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MADISON — Several years ago, when the Freedom From Religion Foundation first pondered a need for more space, it considered selling its headquarters downtown and buying a larger building elsewhere.

The year 2015 will mark the beginning of the end of the 17-member La Crosse Common Council.

WASHINGTON (TNS) — When she learned a relative was gay, Amy Mesirow embraced the idea, used it as a teaching moment for her children, and explained how it also would be OK if one of them were gay.

To our readers: It’s time for some post-holiday maintenance on the presses we use to print your newspapers.

MADISON -- Republicans in firm control of state government when they take office Monday are poised to make the most sweeping revisions to state campaign finance law in decades.

LAKEVILLE, Minn. — A casual viewer wouldn't even have noticed. But Stephen Hamrick knew the neck of the buck in the foreground of his painting was a little too thin for a late autumn scene. Wi…

MONTFORT — A 6-year-old child was killed, and an 8-year-old child and a woman were injured from gunshot wounds Friday afternoon in the village of Montfort in Grant County, authorities said.

For educators, 2015 is shaping up to be a lot like 2014.

MADISON — Republican Gov. Scott Walker has rolled over his Democratic opponents in Wisconsin, shutting down their allies in labor unions, stuffing the attempts to recall him and handily winnin…

Monday is the final day to submit public comments on a proposed high-voltage power line that would cut through the Coulee Region to deliver energy to the east.

On behalf of the residents at Hillview Health Care Center, I would like to thank the entire La Crosse community for their generosity this Christmas.

I would like to thank the staff members at Fiesta Mexicana for the delicious Mexican dinner they served on Christmas. The atmosphere and service were superb, and they helped make Christmas special.

There have been reports recently about health care delivery problems at Veterans Administration facilities across the country. It might be true that there have been problems; however, I have b…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — In Rep. Greg Davids’ perfect world, legislation he steers into law this year would jettison a new fourth bracket on Minnesota’s income tax and phase out a statewide prop…

MAIDSON — A series of tax reform roundtables Gov. Scott Walker’s administration conducted a year ago resulted in a fairly predictable 19-page report last month. (Spoiler alert: The public thin…

Turn out the lights, the party’s over.

MILWAUKEE (TNS) -- In what has become an increasingly common phenomenon, a Milwaukee woman had to face having nude and seminude photos of her posted on the Internet in April as collateral dama…

ROSEVILLE, Minn. (AP) — The harsh winter of 2014 brought a record number of animals to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Roseville, according to caregivers.

Fox 25/48 in La Crosse and Eau Claire apparently has settled a contract dispute with Charter Communications that had threatened to pull the plug on Fox at midnight New Year’s Eve.