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The mystery about the word "DIE" once thought to be painted on a boulder 500 feet over Devil's Lake may be related to the intentional removal of centuries-old lichen.

Thunderstorms swept through the region early Sunday, dropping nearly 1 inch of rain in the La Crosse area up to more than 2 inches in Allamakee County in Iowa and Fillmore County in Minnesota.

When Mary Kendhammer moved to West Salem in 1982, the village’s garden club had just celebrated its 40th anniversary.

MELROSE, Wis. -- Melrose’s main street has been beautified this summer with hanging flower baskets.

The Coon Valley Business Association and the La Crosse Trout Association are sponsoring Coon Creek Trout Fest on Saturday.

VIROQUA, Wis. — Sofya Hundt has woven a life rich in all of the details that make up Viroqua although she was born and raised in Azerbaijan.

The oven is a remnant from when the park was a Unitarian retreat more than 100 years ago.

Despite a slump in the U.S. oil industry, Wisconsin frac sand producers are planning to spend millions of dollars on new plants and loading facilities as they seek to increase efficiency and sell their product in new markets.

Would-be stand-up comedians should be aware that they are setting themselves up to fail, and they need thick skin to endure the sounds of silence when they expect peals of laughter, according to a couple of La Crosse comics who…

Our relatively pleasant summer of 2016 is a far cry from the deadly heat of 80 summers ago.

The Ferryville Tourism Council and Mississippi Valley Conservancy are hosting a hike at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, July 23, at Sugar Creek Bluff in Ferryville as part of the annual River Bluff Daze celebration.

As the first group of racers took off and I rolled up to the start line, I felt the butterflies.

Karla Mees didn’t flinch when she learned she had breast cancer: “I had an intuition. A coworker offered to come in and cry with me, but I didn’t cry. I said, ‘I’ve got this’ and I moved on.”

My moment of pork epiphany came after the first bite hit my mouth.

MADISON — When the Republican National Convention opens Monday in Cleveland, Wisconsin’s power trio — Scott Walker, Paul Ryan and Reince Priebus — and other state Republicans will again play prominent roles, but this time with a fractured party hoping…

BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. (AP) — Wildlife officials say a second herd of elk from Kentucky has been released in west-central Wisconsin.

Food science is a little bizarre.

The Houston Nature Center is hosting nature sessions for children, teens and adults in Trailhead Park, Houston.

If Country Jam — the annual three-day musical extravaganza held outside Eau Claire — had a Hall of Fame, it’s a good bet that the hard-working duo LoCash would be one of the first inductees.

This Navy officer’s hat was part of Cmdr. Howard Nestingen’s World War II Navy dress uniform.