La Crosse Tribune Local News

Increased freight shipments and a rosy economic outlook have triggered a construction boom as U.S. railroads scramble to upgrade their lines. But while major investments by BNSF and Canadian P…

Gizmo Marie is a 3-year-old spayed domestic shorthaired cat who is current on her vaccinations. She needs a home that will be patient with her at first because it does take her some time to ad…

BNSF’s plans to add a second set of tracks through the La Crosse River marsh might face one additional obstacle: a pair of bald eagles nesting near the tracks.

The La Crosse Fire Department is investigating the cause of a kitchen fire early Saturday that displaced two adults living at 412 Liberty St.

BRICE PRAIRIE — The hundreds of anglers trying to lure a prize catch out of Lake Onalaska Saturday agreed on two things: The fish weren’t cooperating, but the weather was.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the 7 Rivers Region received a $45,000 grant from the Otto Bremer Foundation to fund youth mentoring programs in La Crosse County.

A little over a year after blazing the trail as the county’s first municipality to go to an automated waste collection system, Onalaska is counting the move as a big success.

The mother of a child abuse victim testified Friday that May 18, 2013, was the best day of her life.

Tim Byard is primed for his trip to Florida next week, with his stocking cap, five layers of clothing and a pair of gloves — but the duds are not for the 81-degree high temperature predicted w…

VIROQUA — Vernon Memorial Healthcare in Viroqua will unveil its new therapy department during a ceremony at 3 p.m. Monday, followed by a ribbon cutting.

MADISON — Gov. Scott Walker backed a surprise move Friday by Republican legislators to quickly vote on making Wisconsin a right-to-work state, an action the likely 2016 presidential candidate …

MADISON — Gov. Scott Walker backed a surprise move Friday by Republican legislators to quickly vote on making Wisconsin a right-to-work state, an action the likely 2016 presidential candidate …

Though a special city meeting has been set for Monday, La Crosse city and county officials still appear at an impasse over terms on what each commits to do for a proposed $68 million housing, …

This painting, signed by Charles Waldo Jenkins (1821-96) and dated 1848, is of Fredericka Augusta Levey (1820-90).

The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau basketball season was filled with exciting games — from high school down to fourth grade.

I’d like to thank the man who picked me up off the driveway recently at Optical Fashions after a nasty fall. Thankfully I felt better the next day. I’d also like to thank the people at Optical…

I would like thank the employee at Culver’s on Mormon Coulee Road who shined a little a ray of sunshine on me during a very dark day.

First responders are the invisible angels of our community who make themselves available to answer calls any time day or night, exemplifying "love thy neighbor."

The day before Valentine’s Day, while shopping at Festival Foods along Copeland Avenue, I commented on the beauty of the flowers in a young man's cart, saying they reminded me of my late husba…

Many snowmobile trails in La Crosse County opened Friday morning for the first time this season, ending snowmobilers’ agony over one of the tardiest openings in recent memory.