La Crosse Tribune Local News

WINONA, Minn. — Old rock ‘n’ roll blasting from a speaker in the Steamboat Days beverage tent Saturday was accompanied by the sound of beanbags slapping against eight wooden boards.

VIROQUA — A piece of family lore and the ticking clock of mortality led June Pedretti of Viroqua to write a children’s book about an American Indian girl who was adopted after the Black Hawk W…

WEST SALEM — More than a third of West Salem residences and businesses were recently found to have sidewalks in need of replacement or repair.

Desperate times call for desperate measures — especially when your stomach is growling and road construction has pulverized the route to your favorite egg rolls into a rutted, pock-marked moonscape.

WEST SALEM — Our Savior Lutheran Church of West Salem is proving the adage wrong: There is indeed such a thing as a free lunch.

This year marks 150 years since H.H. Bennett opened his photo studio in what is now Wisconsin Dells.

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Administered by La Crosse County, the For Goodness’ Sake program provides donated household goods to the needy. The phone numbers listed are for local agency contacts, not the person in need.

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Perseverance is the focus of Jordenne Butler’s community service platform for the Miss American Program, and she showed Friday that perseverance pays off. Butler was crowned the 11th Miss Wisc…

MADISON -- Irina Kolenkina, the Russian immigrant charged with stabbing her husband to death last weekend at their rented town of Vienna farmhouse, told police that she had worked as a butcher…

Applause rang out in Copeland Park Saturday morning as Sam Scinta read the words first announced by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger on June 19, 1965.

Wisconsin’s Natural Resources Board will meet next week in Onalaska, where the citizen panel will decide on a proposal to eliminate some of the state’s air pollution regulations and on the sal…

MADISON — More than two dozen awards worth more than $124 million were made to companies without a formal staff review by the underwriting department of Gov. Scott Walker’s economic developmen…

People who want to connect with other parents of young children can explore the Children's Museum of La Crosse after hours during the new Museum Meet and Mingle program.

MADISON — Scott Walker told donors on Friday that he’s still praying about whether to run for president, even as the Wisconsin governor launched a website to raise money and hedged on earlier …

HOLMEN, Wis. — School may be out for the summer, but elementary students were still learning valuable skills all week at Camp Invention.

BARABOO — Say any word over and over again, and it starts to lose its meaning.

GREEN BAY (AP) — Eight years ago, Sarah Little of Marquette paid $40 for a tattoo on her ring finger.

ST. PAUL (AP) — The former archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, John Nienstedt, interfered with an investigation by an outside law firm into allegations of his misconduct, Minnesota Public …