La Crosse Tribune Local News

WINONA, Minn. — They cost Herbert Hoover his job.

After a national search, the Family and Children’s Center has hired a new president and chief executive officer. La Crosse native Tita Yutuc is set to take the post effective July 15.

It would cost the city an estimated $75 million to do the full “wish list” of potential renovations and expansion work at the downtown La Crosse Center.

La Crosse police are frustrated about the conduct of Judge Ramona Gonzalez after she helped a criminal defendant violate a condition of a bond she herself imposed.

MADISON (AP) — Republican legislative leaders have reached a deal on a new state budget that drops a financing plan for a new Milwaukee Bucks stadium and changes to the prevailing wage law, co…

The hottest tickets in town Tuesday were those to gain admission to President Barack Obama’s speech Thursday at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

Reaction to an Obama administration proposal to more than double the minimum salary at which employees can be expected to work without overtime pay is getting mixed reviews.

When President Barack Obama spoke in May about the challenges of growing up without a father at home, his words touched La Crosse’s Rose Reinert and her two sons.

MADISON (AP) — Details of an agreement on major budget issues reached by Republicans on Tuesday:

The hottest tickets in town today — literally, to the hundreds lined up under a blistering sun to score a pass apiece — are those to gain admission to President Barack Obama’s speech Thursday …

SPARTA, Wis. -- Several people were injured after a head-on crash Monday afternoon on Hwy. 12/27 just north of Allen Creek Road in Jackson County.

Gundersen Health System in La Crosse will host a welcoming event for 27 cyclists on an annual cancer fundraising ride from Texas to Anchorage, Alaska, at 7 p.m. today.

WINONA, Minn. — Two Onalaska men accused in a two-state crime spree face multiple charges in Winona County District Court.

The Trapper Schoepp concert scheduled for 5 p.m. today at the Halfway Creek Park Band Shell has been canceled, but singer/songwriter Nick Maas (formerly of Neon) will fill in.

WASHINGTON — There was a gathering in Majority Whip Steve Scalise’s members’ lounge off Statuary Hall to toast House passage of Trade Adjustment Assistance, the last piece of a legislative pac…

LA CRESCENT, Minn. — The city of La Crescent has exceeded 5,000 people. City Administrator Bill Waller told the city council earlier this month that the 2014 population estimate is 5,074, acco…

Fraser Baby is a 5-year-old, neutered domestic short-hair, gray-and-white cat who is current on his vaccinations. He is the type of cat who needs to get plenty of exercise so he will be on his…

BLACK RIVER FALLS — Black River Falls is adding an all-terrain vehicle route on its eastern side in an effort to help expand Jackson County’s trail system and give riders better access to businesses.

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. …

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. — Dick Leinenkugel can run — with his love of the outdoors, that has never been a problem — but he can no longer hide. Never was that more apparent than last weekend.