La Crosse Tribune Local News

The American Association of University Women recently awarded scholarships and grants funded by the profits from the AAUW Art Fair on the Green, the last weekend in July on the UW-La Crosse campus.

SPARTA — Two Idaho men accused in the March 11 stabbing death of a Tomah man pleaded not guilty Friday during their arraignments.

CALEDONIA, Minn. — A jury on Friday acquitted a former Houston County jailer of sexually assaulting an inmate.

State and local health inspectors found 100 health code violations — 44 of them critical — at 34 area eateries during April.

State and local health inspectors found 100 health code violations — 44 of them critical — at 34 area eateries during April.

WINONA -- The arrest of two boys in a Winona garage may be the end of a mini-crime wave in two communities.

PORTAGE, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday he would be “pleased” if a repeal of Wisconsin’s prevailing wage law were a part of the state budget, but he’d also be satisfied with significan…

MADISON -- Up to $800 million could be spent over the next 10 years to expand the taxpayer-funded statewide school voucher program as proposed by GOP lawmakers, according to a new legislative memo.

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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Prices Thursday for a gallon of regular gas: