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The winning design for this year’s Oktoberfest button almost caused a fight between twin sisters, until La Crosse native Ann Garrity relented and retrieved her colorful drawing from the trash.

Dr. David Houlihan and Deborah Frasher have their supporters, and five of them spoke up during a town hall meeting conducted at the Tomah Veterans Administration Medical Center Thursday.

Dean Sanderson, 44, of 1436 Kane St., was charged Thursday with possession of methamphetamine, an illegally obtained prescription and drug paraphernalia. Sanderson had prescription pills, meth…

The digital format for this year's Badger Exam isn't the only new testing concept for students and teachers for which to adjust. Students also will have to answer a math performance task, a lo…

The digital format for this year's Badger Exam isn't the only new testing concept for students and teachers for which to adjust. Students also will have to answer a math performance task, a lo…

Michel Lauzière’s family didn’t have a lot of money when he was growing up. In order to fuel his passion for music, the young Lauzière had to be creative and invent his own musical instruments.

When Laurie Cooper Stoll first came to the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, she was excited by all of the social justice research and activity on the campus. But she thought that more could …

An Onalaska man should face a criminal charge in the Oct. 12 traffic death of his passenger, a La Crosse County jury ruled Wednesday.

MADISON — The mother of a biracial 19-year-old killed by a white police officer urged hundreds of protesters who gathered Wednesday to keep their march as peaceful as other rallies have been i…

Downtown La Crosse may be in line for a fourth new hotel, this one on a now city-owned lot at Second and Jay streets and guaranteed by the developer to have a tax value when completed of at le…

The not guilty plea of the man being tried for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings rankles Deb Markos, who was within a few dozen feet of being injured or killed in the blasts.

Area Democratic lawmakers will conduct two listening sessions about the proposed 2015-17 biennial state budget.

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse provost Heidi Macpherson is one of four finalists that were named in the presidential search at the College at Brockport, a Sate University of New York institution.

The local jobless rate jumped to 4.6 percent in January while hewing to a general downward trend as the La Crosse metropolitan area showed strong private-sector job growth.

The La Crosse Tribune would like to share your stories of resurrection and hope in your lives to be featured in the Easter Sunday edition.

The La Crosse Area Suicide Prevention Initiative will host its annual free Dance for Hope from 1 to 5 p.m. March 28 in the Radisson Hotel ballroom, 200 N. Second St.

Tomah police are investigating the death of a white male, found Wednesday morning inside a hotel.

Neighbors Day, an annual program that dispatches volunteers to help the city of La Crosse’s elderly and disabled residents with outdoor cleanup work, returns April 18 for its 19th year. Those …

A two-car crash last weekend in Houston County has claimed a second life. Dale Erickson, 59, of Houston, Minn., died Tuesday at Gundersen Medical Center. His wife, Teresa, died Saturday, the d…

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse provost Heidi Macpherson is one of four finalists that were named in the presidential search at the College at Brockport, a Sate University of New York institution.