La Crosse Tribune Local News

LA CRESCENT, Minn. — Does recycling give you a rush? If so, you’d fit right in with the members of Sir Lancer Bots, La Crescent High School’s FIRST Robotics team, which is in Duluth this weeke…

MADISON — The Wisconsin state Senate passed a right-to-work bill Wednesday with just enough votes to send it on to the Assembly, where the Republican majority is wider, keeping the measure on …

A La Crosse board will look at whether having one rate at all hours in three downtown parking ramps might be preferable to the current mix of free time and different fees that even the origina…

DES MOINES — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is looking more and more like the man to beat in Iowa’s 2016 first-in-the-nation caucuses.

Tim Byard of La Crescent didn’t make the cut in the first round of the A1 National Meat Cutting Challenge in Kissimmee, Fla., Tuesday.

BLACK RIVER FALLS — Voters in Black River Falls will be asked April 7 whether to keep the Black River Falls Police Department or contract with Jackson County for law enforcement.

The La Crosse Central High School Alumni Association is accepting nominations for its Hall of Excellence, which recognizes outstanding achievement and service by Central alumni, faculty and co…

Former La Crosse County Circuit Judge Roger LeGrand on Wednesday retried from the Wisconsin Tax Appeals Commission.

TOMAH — Authorities are waiting on autopsy results from the Feb. 21 death of a 2-year-old girl outside a Tomah apartment.

BLAIR — A fundraiser for the Wounded Warrior Project featuring a pulled-pork dinner, raffles, auctions and music will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Blair Haus Sports Bar and Grill.

Prosecutors Wednesday charged two town of Campbell men with driving a speeding car into a pedestrian.

A judge on Wednesday sentenced a La Crosse woman who broke into the Coulee Region Humane Society to steal back her cats to 18 months on probation.

The La Crosse Public Education Foundation is accepting orders for its book commemorating the 2013-14 Compassion Project that involved more than 6,000 La Crosse school students.

The La Crosse Medical Health Science Consortium has launched free online resources to help health educators and staffers, clinicians, students and others provide care to all sectors of the cul…

Rev. Dr. Michael Cusato, an expert in the life of St. Francis of Assisi and the former director of the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University, will give the keynote address, “St. F…

Coming soon to a gas pump near you: TV screens that show news clips, the weather, features and — of course — commercials while you’re filling ’er up.

WESTBY — Aaron and Andrea Kane weren’t raised on farms — and they started out with more citified occupations — but their family now is as rooted in the land as the produce on their organic farm.

MADISON, Wis. — About 2,000 construction workers, electricians, carpenters and other union members rallied at the Wisconsin state Capitol on Tuesday, pushing back against a fast-tracked right-…

MADISON — Republicans on the state Senate’s labor committee ended a public hearing on contentious right-to-work legislation early and sent the bill on to the full Senate Tuesday, enraging doze…

There should be no sub-minimum people in Minnesota.