La Crosse Tribune Local News

In business, author Stephen Covey says, you seek first to understand before being understood.

BLACK RIVER FALLS — Jackson County authorities are working with a Florida university to track down the travels — and hopefully the identity — of a homicide victim whose body was discovered in Jackson County in 1978.

ROME — Pope Francis met on Wednesday with the parents of a U.S. college student whose body was found in Rome’s Tiber river this week, after apparently either being pushed or tumbling into the murky waters less than 24 hours…

I recall my job interview at a Florida-based conservative magazine and website back in ’08.

TOMAH -- A Madison-based animal rights group is petitioning against the Monroe County Fair's Hug-a-Pig event.

Wednesday was the happiest day in 91-year-old Mavis Kjos' life, save her marriage to her late husband, Alf.

Jon Srdich, 56, of 2555 S. Seventh St., No. 120, was charged Wednesday with possession of meth. Srdich had 0.1 grams of meth on Tuesday, according to the complaint.James Miller III, 42, of Onalaska was charged Wednesday with possession of…

Powerful storms that raked the Coulee Region Tuesday night packed winds clocked at nearly 70 mph, spawned four tornadoes, downed power lines and left residents and public officials clearing fallen trees from homes, streets and yards.

ONALASKA — Pat and Sue McFadden had been sitting in their TV room, shortly before the weather report was to come on Tuesday night, when a 50- to 60-foot pine tree crashed onto their roof, sending a large branch through…

Three Vernon County women were arrested during a drug investigation by the Vernon County Sheriff's Department on the morning of July 1.

A storm system with 70 mph winds embedded with small tornadoes moved across the Coulee Region Tuesday night, downing trees and power lines and damaging a few buildings.

A La Crosse development company’s request for $500,000 in tax incremental district funding was delayed Thursday and a contract to hire a consultant for the Hwy. 53 gateway into La Crosse was approved by a city committee.

WINONA, Minn. — Okay, call me a curmudgeon.

City officials moved forward Tuesday with a program, slated to get going in the fall, to help La Crosse property owners raise their homes out of the floodplain.

Kathy KasaKaitas wants people to know their cars are not dog sitters. The Coulee Region Humane Society animal control officer takes three to six calls every day in the summer regarding dogs left in vehicles.

When it comes to helping divorced parents communicate, Kristi Strelow has the IDEAL solution.

The American Red Cross is hosting local blood drives in July. All blood types are needed. Donors must be 17 or older, weigh at least 110 pounds, and provide a driver's license or two forms of ID.

VIROQUA — Gov. Scott Walker and about 50 demonstrators played an impromptu game of hide-and-seek when the Republican governor stopped in Viroqua for a press conference where he officially launched the state’s Broadband Forward Community Certification Program.

Wisconsin’s pollution control agency released a draft Tuesday of a comprehensive study of sand mining to swift criticism from environmentalists who say it relies too heavily on industry-funded air quality data.

Criminal charges filed Tuesday accuse a Trempealeau man of trying to set fire to a village church early Sunday while the pastor was asleep in his attached residence.