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Renovations to the La Crosse Center proposed to the La Crosse Common Council Tuesday would add a raised ballroom enclosed in glass to the back of the building, as well as update the city-owned convention center’s front aesthetic.

ST. JOSEPH, Minn. (AP) — Boys tend to make excuses when they lose to Grace Houston.

GREEN BAY — Brett Favre had been back in Green Bay for a few hours before the moment started to sink in.

Hillview Urban Agriculture Center will host the Bountiful Gardens Tour from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, July 25.

Seventh-day Adventist Church will present two free health classes at its church at 2117 La Crosse St.

BEAVER DAM, Wis. — Artists' materials may include paint, metal, stone, online art and other media, but two Beaver Dam artists can now add something more unusual to that list -- the sides of buildings.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Researchers believe they found the grave of a man who could be considered the first black male slave freed by Abraham Lincoln, tracking his final resting place to the cemete…

Debbie Harris of La Crosse calls the Discovery Channel’s “Naked and Afraid” the “Everest of survival challenges.”

MADISON -- Stem cell research at UW-Madison typically aims to create skin and organs; this summer, its goal is to create scientists.

MINNEAPOLIS (TNS) — Starting as soon as this fall, America’s heartland could begin to look strikingly different to a monarch butterfly fluttering south for the winter.

ABOVE: Motorcyclists set out on a tour of the Coulee Region on Saturday during the annual Freedom Ride, part of Freedom Fest. This year’s ride had about 200 registered bikers, making it the la…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Federally endangered dragonflies that have been raised in a laboratory over the past several years are being released at a forest preserve this week in Illinois, where scie…

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Administered by La Crosse County, the For Goodness’ Sake program provides donated household goods to the needy.

The American Red Cross is holding a logo contest for the 2015 Dancing with the La Crosse Stars event.

“Success stories, to be happy ones, shouldn’t have endings,” Pearl Swiggum wrote in a 1975 column for the Crawford County Independent.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As the Twin Cities area cleaned up from overnight storms, Xcel Energy said about 50,000 customers were still without power by Saturday evening, mostly in the Twin Cities metro area.

Karen Tischer was nearly late for last year’s Big Blue Dragon Boat Festival.

An man avoided injury after his motorized wheelchair struck a vehicle and he fell into the street late Saturday morning.

ONALASKA — Mai Chao Duddeck, who was born in a refugee camp in Thailand, dreams big and has persevered in her quest to fulfill those dreams since she came to the Coulee Region with her family …