La Crosse Tribune Local News

Nothing lasts forever.

The La Crosse County Health Department’s 14-week Smart Seniors Program starts Friday, Aug. 19, at the Black River Beach Neighborhood Center, 1433 Rose St. Sessions run from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Fridays.

The La Crosse Vet Center, 20 Copeland Ave., will host two sessions to address readjustment issues for people who have served in a combat zone as well as their families and friends.

Trails in both upper and lower Hixon Forest will be closed to visitors Saturday and Sunday to make way for the Hixon Forest Epic event hosted by the La Crosse Parks and Rec Department and Grand Bluff Running. The parks…

WINONA, Minn. -- The body of Terry Allen Block, 60, of Winona, was recovered from Gilmore Creek Monday evening.

Most families are happy to donate a can of soup, a bag of clothes or school supplies to community drives. However, some of the items requested most by homeless girls and women — feminine hygiene products — are harder to…

Downtown La Crosse is no longer for the birds, or at least not the pigeons.

La Crosse isn’t a bad place to experience heart failure, with both Gundersen Health System and Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Healthcare getting atta-boys for handling faulty tickers in U.S. News and World Report’s annual list of the best hospitals in…

TOMAH — The effects of beverages on weight and diabetes control will be the topic of the free Diabetes Education Program from 9 to 10 a.m. Aug. 30 at Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Healthcare in Tomah.

The two Republicans vying to run for Wisconsin’s 32nd District Senate seat are approaching the race from different career paths, politically speaking.

State Sen. Jennifer Shilling touted her experience as the Democratic leader in the Wisconsin as she prepared to take on political newcomer Jared Landry of La Farge in the Aug. 9 primary.

TOMAH -- The idling of the Unimin Corp. sand mining facility in Tunnel City was short-lived.

These people appeared in La Crosse County Circuit Court:

Jim Hightower, New York Times best-selling author, former Texas agriculture commissioner and a national progressive radio commentator, is coming to the Cavalier Theater, 114 Fifth Ave. N., for a get-out-the-vote event and discussion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The event runs…

Actor Sean Astin (“Lord of the Rings,” “Rudy”) will be in La Crosse tonight to highlight Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s economic plan, on which she gave a speech Monday in Omaha, Neb., with iconic investor Warren Buffett.

Glena Temple will become the ninth president of Viterbo University, officials announced today.

Authorities are investigating a house fire that killed two people early Monday in the Vernon County town of Forest.

For many farmers in the Coulee Region, the weather couldn’t have been better for growing corn and soybeans. The commodity prices for the crops, not so much.

Deborah Bork of Independence and Treig Pronschinske of Mondovi will run against each other for the the Republican seat in the 92nd District Assembly primary Aug. 9.

The La Crosse Police Department retired its first official narcotics-detection canine Monday and swore in the newest member of its canine unit.