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HOLMEN -- The Mississippi Valley Conservancy is hosting a public hike at Holland Sand Prairie State Natural Area at 10 a.m. Saturday.

As the Internet has upended their business, cable companies have been racing to reinvent themselves as dominant broadband providers and distributors of online video.

Summer camp conjures up all sorts of great memories — the first time away from home, swimming and canoeing and horseback riding, learning about nature and about friendships.

NEW LISBON — At night, Sharon Peterson is haunted by a recurring dream.

BALTIMORE (TNS) — In the month after Alexander Dominguez joined Maygon Thompson’s third-grade class at Charles Carroll Barrister Elementary School, he breezed through worksheets and quickly ro…

BLACK RIVER FALLS — The Ho-Chunk Nation is moving forward with a collaboration to help preserve its traditional language.

ATLANTA — The student sitting at the front of the class doesn’t know she’s about to be attacked. But others in the room apparently do.

There are spectacular views from the bluffs over the Mississippi and Wisconsin rivers, waterfalls to photograph and wooden towers to climb.

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Foster parents Doug and Diana Zwart of La Crosse were honored last week with the 2015 Governor’s Foster Care Award for their work with children in La Crosse County.

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.

DUBUQUE, Iowa — The Julia Belle Swain will head to its home port of La Crosse soon, after months of dry-dock dismantling and patchwork in Dubuque to make it riverworthy after years in mothballs.

Crew members that Chairman John Desmond recruited to be on the nonprofit Save the Julia Belle Swain's board of directors have skill sets that make them important cogs in the machine that is th…

The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse might not see any relief from the proposed reduction in funding cuts to the University of Wisconsin System. 

MADISON (AP) — The Legislature's budget-writing committee voted Friday to cut the University of Wisconsin's budget by $250 million and eliminate tenure protections for faculty from state law —…

Josh Kuhse wants to become a paramedic.

Look for “Things That Matter” each week in the La Crosse Tribune, from the La Crosse County Historical Society.

BARABOO — We had to dodge raindrops at my birthday party this week, but one look at the headlines indicates it could’ve been much worse. At least my guests were merely wetted by rain, rather t…

The Coulee Region Humane Society will offer discounted adoption fees for select cats on Tuesdays throughout June.

MINNEAPOLIS — An analysis released Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union gives the most detailed picture yet of racial disparities in the treatment of low-level offenders by Minneapol…