La Crosse Tribune Local News

About a dozen Wisconsin prisoners plan to launch a hunger strike beginning next week aimed at ending a form of indefinite solitary confinement that officials use to keep order in the institutions, according to an inmate advocacy group.

A commission studying health care is just one vote shy of endorsing a privatized Veterans Administration, a gathering of vets and VA employees in Tomah was told Friday.

SPARTA -- The Sparta School District's free summer meal program has three new locations this year: Sparta High School, Gomez Park and Evans Bosshard Park.

A suspected drug dealer almost managed to hide his stash from police.

The following people appeared in La Crosse County Circuit Court:

Erin Healy, whose visit to La Crosse to help Coulee Region agencies devise a plan to end homelessness was postponed last month, will be here next week with the same goal in mind.

SPARTA -- Students, parents and teachers crowded around Kaeli Rank's table Friday morning for a chance to play with food coloring and other kitchen liquids.

Louise E. Sauer was in a baseball league of her own, reaching all-star status as a professional pitcher before the actors in a “League of Their Own” were even born.

Prosecutors say an Onalaska man accused of beating his infant son cut off his GPS monitor, stole a shotgun, broke into the boy’s mother’s home and confessed days after being released from jail.

Help for property owners in La Crosse’s floodplain could come this year as city staff investigate ways to fund a three-pronged approach to help people get out from under the expense of high-risk flood insurance.

The Western Wisconsin AFL-CIO has teamed up with Union Sportsmen’s Alliance’s Boots on the Ground conservation program to host the fifth Annual Take Kids Fishing Day from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Pettibone Lagoon.

A proposed $45 million renovation of the La Crosse Center garnered unanimous support Thursday after a public hearing during the Finance and Personnel Committee meeting.

BARABOO — Things get chaotic each summer here in Wisconsin’s vacationland, and we like to blame the ruckus on tourists. We especially enjoy pointing the finger at residents of a certain state to the south, where the land is flat…

Prices on Thursday for a gallon of regular gas:

Chapter 307 of the Experimental Aircraft Association will host a Young Eagles aviation event from 10 a.m. to noon at the Civil Air Patrol hangar at the La Crosse Municipal Airport, 2600 Fanta Reed Road.

ONALASKA -- The U.S. Cellular store in Onalaska will host a free device workshop at 8:15 a.m. Saturday at 9348 Hwy. 16. The workshop is open to everyone, and participants do not need to be a U.S. Cellular customer to…

MADISON — Cooperative Education Service Agency No. 4 and La Crosse 7 Rivers High School were among the recipients of $152,000 in Financial Literacy Grants announced Thursday.

SPARTA — A Sparta High School teacher had her head shaved Thursday to recognize the fundraising efforts of students during a week-long promotional event organized by the school’s DECA Chapter.

MAPLEWOOD, Minn. (MCT) — Two people found dead in a Maplewood motel room were a couple in their 20s from Wisconsin, police said Thursday.

Two people were injured in a two-car crash in Winona County on Wednesday.