La Crosse Tribune Local News

VIROQUA — FairShare CSA Coalition’s fourth annual Bike the Barns Driftless will take place June 26. This bicycle tour promotes community supported agriculture and celebrates local food and farms.

Pacing, shouting, hand-wringing and hoping are all part of the emotional roller-coaster of being a spectator at the WIAA state track and field meet.

Ranger Drive between George and Gillette streets will be closed to traffic Monday through Friday to make way for utility work connected to the Boys & Girls Club development.

Blue Jean Nation founder Mike McCabe will speak on conservation at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 11, at the Vernon County Democratic Party headquarters, 100 N. Main St., Viroqua.

It has been about 40 years since Hmong people began to relocate from refugee camps in Thailand to La Crosse. In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, thousands of Hmong were forced to flee Laos, and they spent many years…

RICHLAND CENTER, Wis. (AP) — When he was a kid growing up in Richland Center, Chris Pauls was fascinated with the A.D. German warehouse downtown. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, who was born in the Wisconsin town, the boxy building…

WOODBURY, Minn. (AP) — Dana Millington has done it. She has emerged from a 12-year odyssey of despair to reach her goal: building an $830,000 playground for children with disabilities.

Before Jim Hagedorn takes on six-term U.S. Rep. Tim Walz in a rematch for the 1st Congressional District seat, he’ll have another race to win.

GREEN BAY — Senate candidate Russ Feingold plans to blast his Republican political opponents while also pledging to be bipartisan, based on excerpts of the speech he planned to deliver at the Wisconsin Democratic Party convention on Friday.

The chance to criticize other people’s parenting came up in the news this week and, oh boy, were some people just unable to control their excitement.

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.