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After 35 years as a professor, administrator, and community volunteer and leader, Bill Colclough is looking forward to his retirement.

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Republicans making their pitch to be the party’s 2016 presidential nominee aimed to out-do each over the weekend in arguing that President Barack Obama is a failed leader.

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FERRYVILLE — Rummage Along the River is a 70-mile series of garage sales that winds along Hwy. 35, Wisconsin’s Great River Road, on Friday and Saturday — with stops in Stoddard, Genoa, the Bad…

Logan High School senior Kendall Fowler has a passion to be a global citizen.

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.

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Gov. Scott Walker said Saturday that his troubled economic development agency "absolutely" has been a good steward of taxpayer dollars.

MILLE LACS LAKE, Minn. -- Curt Kalk has harvested walleye from Mille Lacs every spring since he was 9, when he'd pull gill nets with his grandfather and uncles.

MADISON -- Gov. Scott Walker's budget office was prepared to defend removing the University of Wisconsin mission statement, known as the Wisconsin Idea, from state law, according to newly rele…

BLACK RIVER FALLS — The Ho-Chunk Nation has been given the green light to take control of vehicle registration and license plates for members who live on trust lands.

As more than 75 million baby boomers leap into their retirement years, local hospitals are geared to providing geriatric care to help older people maintain their independence.

Several Coulee Region mothers responded to the Tribune’s request for reminiscences about the best Mother’s Days of their pasts — and their expectations for the future:

Not everyone has held public office. But even fewer can say they held public office while still in their teens.

Lovers of fresh produce and flowers straight from the farm or garden have a pair of downtown La Crosse alternatives on Saturday mornings.

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Mary Ellen McCartney recalls the moment it dawned on her that she is enveloped in an evolutionary generation that hearkens back to a simpler time for families, even as they cope with modern co…

GREENVILLE, S.C. — With a growing pack of presidential candidates vying for the spotlight, Gov. Scott Walker maintained his strong appeal during public and private speeches here Saturday atten…

It’s perhaps the most significant housing development to come to the La Crosse Planning Department in almost a decade.

The Pearl ice cream parlor will serve KIMPOSSIBLE ice cream this weekend in memory of Kimberly Graham, a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student who was diagnosed with the cancer Ewing’s sar…

RSVP of the Coulee Region’s primary fundraiser of the year was a smashing success Saturday at Valley View Mall.