La Crosse Tribune Local News

LAKE GENEVA, Wis. — There is no practical reason to deliver mail here with a 75-foot, twin-propeller tour boat powered with twin diesel Caterpillar engines.

HOLMEN -- Retired U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Lem Genovese hasn’t been on a magazine cover or cereal box, but he will have the distinction of having his story featured on a special edition of Evan Williams Bourbon bottles.

KENOSHA, Wis. — Paul Nehlen walks from house to house in the small village of Pleasant Prairie outside of Kenosha, wearing blue jeans, cowboy boots and a "US" belt buckle, introducing himself as the Republican running against Paul Ryan.

The River City Water Ski team is bringing ballet, yoga and acrobatics to the water for its 2016 season.

Seasoned and aspiring artists united Saturday to create, perform, and add color to the community for the 2016 Artspire Fair and Sale, held by the Pump House.

There’s something a-fowl at the farm these days. The animal menagerie at Brambleberry grew by three dozen chicks, courtesy of the U.S. Postal Service.

Lisa Weston saw the number of drug incidents in her building tick up each of her career as a hall director.

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The following people have filed for a marriage license in La Crosse County:

GALESVILLE — Old Main is hosting Strawberry Time Music with Aric and Rick Sampson and Brian Shellinger at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 18, at 17094 N. Fourth St., Galesville.

Administered by La Crosse County, the For Goodness’ Sake program provides donated household goods to the needy.

Broken bolt caused Oregon derailment — WASHINGTON, D.C. — At least one broken bolt holding the rail in place caused the fiery derailment of a Union Pacific train moving volatile crude oil through the Columbia River Gorge on the Oregon-Washington…

CANON CITY, Colo. — Rick Raemisch sits on the concrete bed in a cell, one of 948 empty rooms in the shuttered Centennial South Correctional Facility. He is recalling the day — actually just 20 hours — that he spent…

In 2014, hunger drove Michelle Warne of Green Bay to take out a loan from a local Check ‘n Go. “I had no food in the house at all,” she said. “I just couldn’t take any more.”

MADISON -- Wisconsin Republicans won an elusive victory Friday as the Department of Natural Resources quietly agreed to narrow its oversight of high-capacity wells that have been blamed for drying up rivers and shrinking lakes.

More than 10 percent of the employees at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse could be affected by new overtime rules.

Barbara Wilson’s final message to her daughter was “thank you.”

The UW System Board of Regents approved the system’s annual operating budget Thursday at UW-Milwaukee.

If your family has been in this area for a few generations, chances are they paid for some of their clothing at this cash register.