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CASTLE ROCK, Wis. — Heather Wiedenfeld sees hope in a garnish tray.

The “king of ducks” helped lead Jim Nissen to spend a quarter-century working on the Upper Mississippi River.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Norwegian government violated Minnesota’s equal-pay laws by paying a female former employee $30,000 less than a male counterpart, a federal judge has ruled.

MADISON -- A decorated war veteran who helped launch treatment courts in Rock County will square off against a veteran Supreme Court justice who is described as well known and respected around…

MINNEAPOLIS — Two experienced adventurers who paddled, portaged and sailed 2,000 miles from northern Minnesota to the nation’s capital say they plan to keep up the fight in the new year to pro…

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The U.S. Supreme Court will move into the 21st century world of electronic communications and post all its briefs and appeal petitions online, but not before 2016 at the ear…

La Crosse County voters in 2015 will elect their first new circuit judge in eight years.

For a record 58th time, evangelist Billy Graham has made the Gallup Poll’s annual list of the men Americans most admire.

The Wisconsin Grocers Association is pushing to allow customers to get fresh beer on tap at grocery stores.

MINNEAPOLIS (TNS) — A decline in farm earnings slowed personal income growth in much of the Midwest in the third quarter.

MADISON — Gov. Scott Walker boldly titled his 2013 book, seen as a sign of his presidential ambitions, “Unintimidated.” Perhaps a better title for his mindset on the cusp of his second term wo…

NEW YORK — For the first half of 2014 the oil market looked just as it had the year before — and the 2 years before that. Oil was over $100 and drivers in the U.S. were paying around $3.50 for…

The city of La Crosse could support a bike share program, a new study shows, but it will require infrastructure improvements to succeed.

Special Olympics, the YMCA, Operation Home Front, Freedom Honor Flight, Take Me Fishing. It’s hard to list all the causes that Dave and Barb Erickson support.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A key deadline Wednesday capped a smoother start — though it wasn’t perfect — for the second year of the state health insurance exchange.

There can only be one Tribune Person of the Year (actually, in this case, for the first time, two), and choosing is no easy task. Out of some two dozen nominees, these people also rose to the top.

ALMA -- A lawyer has re-written a Buffalo County zoning ordinance amendment to create a tourism and recreation district along both sides of Hwy. 35 in rural towns bordering the roadway and the…

A Fountain City man is facing a charge of felony child abuse after law enforcement discovered a girl walking along Hwy. 35 in November in pajamas.

MADISON -- The Onalaska Municipal Water Utility wants a 31 percent rate increase to finance a $3.5 million well project and keep up with rising operating costs, according to an application fil…

The Coulee Region isn’t immune to the spike in flu cases that prompted federal officials to declare a national epidemic, although the consequences have not turned deadly locally, as they have …