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The La Crosse Community Foundation followed its traditional path of putting its money where people’s hearts are with a grant of $70,742 for a host program for homeless youths.

The Republican-controlled state Assembly approved a two-year budget bill early Thursday morning, sending the $73 billion spending plan on to Gov. Scott Walker — but not without some dissent.

The Republican-controlled state Assembly approved a two-year budget bill early Thursday morning, sending the $73 billion spending plan on to Gov. Scott Walker – but not without some dissent.

TOMAH — A Tomah woman arguing with her husband has been accused of smashing a Camaro into his new Lexus, authorities said.

Prices Thursday for a gallon of regular gas:

The city plans to have partial traffic closures on Losey Boulevard starting today as it reconfigures signal lights at the Green Bay Street intersection.

Jill Billings, D-La Crosse

Ninety-five percent of Western Technical College students looking for work are finding jobs after college, but starting wages are down slightly from the year before.

WINONA, Minn. — The once-empty condominiums in downtown Winona are filling up.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Eleven Assembly Republicans joined with 35 Democrats in voting against the Wisconsin state budget.

A couple of windows of weather good for planting this spring and plenty of rain all along the way have left Coulee Region crops further along than at this time last year — and better off than …

MADISON (AP) — The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Assembly passed the state budget with only two votes to spare early Thursday morning, sending the $73 billion spending plan on to Gov. Scott …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Six years ago, a proposal for Medicare to cover end-of-life counseling touched off a political uproar that threatened to stall President Barack Obama's health care law in Con…

Longfellow Middle School student Connor Iverson was part of a team of students that was recognized for a website created about Future Business Leaders of America.

ALMA, Wis. — A train struck and killed a woman Tuesday night in Alma, according to the Buffalo County Sheriff’s Department.

The old “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” commercial from the 1980s may have sold a lot of emergency alert devices and generated comedic punch lines, but it has done nothing to address the seri…

Second Street in downtown La Crosse might look like a mess, but the project still is on target to be done by mid-August, city officials said.

ST. PAUL -- We didn't start the fire, but smoke from wildfires still burning in Canada might continue to affect the Midwest's air quality this summer.

Medicare’s plan to pay physicians for counseling patients about end-of-life care needs to be broadened beyond just doctors, according to a La Crosse-based international authority on the issue.

La Crosse residents could see water rates rise by about 3 percent later this year or at the start of 2016 under a resolution coming to the city council in August.