La Crosse Tribune Local News

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Covering the cost of a two-year college education for students in vocational and technical programs would help fill worker shortages across Minnesota, a Democratic state sena…

MADISON (AP) — Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s staff considered making a lobbyist for a company seeking to dig an iron mine in Wisconsin the state Department of Natural Resources’ deputy secret…

Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Anna Becker has earned a six-year term on the bench following Tuesday’s spring election.

MADISON, Wis. — Voters have approved a constitutional amendment changing the way the chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court is chosen.

There will be a new face on the La Crosse School Board.

La Crosse County Family Court Commissioner Gloria Doyle on Tuesday defeated a defense attorney for a seat on the La Crosse County bench. 

BLACK RIVER FALLS — The referendum to either keep the Black River Falls Police Department or contract with the county for law enforcement was too close to call on election night.

MADISON, Wis. — Justice Ann Walsh Bradley won re-election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday, easily defeating Rock County Circuit Judge James Daley and conservatives who wanted to incr…

MADISON — Justice Ann Walsh Bradley has been re-elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

DRESBACH, Minn. -- You will be able to cross the new Dresbach Bridge when you come to it — if you are eastbound on Interstate 90 — this fall.

Anna Zierfus, 31, of 207 Rose St., No. 5, was charged Tuesday as a fugitive. Zierfus is wanted in Winnebago County, Ill., for drug possession and theft, according to the complaint.David Johnso…

Two Jackson County brothers are dead after what authorities believe is a likely murder-suicide in the town of Garden Valley.

SLINGER, Wis. — A company that provides home and respite care to elderly and disabled people around Wisconsin plans to end operations next month and lay off its 700 employees.

BLACK RIVER FALLS -- Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Anna Becker has won a six-year term on the bench after Tuesday’s spring election.

The longest-serving current member of the La Crosse Common Council retained a seat Tuesday by just nine votes, joining two others Tuesday in winning a return to City Hall.

Statewide

MADISON — An investigation has been launched into the death of an airman who was deployed in Japan with the 115th Fighter Wing of the Wisconsin National Guard.

La Crosse County voters today will elect a new circuit judge. Defense attorney Brian Barton and La Crosse County Family Court Commissioner Gloria Doyle are vying for a six-year term.

MADISON — The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is one of nine University of Wisconsin System schools planning to ask regents this week for permission to dramatically raise tuition for graduat…

Vine Street in front of the Law Enforcement Center in downtown La Crosse will be closed for up to 18 months while the adjacent Lot C is converted from a parking lot into a proposed $68 million…