The pieces for this November’s general election are pretty much in place now. The only major remaining decision was made Tuesday afternoon, wh…
Over the weekend the trickle of decisions about fall sports around the nation began to pick up just a bit. We sympathize with the people tryin…
Our reporters have been hard at work over the past couple weeks preparing our election preview stories. We hope you’ve been reading them.
This is not an editorial any newspaper ever wants to run. The Leader-Telegram has served the Eau Claire area as a daily paper for generations.…
This week’s announcement of the Women and Infants Center’s closure at HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital in Chippewa Falls isn’t good news for the are…
We’re not particularly interested in detailing every pronouncement made by celebrities and performers. There’s too much ground to cover and, f…
We hope you had a chance to read the story in Wednesday’s paper on the 25th anniversary of Realityworks. It was a fun story about another succ…
Monday’s vote by the Eau Claire school board requiring masks for the vast majority of students and staff was the right move. But we don’t blam…
With more than 54,000 cases of the COVID-19 virus in Wisconsin — and 500-plus cases in Eau Claire County alone — it’s clear the virus isn’t go…
Many people in the South, and a few people in other parts of the nation, argue that the Confederate flag represents Southern heritage and that…
Decades before the nation’s pastime was invented, Robert Burns captured the essence of the sport from far way in Scotland with his observation…
Before his death from cancer last week, U.S. Representative John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat, left an indelible mark on civil rights in this cou…
A football team finally discards a despised and derogatory name, and the U.S. Supreme Court unexpectedly holds Congress to account for promise…
The Supreme Court took two cautious, balanced steps Thursday to clarify something that was obvious to everyone but President Donald Trump and …
It's time to graduate for the Class of 2020! View our special section to see profiles of graduates, read graduation news from around the area, and watch videos of graduation speeches and virtual commencements.
The right to due process for some asylum seekers took a beating in the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday.
The death of George Floyd while in police custody has prompted calls to defund or dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department and other law en…
Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve mourned deaths that have come too soon, had our hearts drop at the sound of wheezing or sha…
The Supreme Court’s ruling that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects gay and transgender people from employment discrimination is a historic …
Protests likely were inevitable — and warranted when peaceful — after a Minneapolis police officer’s inexcusable actions on May 25 resulted in…
Hard problems require tough solutions, and in the case of decades of tension between minority communities and police departments, the remedy r…
You could argue that Twitter has been Donald Trump’s best friend. He has 80 million followers. He uses the social media platform daily to reac…
The last time we flew out of Shanghai, China, it was 2015 and we stumbled across a sign hanging from the airport ceiling that seemed like a hi…
Not many people would choose to ride out the coronavirus pandemic in a crowded tin box. That’s why passenger demand for air travel has fallen …
Congress included $25 billion for coronavirus testing in its recent aid package and told the Trump administration to quickly expand capacity, …
Gov. Tony Evers has been a steady defender of freedom of speech. When right-wing zealots sought to limit freedom of expression on UW campuses …
We interrupt the coronavirus pandemic for this special announcement: Jump around!
As we mourn the loss of thousands to the coronavirus, we must also find ways to celebrate these lives taken too soon.
Sports stories about Major League Baseball thinking outside the batter’s box had us so perturbed at first that we wanted to boo.