WEAU News Headlines

A Boy Scout party is safe after their two canoes capsized on a windswept lake in the Boundary Water Canoe Area in northeastern Minnesota.

A beach that had been closed because of concern about bacteria levels is now open again.

Service on the Northstar commuter rail line is cancelled after a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train derailed and blocked the tracks between Big Lake and Ramsey.

An autopsy is scheduled today for the victim.

The University of Minnesota is getting about $103,000 in federal money to help educate farmers and ranchers about the new farm bill.

A family spokesman says the pilot of a small plane who died in a crash outside New York City was Richard Rockefeller, great grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller.

Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington are the cities still in the running for a possible U.S. bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics.

President Barack Obama says Iraq's government must make a sincere effort to address sectarian differences, or else U.S. military help won't succeed in curbing the insurgency there.

The Ho-Chunk Nation has been ordered to stop offering video poker games at its Madison casino.

A town police chief in western Wisconsin is accused of retaliating against a tea party activist by creating accounts in his name on pornographic and dating websites.

Both sides of the fight over same-sex marriages in Wisconsin are headed back to federal court for a hearing that could determine whether the weddings can continue.

The 18th Annual Breakfast in the Valley is being held on Friday, June 13th at the Eau Claire County Expo Center from 5 a.m. - 10 a.m.

Area high school graduates tested their luck Thursday for a chance to win a car.

An Eau Claire chiropractor is accused of raping one of his patients during an appointment.

An Eau Claire man accused of sexually assaulting a minor will spend the next nine months in jail.

In Eau Claire County more than 64,000 pounds of food was collected for the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. But pantries say what comes in for donations isn’t always usable.

An area cheesemaker is defending the use of wooden boards to age cheese, for the same reason the food and drug administration had wanted to ban it: consumer safety. The FDA later backed off of that stance.

An area fire department is looking for daytime EMS volunteers.

The Sheridan family donated a "peace pole" to the school to honor the late Terry Sheridan, a former Meadowview Principal.

Court records show that James Albrecht, 31, of Eau Claire entered the plea on Thursday.