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BNSF’s plans to build a second set of railroad tracks through the La Crosse River marsh has cleared the first regulatory hurdle.

The state’s top railroad regulator has given final approval to BNSF Railway’s planned upgrade of three La Crosse street crossings to accommodate adding a second, parallel line on the city’s east side.

The La Crosse Area Postal Credit Union will merge with Co-op Credit Union effective March 31, a company press release has announced.

La Crosse officials will look at perhaps charging employees to park at City Hall as a way to reduce the number of vehicles vying for limited space around the municipal building.

Ashley Furniture which faces nearly $1.8 million in federal fines for workplace safety violations stands to receive up to $6.7 million in tax credits from the state’s top job creation agency.

The La Crosse County Board failed Monday to resolve sticking points that have stalled the sale of its Lot C property for a proposed $68 million housing, retail and office complex in downtown L…

State Rep. Lee Nerison may be in the majority now, but the Westby Republican knows what it’s like to be on the other side of the aisle.

The former governor said he doesn't blame Walker's presidential schedule for a budget flap over the Wisconsin Idea.

Accompanying a Holocaust survivor to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp where she was tortured and the Nazis murdered 1.1 million people, including her family, was nearly incomprensible…

To no one’s surprise at the Minnesota State Capitol, legislators will once again debate this session whether Minnesota should end its 80-year-old “blue law” that prohibits the sale of alcohol …

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THE WAY IT WAS: This circa 1915 photo shows a truck loaded with brooms parked on a snow covered street in the 200 block of Front Street, just south of Pearl Street. It is thought the truck had…

MADISON (AP) — Wisconsin’s older residents say Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut funding for the SeniorCare drug program could leave them struggling to make ends meet.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota’s civil commitment program for sex offenders has been under fire for years by people who say it’s unconstitutional because it amounts to a life sentence. A federal…

SPARTA — No one was injured Saturday when a pistol accidentally discharged and the bullet went through the floor of the apartment into the apartment below, police said.

SPARTA —No one was injured Saturday when a pistol accidentally discharged and the bullet went through the floor of the apartment into the apartment below, police said.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has issued an air quality advisory for La Crosse County until 6 p.m., the National Weather Service in La Crosse reports.

Reading has always been difficult for 17-year-old Samantha Dach.

One of the Coulee Region’s biggest boosters as a community activist dynamo has a confession to make.