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Southwestern Wisconsin residents are dealing with flooding, mudslides and blocked roads.

The National Weather Service has issued flash flood warnings for several northeast Iowa counties following heavy overnight rains.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office says a 2-year-old has died after falling from a window at a Milwaukee home.

An 18-year-old man is accused of luring four children under age 10 into an apartment above a vacant Green Bay restaurant, assaulting two of them and setting the building on fire.

Widespread, serious flooding reported across counties in the southern part of the News 8 viewing area

State Rep. Steve Doyle and challenger Julian Bradley have differing perceptions on the state of education funding.

If you walk into a Wisconsin hospital today, you'll notice plenty of working doctors. If you walk into a Wisconsin hospital in 20 years, you might notice fewer white coats.

A public hearing Tuesday was one step in the capital improvement program budget-making process, and allowed community members to come in and have their say on which La Crosse projects they find most important.

The CDC said more than three and a half million people live with a disorder on the autism spectrum.   

Arrests are made after several structures were vandalized in the town of Bangor.

The slightly cooler weather has some people thinking about Oktoberfest, but a group of area women have been looking forward to it all year long.

Four times each year, the La Crosse Community Foundation awards grants to help various nonprofits throughout the community.

The La Crosse County Health Department says a dead crow found in West Salem tested positive for the West Nile Virus.

Verizon Wireless is suing the City of Appleton because its Common Council rejected the company's plans for a cell tower.

The La Crosse County Health Department reports their first positive test of the West Nile Virus of 2016.

Some people who have lost loved ones to drug addiction are speaking out in obituaries as heroin and prescription opioid abuse continue to cause a rising toll of fatal overdoses in Wisconsin and across the nation.

Criminal charges are expected soon against a suspect in the kidnapping and killing a 5-year-old girl from central Minnesota.

The former UW-Whitewater wrestling coach is suing the school's former chancellor and its current athletics director for unlawfully firing him and actively conspiring to keep him from getting another job.

Members of Wisconsin's newly created commission charged with overseeing the state's ethics, lobbying and campaign finance laws were to vote on whether they will allow themselves to make political donations.

A drone that flew over Lambeau Field during the Green Bay Packers game last week has been confiscated in a federal investigation.