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ONALASKA — Shoppers at Tapestry have been having a positive global impact. by buying handcrafted items that provide income to craftswomen in emerging countries.

A heat wave is a period of abnormally and uncomfortably hot and usually humid weather.

West Salem residents trying to escape the heat may want to take advantage of the Swarthout Pool before it closes July 30 for renovations and construction.

Western Emerging Technologies students will offer technology workshops this summer in the business education building, 405 Eighth St. All sessions are free and open to the community:

Tiffany Derry, whose stellar culinary career began simmering at the age of 15 as a cook at an IHOP and came to a full boil on Bravo TV’s “Top Chef,” comes to La Crosse Crosse on Saturday to show people…

Tonight is the next chance to see Drew Knapp compete to be the next “American Ninja Warrior.”

VIROQUA — Thoreau College, an initiative to start the world’s first Waldorf-inspired undergraduate college, is starting this summer in Viroqua with a summer program called The Prelude.

Grace Jones of Couleecap was honored with the 2016 Charles M. Hill Sr. Award for Housing Excellence at the Housing Creates Community: A Home for Everyone conference held July 13 in Appleton.

The Hixon Forest Epic will be held Saturday, Aug. 6, and Sunday, Aug. 7.

If 95 degrees seems hot to you, it feels even hotter to a dairy cow.

MADISON — David Prosser filled a lot of roles: prosecutor, legislator, state Supreme Court justice. But he's likely to be best remembered for getting into a physical altercation with another justice that brought national ridicule to Wisconsin's highest court.

The former medical chief of staff for the Tomah VA Medical Center is again facing sanctions from state regulators.

TOMAH -- Storms that swept through Monroe County late Thursday night caused a portion of the Elroy-Sparta Bike Trail to close over the weekend.

The following people have filed for a marriage license in La Crosse County:

Mayo Clinic Health System (La Crosse)

Vacation photographs often capture a perfect moment in a favorite place. Send us your best vacation photos now for a chance to win up to $1,000 in our Destinations Photo Contest. The top photographs submitted will also be featured in…

COCHRANE – Heather Secrist opens her family’s backyard on summer evenings to a few hundred people.

Swedish synth-pop duo Kite (Nicklas Stenemo and Christian Berg) do most things in a big way — big beats, in-your-face sonic landscapes and massive light shows. Their first North American tour also focuses on the big, with one big exception:…

There will be treasures to find and baubles to buy at the 58th Art Fair on the Green, which will run July 30 and 31 on the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse campus lawn. Professional artists from across the country, as…

If your mission is to expand what people think of as contemporary classical tonality, sometimes you don’t know what you’re going to get.