One person is facing numerous drug charges after a drug bust in Durand on Thursday. According to Durand Police, officers with assistance from the West Central Narcotic Task Force, executed a residential search warrant at 208 West Main Street, Apt 2 and found 60 grams of cocaine, 31 grams of ecstasy, along with anabolic steroids, methamphetamine and other drugs. 45Yr old George Paquette of Durand was arrested on multiple charges and is currently being held in the Pepin County Jail.
No one was injured when a semi caught fire on Hwy 95 in the town of Glencoe on Friday. According to the Buffalo County Sheriff's Department, the semi was traveling eastbound on Hwy 95 near Joose Valley Road, lost control and entered the eastbound ditch and caught fire. Both the tractor and trailer were fully engulfed and Hwy 95 was closed for several hours while crews conducted cleanup and removal of the semi and trailer.
Two people were injured in a two vehicle accident on Hwy 93 in the city of Arcadia on Sunday. According to the Trempealeau County Sheriff’s Department, a car traveling westbound on Blanschko Avenue collided with a truck pulling a gravity box that was traveling southbound on Hwy 93. The driver of the car was extricated from the vehicle and med-flighted to Gunderson Hospital in La Crosse, while a passenger in the truck was taken to an Eau Claire Hospital.
The Aging and Disability Resource Center of Buffalo and Pepin Counties will hold a public hearing on an application for a 2026 Specialized Transportation Program for Counties grant to provide transportation services for seniors and individuals with disabilities in Buffalo and Pepin Counties on Tuesday. The public Hearings will be from 11-12pm at Beth’s Twin Bluffs Cafe in Nelson and from 1-2pm at the Pepin Public Library. Feedback on the grant application will be accepted until November 1st.
Eau Claire police identified the suspect and victim who died in a fiery crash Wednesday. The victim is 35-year-old Jack Ritchie of Eau Claire. The suspect, 27-year-old Anthony Reyes, is in jail, charged with homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle and fleeing an officer. It happened Wednesday morning around 3 a.m. Police say Reyes was speeding with his headlights off, driving recklessly before hitting another car, which burst into flames. Ritchie was pronounced dead at the scene.
Residents in the City of Eau Claire may notice an influx of law enforcement officers this week. The city is playing host to the Wisconsin Law Enforcement Canine Handler Association 2025 Conference. K9 handlers and their working dogs from around the state will be training at over a dozen sites throughout the Eau Claire area. The event is closed to the public.
Candidates for Congress in northern Wisconsin are staking out their positions. 7th District Representative Tom Tiffany is running for governor, and Jessi Ebben is the first Republican in the race. Ebben said she is "Trump Republican" who wants "to provide President Trump the reinforcement he needs to get the agenda done to make America great again.” Democrat Fred Clark says he’s been spurred to run by what he sees in Washington, namely "a Congress that has just failed in their most basic responsibilities to serve as a co-equal branch of government.” Clark served with Tiffany when both were in the state Assembly and will face Chris Armstrong in a Democratic primary. Ebben ran for Congress in the 3rd District in 2020, losing to Derrick Van Orden in the Republican primary. She and her family have since moved into Tiffany’s district.
October is Cybersecurity Month, and Wisconsin Consumer Protection wants you to check if all your important files are backed up. Administrator Michelle Reinen says you can use either a cloud system, or buy some physical hard drives to store those files. Your phone or device might already offer those cloud backups through on board programs like Google Drive, One Drive or iCloud. Reinen says if you are using cloud storage, to be sure to keep your account secure, or else you could still lose access to your files. Good options for physical backups are solid state drives you can plug into your device to simply copy files, or to use a thumb drive stored in a safe place. Be sure to keep that storage separate from your device when you're not using it, to prevent viruses or malware from getting to it.
A plane lands in northwest Wisconsin with its landing gear still up. The FAA in La Crosse contacted the Jackson County Sheriff's Office Thursday afternoon after having difficulty making contact with the pilot, who landed at Black River Falls Municipal Airport. First responders arrived to find the pilot unharmed and the plane on its belly with its landing gear still up. The plane didn’t ignite or leak any fuel. The runway was closed for at least 24 hours for investigation and removing the plane from the scene.
Trump Administration is canceling a nearly half-a-billion-dollar grant for powerlines in Minnesota. The 12 canceled grants include a 460-million-dollar proposal to build large transmission lines in seven states. More than seven billion dollars worth of energy department projects have been cut by the Trump administration. State officials said losing the transmission line construction project could lead to higher energy prices that would fall the hardest on middle and lower income families.
At least four members of Congress from Wisconsin are among those foregoing pay during the federal government’s partial shutdown. House Republicans Glenn Grothman and Tony Weid both posted pictures to social media of letters sent to the House Chief Administrative Officer making the request to withhold their pay during the shutdown, which both blame on Democrats. Republican Representative Brian Steil and Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin also asked for their pay to be held back. The annual salary for most senators and representatives is about $174,000 a year. Federal employees deemed essential, and members of the U.S. armed forces are required to work without pay until after the shutdown ends.
ICE agents were in Madison last week. Madison police say Immigrations and Customs Enforcement conducted an operation at a residential address on Thursday, but no specifics were given on the location. Madison police say while they were aware of the operation, they did not assist ICE. Madison's Centro Hispano wrote in a social media post that agents were on the city's northeast side and that 7 arrests were made. ICE agents last week were also in Manitowoc County, where 24 people were arrested. The Department of Homeland Security says those arrests were connected to drug trafficking and human smuggling investigations.
A second outbreak of bird flu has been confirmed in another Jefferson County commercial poultry flock. The site is under quarantine, and more than 500-thousand birds will be culled, with no risk to the food supply. Health officials say the public risk remains low as farm workers are monitored. This follows another outbreak in the county confirmed last week, where about three million birds were affected.
The Field of Screams is opening on Saturday. This year's theme is "Hunted" and visitors can experience scares, screams and new surprises from things that are nightmare fuel. The haunted attraction is supporting organizations in the Chippewa Valley, including Feed My People, the Eau Claire County 4-H Older Youth Council, Pleasant Hill Go Getter 4-H Club, Warehouse Warriors and more. This is the events 14th year and 150 scare actors are getting ready for opening day. Organizers say the haunted trail and bran are not made for young kids.
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