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As part of the GOP convention, the GOP hosted a food drive on Friday in front of La Crosse Center.

It's starting to feel like summer in La Crosse.

When emergency crews arrived on scene, the 38-year-old man was already deceased.

The Republican state convention is kicking off in La Crosse Friday. It's the first time the annual gathering has been in the city since 2009.

Parklets are areas of green space downtown that take up a single parking space.

Law enforcement from La Crosse County attended a police officer memorial ceremony in Holmen Village Park Friday morning.

In his first interview since announcing that he'll run again for the U.S. Senate, Russ Feingold says he's running because he believes that people want an independent voice to represent Wisconsin.

A commercial real estate company says the owners of the downtown Milwaukee post office building are selling it for $12.8 million.

Des Moines police are investigating the discovery of a body found in a home thought long abandoned.

Minnesota Vikings owners have committed an additional $14 million toward their new stadium, mostly toward the high-definition television system.

Lawmakers have reached a compromise with Gov. Mark Dayton's administration that would temporarily prevent regulators from forcing mining companies to invest in new treatment technologies to protect wild rice from sulfate discharges.

Construction work on the CapX2020 Hampton-Rochester-La Crosse transmission line project continues Friday in Trempealeau County.

There was some concern from city officials about pedestrian safety if the devices were allowed to be used on downtown sidewalks.

More than one-thousand politicians and their supporters will be on hand.

The Republican-sponsored bill would require those using food stamps to use at least two-third of their monthly benefits to buy nutritional foods like beef, chicken and produce, and prohibit those same people from buying crab, lobster, shrimp and other shellfish with their food stamps.

UW-La Crosse political science professor Joe Heim joins News 8 at Five to talk about Russ Feingold's decision to return to politics and the upcoming Wisconsin Republican Convention that will be taking place in La Crosse.

Post office workers in La Crosse and around the country hope protests deliver a message to the U.S. government. U.S. Postal Workers held protests in more than 100 cities Wednesday, including La Crosse. They're demanding improved postal service, faster delivery times, and higher wages.

The 35th annual Monroe County Dairy Breakfast will be held June 6 at the Schmitz family farm in Norwalk between Sparta and Tomah.

A married same sex couple has filed a federal lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Health Services saying their birth certificate form did not allow them to put both of their names down as parents.

The Legislature's finance committee has decided to beef up Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare staffing to help reduce a backlog of child abuse complaints.