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The Coulee Region Humane Society will host the annual Spayghetti & Fixin’s Dinner from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, 612 Division St.

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The Coulee Region Humane Society is hosting the Make a Friend for Life adoption event from 1 to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the JC Penney court at Valley View Mall.

Former state Sen. Dan Kapanke is poised to challenge the woman who took his seat in a recall election in the wake of the passage of Act 10, the law that stripped most public employees in Wisconsin of their collective…

As recently as a few months ago, prestigious scientific publications were still questioning whether the potential for personalized medicine – diagnoses and cures based on the sequencing of the human genome – was close to being met.

OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — In hospitals, manufacturing plants and Goodwill stores, chaplains — once designated solely for hospice patients and military bases — are helping with the mental health of employees, and, their companies say, the bottom line.

Even death couldn’t stop Rodney Kreunen from giving away packets of seeds, homemade postcards and books with colorful photos of locomotives.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A unique friendship has blossomed between a University of Minnesota veterinary student and a blood donor horse.

Talk about stepping out for a little exercise: Beth Burgos logged about 2,335,090 steps during her 1,115.1-mile trek from the southern tip of England to its northernmost point — with stops at a few of the hundreds of pubs and…

MADISON — A Minnesota man who extorted $5,500 from a Whitehall man and was arrested after seeking an additional $7,500 pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to making threats with the intent to obtain money.

Circles of Support is holding an event for new volunteers from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 23, at the Southside Multiple Service Senior Center, 1220 Denton St.

Gov. Scott Walker was in La Crosse on Friday afternoon to sign a bill expanding sales tax exemptions for nonprofit organizations that sell goods and services.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the 7 Rivers Region is inviting the community to support La Crosse’s Bowl for Kids’ Sake, the mentoring organization’s largest annual fundraiser.

A hundred years ago, it was hard to find a kitchen without a butter mold, either handmade or purchased from the Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog. For less than a dollar, any respectable household could serve decorative butter, a simple…

Christ Lutheran Red Cross Blood Drive West Salem would like to offer a big thank you to all donors at our recent blood drive and to all the people who worked to make it a success.

WINONA -- Five-term U.S. Rep. Tim Walz has maintained a strong fundraising effort as he moves toward November.

Stepping out

Tom Thibodeau’s recipe for healthy eating may have seemed counterintuitive to the health care workers and advocates he shared it with during the annual Healthy County La Crosse Summit.

Kay Lindahl puts a higher value on listening than even Mark Antony of Shakespearean fame, when he asked friends, Romans and countrymen to lend him their ears.

Council member Bob Seaquist stormed out halfway through Thursday’s closed session discussion on the city’s rental inspection ordinance, saying the discussion focused on policy, rather than the possible legal action faced by the city in connection to the ordinance.