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The annual fall festival returns to Chippewa Falls for its 23rd year running.
The event has become a fixture of the Chippewa Valley fall calendar, drawing crowds back to downtown Chippewa Falls each year for food, music, and beer-hall tradition.
The village of Cadott is marking the grand opening of its library this weekend.
The opening caps off a project to give the small Chippewa County community its own dedicated library space.
A local family with two young kids lost their home in a fire, and a relative has started a fundraiser to help them recover.
The family is now working to rebuild after losing the home entirely, and the GoFundMe is meant to cover immediate needs while they find their footing.
Authorities made an arrest in a decades-old cold case involving a man who went missing in 1995.
The arrest comes more than 30 years after Ruland's disappearance, reopening a case that had gone unsolved for a generation.
Some parents are questioning the school board's choice of a new superintendent from outside the area.
The school board president has been responding directly to parent questions about how the hiring decision was made.
The Eau Claire Area School District backed off its proposal to close schools even as enrollment challenges continue.
The district is now working out what comes next after shelving the closure plan, with enrollment pressure still an open problem.
Fuel prices across the state have been unusually volatile, with one single-day jump of 30 cents.
Prices have swung multiple times over the past month, an unusually sharp pattern that's left drivers unable to predict what they'll pay at the pump week to week.
Districts across Wisconsin are trimming budgets as state aid falls short of covering rising costs.
The shortfall is forcing hard choices at the district level, and it's part of why stories like Eau Claire's school-closure debate keep coming up around the state.
State public health officials are leaning on vaccination outreach as measles cases continue to climb statewide.
The state's outbreak now spans multiple counties, and officials say wider MMR vaccination is the clearest way to slow further spread.
A proposed accelerated program is aimed at getting more teachers in front of Milwaukee Public Schools classrooms faster.
The compressed degree track is a direct response to chronic staffing shortages at Milwaukee Public Schools.
A planned 765kV power line through the Driftless region is drawing rare bipartisan pushback from rural communities.
Landowners and local officials across the political spectrum are objecting to the project's route through the hilly Driftless region.
Cooke is refusing to debate Rep. Van Orden, saying the planned host isn't neutral.
The dispute is over who's moderating rather than whether to debate at all, with Cooke's campaign arguing the chosen host favors Van Orden.
A court rejected an effort to knock a state senate candidate off the November ballot.
The dismissal clears the way for the candidate to stay on the ballot as the case's underlying challenge failed to hold up in court.
An internal investigation found what the city called "highly concerning actions," prompting the mayor to move toward removing the chief.
The city's own investigation is what triggered the mayor's push, and the case is now headed toward a formal removal process.
Voters can now begin casting absentee ballots ahead of the coming election.
The window is now open for Wisconsin voters who want to cast their ballot early rather than waiting for election day.
The competitive district has become a focal point for national campaign money and media coverage.
Outside spending and national press attention are pouring into the district as both parties treat the race as a bellwether contest.
The move follows the administration's announcement of a ban on the three outlets over coverage it called unfavorable.
Reporters from all three outlets were physically turned away, one of the more direct confrontations yet between the administration and the press corps.
The suits challenge administration suggestions that federal immigration officers could be stationed near polls, calling it voter intimidation.
The lawsuits argue that stationing immigration enforcement near polling sites would chill turnout among immigrant and Latino communities.
One of the largest drone barrages of the war so far targeted the Russian capital directly.
The scale marks an escalation in Ukraine's long-range strike campaign, with hundreds of drones aimed specifically at Moscow rather than border regions.
The president enacted a broad new sanctions package in response to the ongoing conflict.
The package widens existing economic pressure on Moscow and comes as the war continues with no negotiated end in sight.
It's the first attempted strike on the Saudi capital by the Iran-backed group, raising fresh concern over a key shipping corridor.
Saudi air defenses intercepted the missile before it reached the capital, but the attempt marks a new escalation from a group that has mostly targeted shipping until now.
The agreement gives the U.S. a bigger foothold on the strategically located Arctic island.
The deal follows months of negotiation between Washington, Copenhagen, and Greenlandic officials over U.S. access to the island.
Iran's security chief laid out terms including an end to attacks, the release of frozen funds, and lifting the blockade.
Qatar is acting as the go-between for the message, which lays out what Tehran says it would need to see before agreeing to wind down the conflict.
Pyongyang dismissed the resolution from the UN's nuclear monitoring body.
North Korea rejected the resolution outright, continuing its longstanding refusal to engage with the UN's nuclear oversight body.
Front-line workers are receiving the Ervebo vaccine, which proved effective in past Ebola outbreaks.
Health workers are being prioritized first since they're at the highest risk of exposure while treating patients at the center of the outbreak.
A United Nations investigation has documented alleged American war crimes carried out during operations in Iran.
It's the kind of finding that hasn't led every outlet's coverage the way it leads Democracy Now's — the UN mission's allegations go directly at U.S. conduct rather than framing the story primarily around Iran's actions.
Iranian attacks on shipping continue in the Strait of Hormuz even as the president waves off rising fuel costs at home.
The pairing of the two threads — an active shipping conflict abroad and the domestic cost fallout the administration is downplaying — is the kind of framing Democracy Now tends to draw out that other outlets often cover separately.
A progressive campaign is naming former Biden administration officials it holds responsible for supporting Israel's military campaign in Gaza.
The campaign is aimed specifically at officials' post-government careers, pressuring institutions not to hire or platform them.
The administration pulled back its pick to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
No replacement nominee has been named yet, leaving the top ICE post in limbo.
The agency is blacking out large portions of paperwork that immigrants need to establish legal status.
Advocates say the redactions are making it functionally harder for people to prove status they're legally entitled to demonstrate.
The agency has ended its collection of statistics on pregnancy loss among people it detains.
Without that tracking, outside oversight of reproductive health outcomes in ICE custody becomes much harder to document.
An immigration enforcement officer was arrested over allegations he shot someone and then gave false statements about it.
The arrest puts the agent's own conduct, rather than the person he encountered, at the center of a criminal case.
Metal Injection's running column on what's actually dropping this week, headlined by new Anthrax and Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats releases.
This is the weekly release rundown — the closest thing to an actual new-music calendar for rock and metal, and worth checking every week rather than just this one.
The Australian hard rock band worked with legendary producer Mutt Lange on their upcoming self-titled release.
Lange's production credits go back to AC/DC's biggest records, so pairing him with Airbourne is a pretty direct nod to that lineage.
Papa Roach pulled out of their Louder Than Life festival set in Louisville after their bassist had a health emergency.
No word yet on how serious the emergency was or when the band expects to be back on the road.
An interview with the guitarist on where he's at these days and why he's still doing things entirely on his own terms.
Malmsteen talks through staying independent of label pressure decades into his career, for anyone who wants the longer version.
Metallica partnered with the Red Cross to run a blood donation drive during their Las Vegas Sphere residency.
The drive is timed to run alongside their ongoing residency dates at the Sphere.
The thrash metal veterans' latest album earns an above-average 8/10 from Blabbermouth's review desk.
Reviewers point to it as one of the stronger entries in the band's recent catalog rather than just a legacy-act victory lap.