La Crosse Tribune Local News

Prices Thursday for a gallon of regular gas:

MADISON — The Badger Coulee high-voltage transmission line will be built from the La Crosse area to the Madison area, the Wisconsin Public Service Commission decided in a unanimous vote Thursday.

A 14-year-old boy died after his ATV overturned in a creek south of Whitehall, according to the Trempealeau County Sheriff's Department.

WINONA, Minn. -- Power was restored to Winona, Goodview and Minnesota City after a brief outage late Thursday morning.

WINONA, Minn. -- The downtown buildings in the way of the new interstate bridge over the Mississippi River will soon come down.

MADISON (AP) — A VA medical center in Tomah accused of rampantly overprescribing painkillers was expected to be a focus of a U.S. Senate hearing Thursday, with several Department of Veterans A…

FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin State Patrol trooper just three months out of the academy and working his "dream job" died in a shootout with a bank robbery suspect also believed to have …

MADISON — Wisconsin dropped out of the top 10 honey-producing states in 2014 after a brutal winter wiped out a significant number of hives and the continued decline of native vegetation taxed …

Wisconsin regulators are expected to decide Thursday on a controversial high-voltage power line that could cut through the Coulee Region bringing electricity to population centers in the east.

Whether teen drivers are talking or texting on cellphones or simply chatting with passengers, distractions play a larger role than previously thought in automobile accidents and were responsib…

Pay no attention to the snowflakes that have lurked behind curtains of clouds this week: Spring’s greenery soon will replace the brown landscape to put bounce in your step and spark ideas to f…

Pending an early-April vote by school families and employees, the Dakota Area Community School will close at the end of this school year.

FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin State Patrol trooper just three months out of the academy and working his “dream job” died in a shootout with a bank robbery suspect also believed to have …

MADISON — Legislative hearings are usually low-interest events. Not so with the two recent hearings held in the Wisconsin Capitol about the fast-tracked right-to-work bill prohibiting private …

ST. PAUL, (AP) — Authorities warned Minnesotans on Wednesday about the dangers of marijuana wax, and they blamed a botched attempt to make the highly concentrated form of the hippie drug for a…

With a modest growth rate of 0.58 percent, La Crosse County was Wisconsin’s seventh fastest-growing county last year, according to new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.

ONALASKA — Gundersen Health System and the Safe Kids Coalition of the La Crosse Coulee Region will host a child car seat roundup from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at the Coulee Parenting Connectio…

The city may look at a new weapon to discourage public urinating in La Crosse’s three parking ramps downtown: A special paint that spatters the liquid back on the offender.

WINONA, Minn. -- A stolen purse, the fraudulent purchase of lottery tickets, and a short police chase eventually landed a Portage, Wis., man in the Winona County jail early Wednesday morning.

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