 59 among the list of small to mid-sized cities.

Officials aren't certain yet what type of bear killed Adam Thomas Stewart of Virgin, Utah.