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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.

The state has approved a $750,000 loan to help La Crosse purchase land on Copeland Avenue for an access road into the prospective Riverside North development site.

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Barb McNaughton’s granddaughter is a bright little lady who appears to have a bright future ahead of her — if she continues to follow the right path.

A judge Wednesday sentenced a La Crosse man who struck a pedestrian and fled the crash scene to two years of probation.

The names of three priests who served in the La Crosse Diocese decades ago were among seven identified Tuesday as being credibly accused of sexual abuse, although none is alleged to have occur…

WINONA, Minn. — To the fellow with the now-depleted stockpile of whistling bottle rockets: There is a supremely annoyed terrier out there who would very much like to bite you.

Gov. Scott Walker's office was involved in drafting dramatic changes to the state's open records law that would have made it harder for the public to monitor how its government works, a spokes…

MADISON (AP) — The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate passed the $73 billion state budget just before midnight Tuesday, sending it to the Assembly after voting to repeal a prevailing wage …

WEST SALEM, Wis. — Nearly a month after Wayne Burkhardt was killed by a falling tree while driving in southeast Minnesota, his wife Carla and daughter Carlie continue to feel his presence.