La Crosse Tribune Local News

La Crosse County received 301 reports of elder abuse in 2022. That’s a 21% percent increase over 2021, which had a 13% increase over 2020.

For the first time, chronic wasting disease has been detected in a wild Trempealeau County deer.

Walk-ins are welcome to Family & Children’s Center’s (FCC) inspiring 2nd annual Bridges to Better Tomorrows event November 1, from 5:15 to 7:30 p.m., in La Crosse, Wisconsin, at the Weber Center for the Performing Arts.

Longfellow Middle School students of the month for October were:

From the sets and the costumes to the actors and the animatronic puppets, scaring the pants off people is a lot like putting on a play.

Last year, nurses in the NICU decided to have a little fun with their little patients by having a Halloween costume party. What they noticed, though, was that not every baby had a costume, so this year, NICU nurse Renae…

Happy Halloween, La Crosse! Halloween has been celebrated in La Crosse since the 19th-century. Historic newspapers reported on lively Halloween parties and the mischievous pranks of costumed youngsters. In 1940, local schools began hosting Halloween parties in an effort to…

When guests check into the Catholic Charities warming center in La Crosse, the first item of business is emptying their pockets and putting all their possessions into a plastic bin.

BROWNSVILLE, Minn. -- As the seasons turn colder, thousands of swans, ducks and other water birds will move through the Upper Mississippi River Wildlife Refuge, finding a place to rest, relax and refuel before moving further south for the winter.

The owners of a western Wisconsin company have trailers and buildings full of antique and more recent land-line telephones but there are few customers.

Are prices headed up or down? Where are the hotspots for buyers and sellers? Find out with these charts and graphs, updated weekly.

Is our economy doing better or worse? See recent changes in local employment, regional inflation and more in these regularly updated charts and maps.

Minnesota-based CHS has plans for a 300-acre project with a rail spur that would turn soybeans into food-grade oil and meal.

Travel back in time to 1692 and listen to Rebeka Nurse, played by Jessica Michna of First Impressions, as she shares her story at 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, of the “Salem Witch Trials” at West Salem’s public library.

The pilot was alone in the aircraft, according to the Manitowoc County Sheriff's Office.

The sudden change in local weather had accelerated the need for those without shelter to find a place to stay.

As the newest state climatologist, Steve Vavrus is now referencing his own graduate work from the 1990s as he investigates how Wisconsin's climate has changed.

Check out the peaks and valleys in volatile local gas prices, and track motor vehicle sales, financing and production.

SPARTA -- The Sparta Area Chamber of Commerce is hosting a business trick-or-treat opportunity.

Veterans Memorial Drive, located in Riverside Park, will be closed starting Monday, Oct. 30, for road construction, and is set reopen Tuesday, Nov. 7.