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My granddaughter and I were shopping March 20 at Ace Hardware on the city's South Side. At the register, the cashier asked my granddaughter how old she was. She said she was 2 but was going to…

The process of creating a new $68 million housing, retail and office complex in downtown La Crosse will begin Monday with the closing of Lot C.

Three local legislators will host a listening session focusing on how Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget might affect education at 5 p.m. Monday in the theater at Logan High School at 1500 Ra…

MADISON -- The Wisconsin Army National Guard is being called on to perform a unique mission on Saturday, on a site that once produced more munitions than anywhere else in the world.

Earlier this month, University of Wisconsin System president Ray Cross informed system campuses that, due to proposed budget cuts, the UW System would not be able to continue paying for dual-e…

Brian Fagan will talk about his latest book, “The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present and Future of Rising Sea Levels,” during a public lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 2 at UW-La Crosse’s Gra…

MADISON — Department of Veterans Affairs officials are trying to put solutions in place to limit narcotic overprescribing practices in VA hospitals, they said Thursday, but lapses still happen.

The “shocked” chairman of the town of Holland castigated the Wisconsin Public Service Commission’s approval of a high-voltage power line route through his municipality Thursday as an “insult” …

MADISON — The Badger Coulee high-voltage transmission line will be built, and it will follow a route from a substation near Holmen to the Madison area, the Wisconsin Public Service Commission …

Inclement weather has slowed the construction of the new $28 million Monroe County Justice Center, now slated to open in fall 2016.

Signs of spring abound here in late March. Robins are returning and children are riding bikes around the neighborhood, where Old Man Bromley is using his first bonfire of the year to destroy a…

A La Crosse Common Council member will push next week to increase the council’s monthly salaries by $300 in spring 2017, the first pay raise for all but the council president since 1979.

MADISON (AP) — The English language arts portion of the Badger Exam that was scheduled to be given to students in grades 3-8 across Wisconsin as soon as Monday has been delayed by two weeks.

MADISON (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has moved 26 elk from Kentucky to Jackson County in hopes of establishing a second herd in the state.

The Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District has named Aaron Engel its new administrator.

The dust has cleared at Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Healthcare, allowing the La Crosse hospital to resume surgeries that had been suspended because of potential contamination of steri…

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.