La Crosse Tribune Local News

State and federal lawmakers have joined the chorus calling for a more thorough environmental review of the BNSF railroad’s plans to add a second set of tracks through the city of La Crosse.

Coulee Region schools were taking no chances with the cold weather, with most deciding already Tuesday to cancel today’s classes in the face of a night and morning of wind chill factors expect…

LA CRESCENT, Minn. — It’s back to the drawing board for La Crescent-Hokah School District administrators and its school board.

A move to make 2015 the final year for the city to maintain two senior centers in La Crosse fell short Tuesday, but the future of the two facilities remains uncertain.

RENEW Wisconsin will present an award to Gundersen Health System in La Crosse for becoming the first health care network in the nation to offset 100 percent of its electricity use with its own…

Viterbo university officials announced this week that Glena Temple will be the new vice president for academic affairs and dean of graduate studies effective Jan. 31.

Timothy Phend, 52, of Mindoro was charged Tuesday with exposure. Phend exposed himself to two young girls last year, according to the complaint. Ying Xiong, 23, of Ham Lake, Minn., Boonme Vue…

The School District of La Crosse has postponed registration for the 2015-2016 four-year-old preschool program until Thursday starting at 6:30 a.m. due to the extreme cold weather forecast for …

Bluff View Intermediate School principal Aaron Amundson is on paid leave during an investigation, Prairie du Chien School District officials said on Tuesday.

The Mid-Winter Benefit Square Dance will be held at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 10, at the Concordia Ballroom, 1129 La Crosse St.

The La Crosse Warming Center expects an overflow of guests tonight, when the National Weather Service predicts “dangerously cold” wind chills of 35 to 45 below zero spreading across the Coulee Region.

NEILLSVILLE — A La Crosse man ar rested for re port edly sup ply ing heroin to a Neillsville woman who died from an over dose pleaded no con test and was found guilty Mon day in Clark County C…

Residents of the La Crescent-Hokah School District will go to the polls today to vote on a $25.5 million referendum to build a new elementary school and remodel portions of the high school.

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A proposal to add $20 to motor vehicle registration fees in La Crosse County cleared two committees Monday but still must pass the full county board in February to take effect later this year.

CHICAGO — A year after a brutally cold spell was blamed on something called the polar vortex — which was treated like a northern invasion by the media and as a conquering hero by children impr…

Prosecutors Monday charged two Onalaska man in a Dec. 18 attempted armed robbery in South La Crosse.

Sandy Brekke still hopes the St. Clare Health Mission in La Crosse she directs will become obsolete some day, but in the meantime, the free clinic continues to serve people who fall through th…

A father accused of crushing his infant daughter's skull was convicted Monday of child abuse after reaching an agreement with prosecutors.

Sandy Brekke still hopes the St. Clare Health Mission in La Crosse she directs will become obsolete some day, but in the meantime, the free clinic continues to serve people who fall through th…