La Crosse Tribune Local News

Tye Schwalbe’s collection of Wisconsin brewery artifacts is 50 years in the making. With pieces dating from the 1880s through the 1950s, his basement is a shrine to the local brewing industry.

Nothing could keep these 24 high school seniors down.

Onalaska-based Gundersen Health Plan and Unity Health Plans Insurance Corp. in Sauk City, Wis., have closed a merger agreement involving almost 270,000 members.

TOWN OF BARRE — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said he is even more worried about his country than when he first ran six years ago.

We are closing in on a historic event that many believe has become the bane of our existence, not to mention the fall of a nation.

TOWN OF BERGEN — A 41-year-old Stoddard man was injured when his vehicle struck a semi-tractor-trailer rig Wednesday morning on Hwy. 35 near its intersection with Mohawk Valley Road.

WINONA, Minn. — Bicycles and parts of bikes were seized by Winona police executing a search warrant for stolen property at an east end residence Tuesday.

WINONA, Minn. — Bicycles and parts of bikes were seized by Winona police executing a search warrant for stolen property at an east end residence Tuesday.

A lightning strike Tuesday led to a house fire in the Jackson County town of Adams that caused $30,000 in damages, according to the Black River Falls Fire Department.

VIROQUA — Viroqua business owner Alicia Leinberger will announce her candidacy for the 96th Wisconsin Assembly District seat on Saturday at the Vernon County Democratic Party’s annual membership meeting.

Now that spring is making itself felt, it’s time for a reminder about the La Crosse Tribune’s May Home & Garden section. We’re publishing a calendar of tours, plant sales, seminars and other home-and-garden-related events on May 27. Please include…

About the gypsy moth programs

La Crosse Judiciary & Administration Committee supported Tuesday an effort to open a sober living facility and split over whether to alter the city’s alternate-side parking rules.

It promised to be a different church back then.

Visitors to La Crosse’s Hixon Forest Tuesday may have been alarmed to see clouds of smoke coming from the city’s bluffland, but forest management coordinator Sunshine Love assured the public that it was all according to plan.

A proposal to boost spending for so-called “student support services” will get a look in final budget negotiations as the end of the legislative session nears.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Passengers are now allowed by Amtrak to take bicycles aboard Hiawatha trains running between Milwaukee and Chicago.

Registration is open for the Gundersen Medical Foundation’s 11th annual Steppin’ Out in Pink fundraiser, which will take place Sept. 10, beginning at Gundersen’s main campus in La Crosse.

LA CRESCENT -- The La Crescent Aging Mastery Program will run May 18 through July 20. The 10-week health and wellness program is designed for people 55 and over.

With the news that La Crosse County has cracked the top 10 in state tourism dollars still fresh, the La Crosse Arts Board is looking at some initiatives that would make the area an even more attractive destination for art-loving…