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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The police shooting in Georgia earlier this month of a naked, unarmed man with bipolar disorder spotlights the growing number of violent confrontations between police and th…

ETTRICK, Wis. — Clifford Blaha is a war hero, but he doesn’t make a big deal of it. So, on Saturday, his friend Paul Beseler saw to it that the 89-year-old received the Bronze Star he earned i…

With the expiration this month of a three-year moratorium on silica sand mining and no new laws in place to regulate it, Houston County officials are struggling to get a handle on existing min…

TOMAH (AP) — The director of the troubled Veterans Administration Medical Center in Tomah has been reassigned.

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Administered by La Crosse County, the For Goodness’ Sake program provides donated household goods to the needy.

SPRING GREEN, Wis. (AP) — Architecture buffs flock here for Taliesin. Lovers of the Bard make the summer drive for American Players Theatre.

MINNEAPOLIS (TNS) — A wheel clack-clack-clacks and the numbers blur. More slowly now — clack, clack, clack — the numbers separate so you can find yours and follow it. Almost, maybe, just a lit…

WEST SALEM — West Salem School District officials hope to turn three problems into an opportunity by building a cutting-edge school to house grades 5-8.

VIROQUA — Viroqua Area School District residents will vote April 7 whether the district should receive a revenue cap exemption of $350,000 per year for five years.

NEW ULM, Minn. (AP) — Clam shells littered the banks of the Minnesota River at the spot near New Ulm where a Free Press reporter and photographer rested during a canoe trip in 1998. Sightings …

Talking about mental health should be done in plain sight and in normal voices instead of behind closed doors and hushed tones, according to a new national campaign being launched Monday in La Crosse.

With the expiration this month of a three-year moratorium on silica sand mining and no new laws in place to regulate it, Houston County officials are struggling to get a handle on existing min…

WASHINGTON — The crowded contest for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination is emerging as a three-man race in its early stages.

Great Rivers 2-1-1 to play key resource, data role

TOMAH, Wis. (AP) — The director of the troubled Veterans Administration Medical Center in Tomah has been reassigned.

State Sen. Jennifer Schilling, D-La Crosse, and State Rep. Steve Doyle, D-Onalaska, will have joint budget listening sessions Monday in Onalaska and West Sale.

MADISON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday struck down a Wisconsin law requiring doctors performing abortions to get hospital admitting privileges, ruling that any benefits to women's health fro…

INDEPENDENCE -- Information gleaned from a traffic stop led police to methamphetamine house and launch a search for its resident.

For three years now, the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, alone among 13 UW System schools, has had no crime, according to FBI statistics.