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An 8-year-old child playing with a lighter started an apartment fire Saturday on La Crosse’s South Side.

ONALASKA — New documents show Mayo Clinic has plans to build a new campus in Onalaska that could eventually employ more workers than the organization currently has in the county.

Criminal charges are pending against a Tomah man who fled sheriff’s deputies on Sunday before his vehicle caught fire, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department.

THE WAY IT WAS: A closeup view of the imposing old La Crosse County Courthouse, which was located on what is now known as Lot C, currently a construction site for a future housing, retail and …

VIROQUA -- Vernon County will offer services for recycling or properly disposing of household hazardous wastes, small amounts of agricultural chemicals and paints from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturd…

The UW-La Crosse Small Business Development Center will hold a series of workshops on QuickBooks, a computer program management tool for small businesses. All run from 8:30 a.m. to noon on cam…

FORT McCOY -- The 2015 U.S. Army Soldier Show will perform at 4 p.m. Sunday at Rumpel Fitness Center at Fort McCoy. Doors open a half hour before the show, and seating is on a first-come, firs…

As the debate drones on over global warming, La Crosse County is in a pilot project to help people brace themselves to counteract the negative health and economic consequences of climate chang…

Pope Francis rankled conservatives last week when he hosted a climate change conference at the Vatican, and his papal letter on the topic anticipated as early as next month is expected to roil…

MADISON -- Tensions in a long-simmering John Doe investigation are boiling over as the state and U.S. supreme courts move closer to weighing in on a case that still looms over Gov. Scott Walke…

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The La Crosse Composite Squad earned title of 2015 Squadron of Merit at the annual Civil Air Patrol awards banquet. The squadron’s search-and-rescue ground team also received the Colonel Dion …

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Medicaid expansion has given a budget boost to participating states, mostly by allowing them to use federal money instead of state dollars to care for pregnant women, inmate…

ONALASKA -- A provision of the Affordable Care Act is forcing the Onalaska School District to take a hard look at the long-term care insurance benefit it offers employees. Discontinuing the in…

HOLMEN -- When Glenn Borreson, a pastor who retired from Holmen Lutheran Church six years ago, began researching his uncles a few years ago, he had no idea his efforts would uncover an all-but…

In a clash pitting lifestyle against life itself, the BNSF Railroad is warning anglers up and down the Mississippi River to stay off its tracks, which separate most of Wisconsin from the river. 

MADISON — Under Republican Gov. Scott Walker, Wisconsin has seen a nearly 12-fold increase in the number of people suspended annually from the state’s food stamp program for fraud.

She remembers it all as “magical,” the rides and monkeys and noisy peacocks and ice cream cones on hot summer days.

Hansen’s IGA will expand with the purchase of an IGA store in Stanley.

U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wis., has announced listening sessions with constituents in the area: