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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.

Work reinventing the Western Techncial College campus continues apace.

There’s no timeline to contain the forest fires still burning in Canada, causing dangerous air conditions in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Onalaska is willing to have part of what now is La Crosse County Hwy. S become the city’s responsibility, with the county in return committing to do more than $127,000 in seal-coating work on …

MINNEAPOLIS — Food maker General Mills announced a major move toward cage-free eggs Tuesday as part of an updated animal welfare policy that now extends throughout its global supply chain.

Dr. Eric Brekke’s untimely death leaves a vacuum not only in the Coulee Region medical community but also among the hundreds of friends and patients he touched with his gentle, loving personality. 

MADISON — A Wisconsin man is charged with threatening to kill President Barack Obama.