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Grace Jones of Couleecap was honored with the 2016 Charles M. Hill Sr. Award for Housing Excellence at the Housing Creates Community: A Home for Everyone conference held July 13 in Appleton.

The Hixon Forest Epic will be held Saturday, Aug. 6, and Sunday, Aug. 7.

If 95 degrees seems hot to you, it feels even hotter to a dairy cow.

MADISON — David Prosser filled a lot of roles: prosecutor, legislator, state Supreme Court justice. But he's likely to be best remembered for getting into a physical altercation with another justice that brought national ridicule to Wisconsin's highest court.

The former medical chief of staff for the Tomah VA Medical Center is again facing sanctions from state regulators.

TOMAH -- Storms that swept through Monroe County late Thursday night caused a portion of the Elroy-Sparta Bike Trail to close over the weekend.

The following people have filed for a marriage license in La Crosse County:

Mayo Clinic Health System (La Crosse)

Vacation photographs often capture a perfect moment in a favorite place. Send us your best vacation photos now for a chance to win up to $1,000 in our Destinations Photo Contest. The top photographs submitted will also be featured in…

COCHRANE – Heather Secrist opens her family’s backyard on summer evenings to a few hundred people.

Swedish synth-pop duo Kite (Nicklas Stenemo and Christian Berg) do most things in a big way — big beats, in-your-face sonic landscapes and massive light shows. Their first North American tour also focuses on the big, with one big exception:…

There will be treasures to find and baubles to buy at the 58th Art Fair on the Green, which will run July 30 and 31 on the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse campus lawn. Professional artists from across the country, as…

If your mission is to expand what people think of as contemporary classical tonality, sometimes you don’t know what you’re going to get.

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Mike Hesse knows the roads of Farmington, La Crosse County’s largest town at 76 square miles, like he knows his farm, which has been in his family for a century. He has to know them. Hesse is in his sixth…

I got to thinking about baseball and suffering the other day.

Destanni Beckom bravely pedaled through a downpour on Saturday, knowing the payoff would be sweet. After taking a spin on the blender bike at the Kane Street Community Garden, her labor was rewarded in the form of a strawberry-blueberry smoothie.

Deputy died helping others -- BATON ROUGE, La. — The Baton Rouge sheriff's deputy killed last Sunday ran to help another officer when he could have stayed safe in the convenience store where he was working off-duty, a minister said…

Suspect obsessed with mass shootings -- MUNICH — The gunman whose rampage at a Munich mall left nine people dead was a depression-plagued teenager who avidly read books and articles about mass killings and apparently tried to lure young victims…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The next chapter of the “Star Trek” franchise will be called “Star Trek Discovery.”