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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.

Greg and Kathy Curti took over as the 24th reigning Rex and Queen and the first royalty under the newly expanded Coulee Region Mardi Gras celebration Saturday evening.

The La Crosse Tribune has teamed up with The Washington Post to provide another great reason to activate your full-access digital subscription to the La Crosse Tribune.

Wisconsin students are set to take a new kind of standardized test next month — one that is online, interactive and expected to be more rigorous than the annual pencil-and-paper exam given to …

MADISON -- A state legislator is planning to introduce a bill that would force anyone who videotapes or photographs incidents of animal abuse on a Wisconsin farm to report it to law enforcemen…

GRAND MEADOW, Minn. — Many of the best years of Glen Davis’ life were spent driving a school bus for Grand Meadow Public Schools.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Behind a bill to add a scant three lines to Minnesota’s hunting laws is a story of an aging man.