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Environmentalists and business groups are finding surprising common ground in a campaign to get rid of tiny plastic bits that are polluting the Great Lakes and other waters and being eaten by fish.

Kim Blum is in her 10th year at UW-L, including completing her first as Deputy Director of Athletics in 2013-14.

“This program fills a void created when school lunches are not available,” said ECASD Food Service Director Susan Brown.

One person had died in a collision with a sheriff's deputy in Washington County.

An injured woman was rescued from the Mississippi River in Minneapolis by two rowing coaches and two rowers from the University of Minnesota.

The backlash over a request for information about disabled students in Wisconsin's voucher school program is looking a lot like the Republican response to a similar U.S. Department of Justice investigation in Louisiana.

The Department of Natural Resources plans to ask its board next week to limit the total kill to 156 wolves. Agency officials say they want to slow down after hunters killed 257 wolves last year, six more than their limit.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it has opened two new investigations into Chrysler over complaints that the ignition key could shut the engine off and cause air bags not to deploy in a crash.

A baby sitter on trial for homicide in Sauk County says she never accidentally dropped the infant she's accused of killing.

A stretch of U.S. Highway 53 is blocked off because of water that is over the road.

A new congressional report says the Social Security Administration has been closing a record number of field offices, even as millions of baby boomers approach retirement.

Sheriff's officials say one person is in custody after a man was set on fire in Andover.

The Commerce Department says the deficit jumped to a seasonally adjusted $111.2 billion in the January-March quarter, up from a revised total of $87.3 billion in the October-December quarter.

The University of Wisconsin-Platteville men's basketball coach is credited with moving dozens of children out of harm's way as a tornado hit the campus.

Thunderstorms with heavy rain end Wednesday morning, but are likely again Wednesday night.

La Crosse County is urging people to stay away from storm-damaged power lines.

A motorcyclist is hurt after crashing into a deer Tuesday night.

Kobi Shaw of Colfax Wisconsin makes it the Ellen Show with a unique talent. Check out this video!

The rapidly growing sport of disc golf, or as some like to call it "frolfing," got a brand new course Tuesday afternoon in Menomonie.

Some familiar families in the Eau Claire business community were honored Tuesday.