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The housing market in La Crosse remains strong, despite an incredibly tight inventory.

Criminal charges are pending against a Trempealeau man who overdosed on heroin Saturday afternoon while driving on La Crosse’s North Side.

Q When was the year without a summer?

THE WAY IT WAS: A circa 1948 view of Sias Isles Boat Livery, which was located on the Black River at the foot of Irvin Street in Onalaska. This boat rental enterprise, which at one time was popular with fishermen…

The end of Kahya Fox’s first week as executive director of the Habitat for Humanity — La Crosse Area found her atop a scaffold holding a window.

The La Crosse County Historical Society hopes to celebrate diversity and reach new generations with its History in a Bag series “Many Peoples, One Place: La Crosse’s Multi-Ethnic Heritage.”

GALESVILLE -- The Arnold House and Old Main are hosting Galesville’s Founders Day and History Day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 25.

HOUSTON, Minn. -- The Houston Nature Center is hosting a pollinator talk with Erin Rupp, executive director of Pollinate Minnesota, at 7 p.m. Friday, June 24, at Trailhead Park in Houston.

TOMAH — Nancy VanderMeer has an opponent in her race for re-election as the representative of the 70th Assembly District.

One person was injured in a house fire on La Crosse's South Side shortly after midnight Sunday.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — About 4,800 nurses at five Minneapolis-area hospitals began a weeklong strike Sunday over a contract impasse.

ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — Federal regulators say St. Cloud-based Gold'n Plump is recalling more than 27 tons of chicken after contaminants were detected.

Decrying global trade deals has become a rhetorical mainstay of the 2016 campaign, and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Russ Feingold is part of that chorus — while his opponent, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, has stayed mum.

MINNEAPOLIS (TNS) — Aaron Dimler was on his way. The captain of his football team at Roseville High School, he had a job, a long-term girlfriend and a scholarship worth $240,000 to study and play football at Macalester College.

UW-La Crosse is offering Business Succession: Planning for the Future from 7:15 a.m. to noon Thursday in Port O’ Call at Cartwright Center.

A sunny afternoon took a sinister turn on Saturday during the Dark La Crosse trolley tour. Tales of murder, ghosts and prostitution gave patrons a taste of La Crosse’s more sordid history.

ONALASKA — Like the upgrades on a new menu, this year’s Celebrate Onalaska retains some of the flavors of last year’s event but spices up the offerings for 2016.

Administered by La Crosse County, the For Goodness’ Sake program provides donated household goods to the needy.

WINONA, Minn. — “Some people, perhaps most people, think words are not really important,” E. B. White once wrote, “but I am a word man and I attach the very highest importance to words.”

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