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MADISON — Powdered alcohol may be banned in Wisconsin before the product, known as Palcohol, ever hits store shelves.

Riverside Company from Hastings, Minn., won grand champion honors for the second year in a row Saturday at the 28th annual Onalaska Show Choir Classic at Onalaska High School.

The La Crosse County Republican Party elected its leadership for the next two years and held a straw poll Saturday at its annual caucus.

FOREST LAKE, Minn.  — Opening a hatch in the gym floor at Forest Lake Elementary, Brandon Perry looked down at the web of heating pipes below. Any issue with the school's more than 60-year-old…

ANTIGO, Wis. – When the crowds gather Saturday at the VFW Park boat landing in Prairie du Sac, they’ll see Marge Gibson engaged in the easiest, quickest and most enjoyable part of her job.

ONALASKA — Suwan Vue knew only two English words when he moved to the United States in 2009: “Yes” and “no.”

LA CRESCENT, Minn. -- It wasn’t the way superintendent Ron Wilke and many others in the La Crescent-Hokah School District had hoped it’d turn out, but Wilke says the work isn’t over -- in fact…

Administered by La Crosse County, the For Goodness’ Sake program provides donated household goods to the needy. The phone numbers listed are for local agency contacts, not the person in need.

Elk are expected to arrive in Jackson County in March.

He died alone.

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BLACK RIVER FALLS — Authorities and community members are becoming increasingly concerned about the prevalence of heroin use and dealing in Jackson County.

It may not be easy to follow Martin Luther King Jr’s example, but Barbara Stewart manages to do it in her own compassionate way.

MADISON -- Wisconsin youths have a higher suicide rate, more psychiatric hospitalizations and less access to mental-health care in school than children in many other states, according to the f…

American civil rights icon Ruby Bridges will give the keynote address Monday at the annual La Crosse Community Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration.

MADISON — Gov. Scott Walker is considering whether to give the University of Wisconsin System more autonomy and reduce legislative oversight of how it raises and spends money.

MADISON (AP) — Milk sales set records in 2014, but plummeting prices are forcing some dairy farmers to spill the surplus down the drain.

MADISON (AP) — Wisconsin wildlife officials are looking for the public’s thoughts on permanent rules implementing changes Gov. Scott Walker’s so-called deer czar recommended.

Sandra Sieber filed a third complaint with the Department of Workforce Development against her employer, the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, earlier this week.

The Minnesota House has voted unanimously on a bill authored by Rep. Greg Davids, R-Preston, to approve about $20 million in extra tax credits and deductions that people could claim when filin…