La Crosse Tribune Local News

MADISON -- University of Wisconsin System president Ray Cross blasted Gov. Scott Walker's suggestion that faculty could lessen the impact of his proposed $300 million budget cut by teaching mo…

SPARTA — Home-cooked food and a yearning to explore photography prompted Carleton Dedolph to move from the Tomah VA Medical Center to a foster home in a new VA program there.

MADISON — U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin on Thursday asked that the lead investigator looking into allegations of opiates being overprescribed and retaliatory practices at the VA hospital in Tomah ta…

A lack of snow has led the city to cancel the 2015 Winter Rec-Fest Family Night events set for Friday at Forest Hills Golf Course.

The eight-county Western Region Enrollment Network, which provides assistance to those who need help navigating the federal Healthcare Marketplace, has scheduled several walk-in opportunities …

Wisconsin’s public school open enrollment application period runs from Feb. 2 to April 30 for the 2015-16 school year, allowing parents an opportunity to send children to any public school dis…

Gundersen Health Plan and Unity Health Plans Insurance Corp. announced that they have signed a non-binding letter of intent to explore a new partnership.

A La Crosse County man was charged Thursday with felony reckless endangering safety after police say he tried to chase down two men he believed had trespassed on his land.

La Crosse police are looking for a man who robbed a North Side bar Wednesday evening and pistol-whipped three people.

Prices Thursday for a gallon of regular gas:

The body of a missing 23-year-old La Crosse man was found on the banks of the Wisconsin River at noon today.

DAKOTA, Minn — The Dakota Area Community School Board of Directors is scheduled to hold an emergency meeting today to make a quick plan for getting out of debt.

A man who confessed to leading police on a high-speed chase through La Crosse County with a dead taxi driver in the trunk of a stolen cab was sentenced Thursday to serve 50 years in prison.

La Crosse police are investigating what led a man to walk into the Mississippi River off the Seventh Street boat landing Thursday afternoon.

MADISON — Unity Health Plans Insurance Corp. and Gundersen Health Plan are exploring a partnership, the organizations announced Thursday.

The Pump House Regional Arts Center invites artists to apply for 2015-16 juried exhibition season.

WHITEHALL — A man charged in a Trempealeau County attempted homicide case stopped his plea hearing in the case this morning after he accused the district attorney of “trying to use this one hi…

Tuition at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse has risen almost in lockstep with the decline in state financial support since 2002.

WESTBY — Volunteers have been busy putting the finishing touches on the ski hill for the 92nd annual Snowflake Ski Jump set for Friday and Saturday in Timber Coulee outside Westby.

MADISON — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday that he is seriously considering running for president because he sees gaps in the field of likely Republican candidates, and that he doesn…