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UCare meetings set this month
UCare will host free informational meetings this month about its UCare for Seniors health plan options.
Analysis: Conservative overreach may explain Supreme Court’s liberal victories
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The Supreme Court term that ended this week will be remembered for the landmark ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, but it will also go down as a year when a…
Can Walker deliver Midwest votes?
MADISON — Every chance he gets, Gov. Scott Walker flashes his Midwestern roots — from carrying a bottle of juice made from Wisconsin cranberries to his oft-repeated story of buying a $1 sweate…
Prison guard suspended for joke about lynching that referenced Obama
MADISON — A Wisconsin prison guard who posted a joke about lynchings that referenced President Barack Obama last year on Facebook received a one-day suspension and was required to attend train…
Schmidty’s restaurant and bar marks 60 years in business
It has been 60 years since Arlene and Norbert Schmidt opened Schmidty’s, but the restaurant and bar at 3119 State Road in La Crosse is still going strong.
Ribbon-cutting event held at new La Farge Medical Clinic-VMH
LA FARGE -- Community members, staff of the La Farge Medical Clinic-VMH and other Vernon Memorial Healthcare employees celebrated the completion of a new 12,000-square-foot facility on the vil…
Deke Slayton Museum’s annual pig roast Friday
SPARTA -- The Deke Slayton Museum's annual pig roast starts at 5:30 p.m. Friday at Justin Trails Resort.
Walker, GOP: Budget provision to gut open records law won’t move forward
MADISON — In the face of withering criticism, Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican leaders of the Legislature announced Saturday that language added to the state budget to slash the state’s op…
Infant mortality higher among Minn. blacks, Indians
ST. PAUL — Ashlea Burns’ baby could easily have become another tragic statistic illustrating Minnesota’s infant mortality disparities.
Winona couple's Nebraska prickly pear lives on at Watkins
WINONA, Minn. — It seems an unlikely place for a prickly pear.
Smith sentenced to 18 months for battery
VIROQUA -- An 19-year-old Viroqua man sentenced last week to 18 months in state prison after pleading no contest to a felony charge of substantial battery with intent to do bodily harm.
Fine weather, big country act add up to fun at Riverfest
In a tradition older than Riverfest itself, people already staked their claims Saturday morning to prime seating for the Fourth of July fireworks over the Mississippi River.
Annual pole-vaulting competition moves onto the river
Jeremiah Burish really put the “river” in River Vault this year, moving the annual event onto a barge — and, he says, into track and field history.
Walker vows changes to open-records rewrite but is mum on his role
MADISON -- Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s office vowed Friday to alter controversial proposed limits to the Wisconsin open records law but declined to say whether the governor himself was behi…
Ben Bromley: Nightmare of a forecast for one family's Fourth
BARABOO — It was a terrifying nightmare, the kind that leaves you as scared and sweaty as a boy before his first middle school dance.
Winona man spends half-century collecting agates
WINONA, Minn. — A driveway with a trailer full of agates. Recycling bins full of agates. A license plate that reads "MRAGATE." Agates when you walk through the front door.
Forget fireworks -- for thrills, try a jetpack from this Minnesota company
LINDSTROM, Minn. — Twirling 10 feet above the waters of South Lindstrom Lake, 13-year-old Zac Petzold waved at his mother below and grinned.
Bemidji feels the hate over Paul Bunyan park renovation
BIMIDJI, Minn. -- Nate Mathews knew people were angry. He just didn't know how angry.
