La Crosse Tribune Local News

The Hillview Urban Agriculture Center will host its first plant sale day, including two gardening presentations, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 7 at its Horticultural Education Center at 624 Vine St. in La Crosse.

Area artists are using an industrial-scale asphalt roller to create large-scale works of art at the Pump House Regional Art Center this weekend.

Po Too has been no stranger to struggle.

The Disability Action Network and the La Crosse Human Rights Commission will host a free community conversation to discuss how to increase opportunities for people with disabilities from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. May 10 at the Moose Lodge at 1923…

La Crosse County moved up three spots to become the ninth-busiest tourism destination in Wisconsin in 2015, according to the Wisconsin Department of Tourism.

As soon at 16-month-old Jude Schipper figured out the buttons on his new electric car, he was all smiles.

Friday was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for University of Wisconsin-La Crosse students Josh Baker and Siiri Koski.

VIROQUA -- The Viroqua Police Department referred three minors to juvenile authorities after an investigation into pornographic material.

KENDALL -- Tourism generated $19.3 billion for Wisconsin's economy in 2015, Gov. Scott Walker said during a stop Friday along the Elroy-Sparta Bike Trail.

While I was a junior in high school, I must have read “The Lorax” by Dr. Seuss more than a hundred times.

When the United Auto Workers went on strike at the Electric Auto-Lite plant in January 1956, they faced the prospect of picketing their employer during some cold winter weather.

Thursday was the first time Kerrie Baures spoke publicly since her daughter Brooke died almost 18 months ago.

La Crosse’s planning department has begun to hear from developers interested in Riverside North as the May 6 deadline for formal expressions of interest approaches.

BARABOO — We had hoped the Department of Defense’s spending spree ended in the 1980s, when it was caught paying $435 for a hammer, $600 for a toilet seat and $7,000 for a coffee pot.

Prices on Thursday for a gallon of regular gas:

ONALASKA — Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Healthcare and the Onalaska Parks and Recreation Department will co-host an open house from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday at the Onalaska Community Garden.

Competition for the 32nd District seat in the Wisconsin State Senate is heating up, with a challenger to incumbent Senate Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling, D-La Crosse, filing papers and an independent candidate also announcing his run.

The final financing piece of the plan to renovate the former Roosevelt Elementary School into affordable housing took a step forward Thursday after a La Crosse commission approved a $300,000 loan.

HOLMEN — Dave Braun and Troy Amdahl want to change the world with a word: Oola.

Faculty members from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and three other UW System schools will work together to create an educational doctoral degree in student affairs administration and leadership.