La Crosse Tribune Local News

MADISON — Real men — and women — could wear pink in Wisconsin’s woods if a group of lawmakers get their way.

“Women’s hats may be coming back,” wrote Isadore Barmash for the New York Times in 1967.

The La Crosse Area Convention and Visitors Bureau will present its annual tourism awards June 3 at the Freight House, 107 Vine St.

The National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 59 of La Crosse thanks everyone who supported the Letter Carrier Food Drive on May 9.

Fabulous. Fantastic. Fun. These words best describes the 2015 RSVP “Who Will Be Smarter than a 5th Grader?” fundraiser held May 9.

Longfellow Middle School sixth-graders are giving to three charities their proceeds from selling coffee, chocolate and Guatemalan textiles as part of the school’s fair trade project.

City staff got a first review Friday of plans for a $7 million hotel to be built at Second and Jay streets in downtown La Crosse

Tony Christnovich, Robert Dammon and Kenneth Spirduso were set to be inducted onto the Central High School Wall of Fame during graduation ceremonies Friday night at the La Crosse Center.

For the second year in a row, local totals for the Letter Carriers Food Drive are up.

Friday morning was an emotional one for Joseph Burner, his friends and his family.

Jeffrey A. Smizek, 45, of 236 Tellin Ct. #5 was charged Thursday as a fugitive from justice in Minnesota, where he is wanted for failure to appear at sentencing on a felony theft charge.

BLACK RIVER FALLS — A homeless man was charged today in connection with the stabbing death of a Black River Falls woman.

Prices Thursday for a gallon of regular gas:

RICHFIELD, Minn. (AP) — Best Buy’s stock jumped in trading Thursday after its first-quarter sales and profit managed to top analysts’ expectations.

MADISON (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker made it only about halfway toward fulfilling his signature 2010 campaign promise — repeated in the 2012 recall — that 250,000 private sector jobs would be crea…

La Crosse and Onalaska superintendents are pleased the Wisconsin Legislature has proposed adding funding for public education, but school leaders voiced concerns over the direction of state ed…

La Crosse County will give the city of La Crosse about 4 acres of land within the La Crosse International Business Park so the city can install new roads, utilities and other infrastructure at…

Regular readers of this column know its fondness for numbers. Here is one more to ponder: This is the 199th offering since the column debuted in June 2011. It also will be the last.

While La Crosse, may be nearly 2,000 miles — as the cannonball flies — from the historic pirate stronghold of Port Royal, buccaneer Dan Kellogg and his crew of damned souls were spied Thursday…

MADISON, Wis. — Republican lawmakers on the Legislature’s finance committee moved Thursday to restructure Gov. Scott Walker’s struggling job creation agency, approving a plan to remove the gov…