Eau Claire County News

The new gold? In the mining business, silica sand is the new gold. The small, dense, spherical grains of sand are used by energy companies in the hydraulic fracturing process to extract oil and natural gas from underground rock.

Drug officers say right now heroin is a growing problem in western Wisconsin but they say meth labs are also on the come back.

Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Mike Tate and Milwaukee County Supervisor John Weishan spoke at the Eau Claire County Democratic Party Headquarters on Thursday morning about the "John Doe" investigation.

Good news for Alzheimer's patients, the Obama administration announced the first of a two-part plan to devote an extra $130 million to dementia research.

The Wisconsin Department of Corrections told the police department that it will release David Frederick, 52, from prison on February 14.

Cory Roberts says he worries what will happen to his fellow firefighters after a number of towns in Wisconsin have tried to balance their budgets by increasing pension and healthcare costs for public safety workers.

Altoona Police Chief James Small says officer responded to a call to check on a man around 4:30 p.m. He says when officers arrived, the man was not being cooperative.

A new audit of the state's food assistance program called FoodShare shows suspicious spending and reported cases of fraud, including right here in Eau Claire County.

The company was awarded the Paragon Economic Impact award by the Eau Claire Area Economic Development Corporation Monday.

An 18-year-old Eau Claire man will be sentenced April 16 for choking his 15-year-old ex-girlfriend and forcibly trying to remove her from an Altoona home where she was at a sleepover with friends.

A third lawsuit has been filed related to a July 22 boat crash on the Chippewa River that killed four people.

Jesus Christ is welcome at Brown County Board meetings, but some lawmakers say they'd feel more comfortable if he wasn't mentioned so specifically.

Snowmobilers in search of prime powder are traveling to far northern Wisconsin to enjoy the outdoors.

Cooperative Extension's first agent, E.L. Luther, hired in 1912 in Oneida County, made farm visits using a two-cylinder motorbike.

A Chippewa County judge ruled Monday that Eau Claire County should repay the sheriff and treasurer money they contributed to the Wisconsin Retirement System since March.

Mark Radcliffe is an attorney in private practice in Black River Falls. He represents High Country Sand, a Minnesota-based mining company, in a lawsuit filed Jan.

Deputies arrest two men for a string of burglaries. They're accused of burglarizing at least four homes around Eau Claire County in December.

Eau Claire - At approximately 1:40 a.m. on Friday, January 20, 2012, Wisconsin State Patrol dispatch received a report of a crash on I-94 eastbound between Eau Claire and Foster.

An Eau Claire woman will spend a year on probation for huffing from an aerosol can outside a grocery store.

With sand mine companies looking to start digging; Eau Claire County wants to hear from you before the shovels hit the dirt.