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A popular river destination for boaters will be closed over Memorial Day weekend.

A popular La Crosse air show is being cancelled for the second straight year.

A Wisconsin couple has filed a discrimination charge with the state of Illinois saying that an inn owner refused to host their wedding because they wanted a non-religious service.

Wisconsin is joining a multi-state lawsuit against the Obama administration over its directive to U.S. public schools to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms matching their gender identity.

A 19-year-old Hibbing man is accused of killing his roommate and burning the 20-year-old man's body.

The state Department of Natural Resources board has unanimously approved shrinking the number of counties where hunters can shoot only bucks this fall.

An incident on Kanazawa Circle Tuesday night is being investigated as a murder-suicide involving a father and daughter, Madison police Chief Mike Koval said.

Finley Rae Olson was just six months old when she died this past January of shaken baby syndrome, the result of being shaken abruptly causing trauma to the brain and bleeding into brain tissue.

Millions of dollars are confiscated in drug busts every year in the United States.

The La Crosse center's board is asking the city to help back its 400,000 square foot expansion project, by contributing $35 million of the $45 million needed to renovate.

 UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow has withdrawn his interest from Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota.

For years, veterans have relied on officers trained to help vets better understand their benefits when they return home from duty, but changes to state funding is causing some to worry about the future of the program.

The long lines waiting to get through security can be much shorter at smaller airports, and officials at La Crosse Regional Airport hope they can use that to their advantage, especially as wait times have skyrocketed at major airports around the country.

The historic I-90 bridge in Dresbach is coming down.

The city of La Crosse is putting more money into repairs near Bliss Road.

Recent Wisconsin laws limiting voting hours and requiring people to present photo identification at the polls, taken together, amount to state-sponsored discrimination, a political historian testified Tuesday in federal court.

A Milwaukee mother whose car was stolen with her infant strapped in the back seat says she held onto the vehicle for as long as she could as the carjackers drove away.

An 8-year-old girl is receiving a life-changing gift from a special donor at a Milwaukee area hospital.

Lake Geneva police are asking for the public’s help in finding a woman and her three sons who were last seen leaving their home May 10, according to a release.

Grant County sheriff's officials said a snake that was spotted Sunday afternoon in Dickeyville was a bull snake, which is native to the area and can be 60-70 inches long.