One person is dead after a one vehicle accident in Clifton Township on Tuesday. According to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department, 41yr old Stephen Mountain of River Falls was traveling southbound on Hwy F when he lost control of the vehicle, entered the ditch and overturned. Mountain was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene.
The third annual Durand-Arkansaw FFA AG day was held yesterday at Durand-Arkansaw Middle School. The day gave a chance for middle school students to learn about agriculture from the high school FFA members. Durand-Arkansaw School Superintendent Ryan Nelson says the day is beneficial for both high school and middle school students. Students moved from different stations and learned about the dairy, beef, pork, poultry and sheep, and goat industries, farm equipment, and even farm safety with the Durand Fire Department.
The Pepin County Land Conservation Department and Pepin County Sheriff’s Department is looking for the person responsible for dumping a truck load of used carpet at Holden Park. In a social media post, the Land Conservation Department says the person responsible was driving a 2000’s black extended cab Dodge pickup with an American flag bumper sticker in the lower right rear window. If anyone has any information on the owner of this vehicle, they are to contact the Pepin County Sheriff’s Department.
One person was injured in a single-vehicle accident in the Town of Arcadia yesterday. According to the Trempealeau County Sheriff’s Department , 23yr old Roberto Gonzalez of Arcadia was traveling eastbound on Hwy A and was unable to negotiate a curve and ran off the roadway, entered the ditch, and struck an embankment. Passenger 25yr old Rejina Gomez suffered a minor injury.
Because of a failed referendum earlier this month the Arcadia school district is going to need to make major budget cuts. They will need to cut over 800 thousand dollars for the next school year. The major cuts will include already vacant faculty positions and changing high school programs. One program that has already been cut was gymnastics. They don't have the students to participate, and officials say it's an extremely expensive sport. Once the school finalizes what they will cut, officials will update parents.
Plea deals have been reached in a sexual assault case in Eau Claire. The assaults happened in the early two-thousands. Christopher and Daniel Rodriguez assaulted the victim when he was eight years old and continued until he was a teenager. Yesterday, plea deals were made and if they follow their guidelines, both men can have their charges amended to disorderly conduct after three years.
The Eau Claire Health Department is asking for the public's help in locating a dog. The dog bit a girl over the weekend at Roadside Ice Cream and Diner on Menomonie Street. The dog is a German Shepherd and the man walking the dog was a male who is in his late 20's. The man walking the dog was wearing a blue t-shirt, red zip up and a red hat. They need to determine the dog's rabies status. If anyone has information, they are asked to contact the health department.
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, is warning people about contractors looking to help clean up. The agency is reminding people to be on the lookout for door-to-door repair crews known as 'Storm Chasers'. The Department says chasers usually come from out of state and are known to take advantage of vulnerable people who have experienced damage to their home. Storm chasers will take payments, not work at all, and then leave the area, making them difficult to track. The Department encourages residents with storm damage to hire local contractors and have a written contract before beginning any repairs.
Wisconsin is joining a multi-state lawsuit against the Trump Administration over recent cuts to the AmeriCorps program. Governor Evers and Attorney General Kaul say these actions will lead to major impacts on education, public safety, and overall community needs. They say the cuts will also lead to 430 job losses in the state across 25 AmeriCorps programs.
Another human trafficking operation is broken up in Wisconsin. In Whitewater on Friday, six men ranging in age from 24 to 57 years old were taken into custody. All face counts including prostitution and several drug charges. Oshkosh police took eight men into custody earlier this month and charged them with pandering following an undercover human trafficking investigation in northeast Wisconsin prior to last week’s 2025 NFL Draft in Green Bay.
A bipartisan plan to bring new nuclear power stations to Wisconsin was the subject of a state Senate committee hearing on Wednesday. New Berlin Republican Senator Julian Bradley says bringing more nuclear power to Wisconsin will better position the state for future growth. Two bills direct state agencies to revise and review policies on nuclear power, and to host a nuclear power summit once the new UW-Madison engineering building is completed. Wisconsin's only current nuclear facility is the Point Beach Power plant in Manitowoc County.
Wisconsin saw a record high enrollment in it's youth apprenticeship program. The Department of Workforce Development says 11,344 youth apprentices were enrolled in the program during the 2024-25 school year, which is a 14% increase from the prior year. Youth Apprenticeship is a one-year or two-year earn-while-you-learn program for high school juniors and seniors pairing work and related classroom instruction in a chosen occupation. The program also partnered with a record 7,447 employers. More information on the program can be found on the DWD website.
A Rochester care facility will have to pay a one-thousand-dollar fine to the Minnesota Department of Human Services. The state agency ruled that Rehoboth LLC abused a resident by using a high-frequency buzzer to correct behavior. The facility cares for seniors and people with disabilities.
The Walz administration is making adjustments to its return-to-office policy for state employees. The new measure says those living 50 miles away from work will be exempt from coming to the office. The previous rule was for more than 75 miles away. Governor Walz announced in March that the state workforce will have to start reporting to the office at least 50 percent of the work schedule starting June 1st.
This year's NFL Draft is among the most watched ever. An average audience of seven-and-a-half-million viewers watched the draft held in Green Bay, Wisconsin. That makes it the second-most watched draft ever, only behind the 2020 draft. This year had the most-watched day three on record with an average of four-point-three-million viewers as fans watched to see which team would draft quarterback Shedeur Sanders. The first day of the draft averaged 13-point-six-million viewers while the second day averaged seven-point-five million.
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