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Charter Communications cable subscribers may start the new year with blank screens on Fox 25/48 in La Crosse and Eau Claire because of a contract dispute between Charter and Fox.

It was a year of mysteries. To list some of the more baffling ones: A huge airliner simply vanished, and to this day nobody has any idea what happened to it, despite literally thousands of hou…

WINONA, Minn. -- Winona County commissioner Steve Jacob is close to a deal with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to purchase a sliver of land in Whitewater State Park he built his…

WINONA — A Boxing Day search warrant sent five people to jail for possession of synthetic drugs and other charges.

As years go, it wasn’t the worst.

MILWAUKEE — Wisconsin court officials who allow people to make copies of records with cellphone cameras and scanners shouldn’t charge them, according to a legal opinion Attorney General J.B. V…

Government offices in La Crosse will be closed Thursday, and some also will be closed today, for the New Year’s holiday. A partial holiday schedule includes:

Tribune Person of the Year

Beau Gamez was so intent on making a grand entry into the world that he popped out in the front seat of his parents’ GMC Terrain on Rose Street in La Crosse.

MADISON (AP) — Wisconsin’s elections and ethics agency refuted in a court filing Monday claims that it had improperly participated in a campaign finance investigation into Gov. Scott Walker an…

TOWN OF ARCADIA — A 400-acre farm in Trempealeau County once sought for its mining potential has been permanently protected from development.

Salvation Army officials’ spirits lifted Tuesday when a $50,000 check landed from the anonymous donor who promised to match up to that amount collected in Red Kettles on Dec. 13.

Eric Koula is appealing his conviction for the 2010 murders of his parents.

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — The Federal Elections Commission has asked an incoming Wisconsin representative to clarify his post-election congressional campaign finance records.

Rocky Borck, 48, of Hokah, Minn., was charged Tuesday with operating a motor vehicle without the owner's consent and hit-and-run. Borck on Dec. 20 took a car and crashed it into another vehic…

Chart Energy announced Tuesday it is laying off 55 workers at its La Crosse plant and will forego a tax rebate on its recent expansion there.

Many of the major decisions looming for La Crosse County officials in 2015 will wrap up work started this year.

MADISON – Average residential customers of the Arcadia Electric and Water Utility will be paying about 12 percent more or an additional $5.69 per month for electricity, according to an order t…

The YWCA of the Coulee Region announced Monday that its Truancy Intervention Program received a $25,000 grant from the Otto Bremer Foundation. The grant allows the YWCA of the Coulee Region to…

Kristina Short, 38, of Houston, Minn., was charged Monday with felony bail jumping and retail theft. Short stole a television antenna and other items from Walgreens on Friday and violated her…