Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire say classes will continue Monday despite a weekend fire that did extensive damage to a second-floor student research lab in Phillips Hall.

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Even as UW-Eau Claire officials have dealt with overcrowding in recent years by housing students in hotels, their counterparts at the University of Nevada, Reno have gone them one further by leasing a downtown casino hotel tower for a year and turning it into a college dormitory.

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Gov. Tony Evers on Thursday proposed set aside money in his two-year state construction budget for an overhaul of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire's science building — a project that drew criticism from a top lawmaker last summer for leapfrogging other campus projects.

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By James Briggs A last-minute deal between the University of Wisconsin System and Gov. Scott Walker has guaranteed the construction of major building projects that had been left out of the original 2011-13 capital budget. The state Building Commission on ...

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By Jan Basina Behold the mighty oak. It’s a tree that brought the planned construction of the $48.8 million University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire student union to a temporary standstill and forced the powers-that-be to move the building site. All this ...

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By Jan Basina Behold the mighty oak. It’s a tree that brought the planned construction of the $48.8 million University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire student union to a temporary standstill and forced the powers-that-be to move the building site. All this ...

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By Paul Snyder Energy efficiency is a threatened ideal as bare-bones UW System school budgets force a face-off between building upgrades and new construction. “It most definitely is a problem, and it’s a gut-wrenching one,” said Terry Classen, director of ...

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