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The attorney for a Wisconsin inmate featured in the hit Netflix series "Making a Murderer" filed a motion Friday seeking permission to perform extensive testing on evidence she believes will show he's innocent.

Members of the La Crosse School District and the Swanson family were on hand for the re-dedication of the field.

In this week's Eye Piece, Photographer John Schmidt takes us to a farm in Onalaska that may have found the key.

Sidewalks were littered with clothes, TVs and futons as students get ready to start their fall semester of college.

An employee of Alliant Energy noticed damage to a chain link fence at their Council Creek substation Thursday.

There are about 4,000 homes, businesses and garages in the city of La Crosse located in a high or medium risk floodplain.

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection is issuing the alert for 4% cottage cheese made by Westby Creamery.

As the start of the school year approaches, the Holmen School District is making sure students start off on the right foot.

After an Islamic center burned down in 2013 in one of the largest fires in Winona, the city's First Congregational Church opened its doors to the Center for prayer services.

The convention allows gamers of all types -- whether it's video games, board games, or card games -- to get together and play.

A new study suggests that Wisconsin's villages have struggled more with economic recovery than larger cities since the big recession of 2008-09.

Gov. Mark Dayton sought Friday to extend a little Minnesota nice to the state's declining honeybee population by issuing an executive order limiting certain pesticides that harm them, a step advocates said positions the state as a leader in protecting pollinating insects critical to the nation's food supply.

Investigators will try to determine why a house exploded in Fitchburg, critically injuring a man and causing damage to at least two dozen other homes in the neighborhood.

Gov. Scott Walker will send $4.5 million in aid to help an economically-disadvantaged area of Milwaukee create jobs, train workers and clean up blighted property.

The union representing about 4,800 nurses at five Allina hospitals in the Twin Cities area has notified the company it will begin a strike on Labor Day.

Children from the Boys and Girls Club of Greater La Crosse are spending the week planting and harvesting produce, learning recipes and preparing meals at Deep Roots Community Farm in La Crosse.

A Westby family is honoring their loved one in a special way and it's proving to be a ray of light in an otherwise very dark situation.

The Mississippi Valley Conservancy is receiving a $10,000 grant from the John C. Bock Foundation to help save the habitat of the bats.

The woman accused of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the city of Onalaska is being charged with a felony.

It's no secret that drug abuse is a big issue in La Crosse, and community leaders say there's not just one answer to the problem. Now, they’re talking about another piece of the puzzle in fighting addiction.