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Aspen Dental practices will provide free care to veterans from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 27.

A judge Thursday gave a man who led police on a 2½-mile chase at nearly 100 mph his “last chance” and sentenced him to six months in jail and five years on probation.

Armed with data showing a big jump in nicotine poisonings of children, Minnesota health officials are warning of the dangers of concentrated liquid nicotine found in electronic cigarettes.

Town of Campbell residents are asked to stay inside this morning after an early morning fire on Bainbridge Street left the area with poor air quality.

Republican lawmakers on Monday were circulating a bill that would replace Wisconsin’s independent Legislative Audit Bureau, saying inspectors within state agencies could prevent problems befor…

Now that La Crosse County has decided to go through with swapping its Hwy. C with state Hwy. 108, one matter remains to be resolved: What to call the former state highway when it becomes the c…

A number of states celebrate Juneteenth as state holidays, including Wisconsin after former Gov. Jim Doyle signed the bill recognizing the day in 2009. Juneteenth got its name from the date Ju…

The La Crosse Concert Band’s summer series of free performances at Riverside Park will feature an array of conducting styles, as well as a bonus performance by the 132nd Division Wisconsin Nat…

The La Crosse Police Department will add Segways to its fleet for a more visible presence in business districts and neighborhoods.

Local Democratic lawmakers say Republicans in charge of the state Legislature lack the leadership to resolve the main obstacles to passing a budget.

Kendal Readus, 22, of North Chicago, Ill., was charged Monday as a fugitive. Readus is wanted in Lake County (Ill.) for home invasion, according to the complaint.Gregory Loftus, 34, of 223 N. …

Authorities discovered a dead body inside a burning car late Saturday in the Jackson County town of Northfield.

A 16-year-old Tomah boy drowned over the weekend at a Fort McCoy park. 

MADISON, Wis. — The group of state Department of Natural Resources scientists that Republican lawmakers targeted for cuts has been working on a number of politically charged issues in recent y…

THE WAY IT WAS: This bygone rail scene, taken in July 1956, by Donald E. Smith, shows a Chicago and North Western “Dakota 400” passenger train traveling between Sparta and Elroy. Rail service …

Mississippi Valley Conservancy is offering a guided hike of its Eagle Eye State Natural Area from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

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BALTIMORE (TNS) — Antibiotics have been so effective in wiping out all traces of Lyme disease infections that doctors haven’t always believed people who said they still suffered for months or …

Koehl is such a confident pony that he just assumes he is a member of the family — to the extent that his owners once invited him into the house for Thanksgiving dinner.

WINONA, Minn. — James Armstrong and Kim Alan Chapman have been taking and writing about nature and culture since the early 1980s, and they recently arranged their ongoing conversation into a book.