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MADISON -- When it comes to cleaning up algae, raking doesn’t work. The paint-like green goop slips through the tines. It leaves the big question facing Madison beaches — how to make the water…

Xcel Energy customers could see gas and power bills grow again next year as the utility seeks to change the way consumers pay for electricity.

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — It’s a technology with the potential to ease California’s colossal thirst and insulate millions from the parched whims of Mother Nature, experts say.

FORT RILEY, Kan. (TNS) — For more than a decade, troops here have been schooled in counterinsurgency.

PORTAGE — Gov. Scott Walker on Thursday declined to say whether he would support a criminal investigation into a $500,000 state loan to a failing Milwaukee company owned by one of his top 2010…

FOUNTAIN CITY -- A traffic stop Tuesday in Buffalo County turned up meth — and information that led to a suspected drug house.

WINONA, Minn. — Winona County law enforcement’s bogus prostitute hooked another hapless john Tuesday.

Assets and equipment of SkipperLiner Inc. in La Crosse — at one time the nation’s largest builder of luxury houseboats and commercial passenger boats — will be sold in an online auction Tuesday.

All school buildings in the Tomah Area School District were placed on lockdown Thursday in response to a potentially threatening drawing discovered at the residence of a teacher.

Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Healthcare has bought about 12 acres of land south of Arcadia for $445,000 to build a new clinic, a spokesman said.

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ALMA, Wis. — A Thursday morning crash in Alma killed one person, after a car struck a milk truck.

VIROQUA — At the time of his arrest shortly after a foiled robbery attempt, the 33-year-old suspect in a pair of Coon Valley vehicle thefts had a 2-year-old passenger with him in what police s…

ALMA, Wis. -- A Thursday-morning crash in Alma killed one person after a car struck a milk truck head on.

BANGOR -- From the outside, it looks similar to pole-sheds on other farms. But inside, tractors and combine share shed space with row upon row of antique jukeboxes, and old pinball and slot ma…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Nebraska man has been identified as a BNSF Railway employee killed in a rail yard accident in Minneapolis.

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Scientists specializing in the Great Lakes are going to be hearing about the challenge plastic pollution poses for the lakes during a conference at the University of Vermont.

Three La Crosse schools earned top spots in the Fire Up Your Feet Spring Activity Challenge, a nationwide initiative of Safe Routes to School aimed at increasing physical activity among studen…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A farmer in Beaver Dam is being accused of defrauding a crop insurance company.