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WINONA, Minn. -- Winona police have identified the victims in an apparent homicide/suicide.

The beleaguered Tomah VA Medical Center released a short-term plan for reform Monday.

Costs could reach nearly $1.1 million to realign the municipal Forest Hills Golf Course for the pending second BNSF Railway line through east La Crosse, almost $270,000 more than what the rail…

MADISON — Democratic lawmakers in Wisconsin called on federal investigators Monday to launch a probe into Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s job creation agency after a newspaper reported the trou…

SPARTA — Thirty workers at U.S. Silica’s Sparta plant will be laid off July 15, when the plant cuts back production because of the trickle-down effect of the lagging oil market, a company spok…

BLACK RIVER FALLS — Authorities arrested a 23-year-old man Monday in connection with the death of a woman found slain in a park Sunday.

MADISON — The Legislature’s budget-writing committee will consider increasing funding for Wisconsin public schools by $75 per student in the second year of the next budget, the Republican co-c…

His company reeling from the national recession, Milwaukee construction executive William Minahan launched an aggressive campaign beginning in 2009 to get state and federal funding for his pro…

THE WAY IT WAS: Young and old gather at the Mindoro Cut in 1908, while work on the cut was nearing completion. Located on Hwy. 108 between Mindoro and West Salem, this 74-foot deep cut through…

FOUNTAIN CITY -- Replace a tragic moment with a beautiful memory. That was Michael Pelley’s goal behind organizing a second prom at Cochrane-Fountain City High School Sunday for his sister, Ol…

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WEST SALEM — The West Salem Historical Society has turned its “Barns of La Crosse County” photography collection into a book.

Village to maintain Bangor peace memorials

HORICON, Wis. (AP) — A family dream has turned into a family business. The Krause family, owners and operators of Windy Drumlins, grows sustainable crops using a state of the art aquaponics gr…

MADISON — In the months before and after William Minahan secured a $500,000 state loan for his company, Building Committee Inc., there were signs that the 30-year-old company that specialized …

MADISON — Gov. Scott Walker’s top aides and a powerful lobbyist pressed for a taxpayer-funded loan in 2011 to a financially struggling Milwaukee construction company that lost the state half a…

WEST SALEM — When Gretchen and Victoria Lysne saw the funeral for New York City police officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu on television, they only wanted to help. The West Salem girls never…

WEST SALEM -- The West Salem Boys & Girls Club is looking for a new home.

Some Wisconsin Republicans entered their party’s state convention Saturday in the La Crosse Center anticipating they would see national news break — that Gov. Scott Walker would declare his ca…

Longtime Republican volunteer Pam Johnson has a conundrum: She’s an avid supporter of Gov. Scott Walker, but she would rather not see him living in the White House.