La Crosse Tribune Local News

WINONA, Minn. — Just outside Omaha, reality started to kick in — vacation was going to include a night in North Platte, Neb.

La Crosse County Family Court Commissioner Gloria Doyle on Tuesday defeated a defense attorney for a seat on the La Crosse County bench.

West Salem will not be getting $26 million for a new middle school. 

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Gov. Mark Dayton appealed to lawmakers to authorize $842 million in new state debt for public works construction, saying Tuesday it would be “imprudent” for them to skip cons…

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Covering the cost of a two-year college education for students in vocational and technical programs would help fill worker shortages across Minnesota, a Democratic state sena…

MADISON (AP) — Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s staff considered making a lobbyist for a company seeking to dig an iron mine in Wisconsin the state Department of Natural Resources’ deputy secret…

Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Anna Becker has earned a six-year term on the bench following Tuesday’s spring election.

MADISON, Wis. — Voters have approved a constitutional amendment changing the way the chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court is chosen.

There will be a new face on the La Crosse School Board.

La Crosse County Family Court Commissioner Gloria Doyle on Tuesday defeated a defense attorney for a seat on the La Crosse County bench. 

BLACK RIVER FALLS — The referendum to either keep the Black River Falls Police Department or contract with the county for law enforcement was too close to call on election night.

MADISON, Wis. — Justice Ann Walsh Bradley won re-election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday, easily defeating Rock County Circuit Judge James Daley and conservatives who wanted to incr…

MADISON — Justice Ann Walsh Bradley has been re-elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

DRESBACH, Minn. -- You will be able to cross the new Dresbach Bridge when you come to it — if you are eastbound on Interstate 90 — this fall.

Anna Zierfus, 31, of 207 Rose St., No. 5, was charged Tuesday as a fugitive. Zierfus is wanted in Winnebago County, Ill., for drug possession and theft, according to the complaint.David Johnso…

Two Jackson County brothers are dead after what authorities believe is a likely murder-suicide in the town of Garden Valley.

SLINGER, Wis. — A company that provides home and respite care to elderly and disabled people around Wisconsin plans to end operations next month and lay off its 700 employees.

BLACK RIVER FALLS -- Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Anna Becker has won a six-year term on the bench after Tuesday’s spring election.

The longest-serving current member of the La Crosse Common Council retained a seat Tuesday by just nine votes, joining two others Tuesday in winning a return to City Hall.

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