New Auburn News

Electric service to 540 Xcel Energy customers will be temporarily interrupted from approximately 5 to 5:15 a.m. Monday, Nov.

A local county hopes to get a jump on the future and you can help. Chippewa County recently completed a report to identify the challenges the county will face in the future.

There's speculation that pilots were asleep when a northwest airlines flight overshot the Minneapolis - St.

The Chippewa County Department of Public Health has canceled some seasonal flu clinics because it has run out of the vaccine.

The FDIC orders two western Wisconsin banks to improve their finances. The agency says that Citizens State Bank of Hudson and Security Bank of New Auburn had "unsafe and unsound banking practices." According to the FDIC, the Hudson chain lost $4.6-million in the second quarter of this year.

Eau Claire United PTA/PTO has launched a campaign to raise $70,000 to cover the cost of field trips for Eau Claire school district students for the 2009-10 academic year.

Here are everyday actions from the state's pandemic flu resource Web site - www.pandemic.wisconsin.gov - that can help prevent the spread of germs that cause respiratory illnesses such as swine flu.

An early estimate of numbers in the new state budget shows more than a dozen area school districts will see a drop of 10% or more in state aid.

Investigative reports on the cabin fire that killed a Chippewa Falls teen indicate discrepancies in what witnesses told investigators.

A half-hour before 17-year-old Evan Bresina of Chippewa Falls died in a cabin fire June 20, he passed out outside the rural New Auburn cabin after drinking alcohol.

Officials say it appears under-age alcohol consumption was going on at a rural New Auburn cabin that caught fire, killing a Chippewa Falls teen.

The Chippewa County coroner said a 17-year-old Chippewa Falls youth was apparently buried by rubble in a burning home and died early Saturday morning in the Town of Sampson.

The Chippewa County coroner said a 17-year-old Chippewa Falls boy died after he was found buried in the rubble of a burned home.

Farmers at Windmill Dairy fed nearly three times as many mouths as usual Saturday morning.

Three people were charged in Chippewa County Court Thursday with child neglect after authorities say illegal drugs were found in their homes.

Three arrests are made following a robbery at a Chippewa County convenience store, and an employee was one of those arrested.

A convenience store robbery in the village of New Auburn appears to be a setup involving a clerk, her boyfriend and one of their friends, said Chippewa County Sheriff Jim Kowalczyk.

For many runners, the 26 miles in a marathon is considered a feat of endurance. But for runners in the Chippewa Moraine 50K, 26 miles still was five miles away from the finish line.

By Chris Vetter Chippewa Falls News Bureau CHIPPEWA FALLS - Randy Knapp, Chippewa County UW-Extension ag agent, cringes when he hears about a farm machinery fatality.