La Crosse Tribune Local News

MADISON — Wisconsin dropped out of the top 10 honey-producing states in 2014 after a brutal winter wiped out a significant number of hives and the continued decline of native vegetation taxed …

Wisconsin regulators are expected to decide Thursday on a controversial high-voltage power line that could cut through the Coulee Region bringing electricity to population centers in the east.

Whether teen drivers are talking or texting on cellphones or simply chatting with passengers, distractions play a larger role than previously thought in automobile accidents and were responsib…

Pay no attention to the snowflakes that have lurked behind curtains of clouds this week: Spring’s greenery soon will replace the brown landscape to put bounce in your step and spark ideas to f…

Pending an early-April vote by school families and employees, the Dakota Area Community School will close at the end of this school year.

FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin State Patrol trooper just three months out of the academy and working his “dream job” died in a shootout with a bank robbery suspect also believed to have …

MADISON — Legislative hearings are usually low-interest events. Not so with the two recent hearings held in the Wisconsin Capitol about the fast-tracked right-to-work bill prohibiting private …

ST. PAUL, (AP) — Authorities warned Minnesotans on Wednesday about the dangers of marijuana wax, and they blamed a botched attempt to make the highly concentrated form of the hippie drug for a…

With a modest growth rate of 0.58 percent, La Crosse County was Wisconsin’s seventh fastest-growing county last year, according to new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.

ONALASKA — Gundersen Health System and the Safe Kids Coalition of the La Crosse Coulee Region will host a child car seat roundup from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at the Coulee Parenting Connectio…

The city may look at a new weapon to discourage public urinating in La Crosse’s three parking ramps downtown: A special paint that spatters the liquid back on the offender.

WINONA, Minn. -- A stolen purse, the fraudulent purchase of lottery tickets, and a short police chase eventually landed a Portage, Wis., man in the Winona County jail early Wednesday morning.

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TOMAH — A man used a machete to kill a Tomah man in a hotel room on March 11 before fleeing the state with his co-defendant, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The local unemployment rate was unchanged in February as the labor market added enough jobs to absorb a growing workforce.

The local unemployment rate was unchanged in February as the labor market added enough jobs to absorb a growing workforce.

Wisconsin regulators are expected to decide Thursday on a controversial high-voltage power line that could cut through the Coulee Region bringing electricity to population centers in the east.

Freezing rain and snow overnight have prompted schools in Sparta, Tomah, Viroqua, Westby, Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton, Kickapoo, Seneca and North Crawford in Wisconsin; and Houston, Caledonia and S…

The city’s vision of Rose Street roundabouts off the main North Side exit into La Crosse got a cool reception Tuesday from planners preparing for the next phase of a $56 million reconstruction…

Wisconsin homeowners could see property taxes increase $270 million a year under a Republican proposal to eliminate taxes on business equipment.