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The cold snap is here with an accompanying northwest wind, but there’s more bad news: The National Weather Service predicts up to 5 inches of snow this afternoon and tonight, with the greatest…

MADISON — The more conservative Wisconsin state Legislature that begins its two-year session next week faces a $2.2 billion budget shortfall and several tough issues including right-to-work, c…

The city will begin taking reservations for La Crosse park facilities in 2015 starting Monday morning.

The cold snap is here with an accompanying northwest wind, but there's more bad news: The National Weather Service predicts up to 5 inches of snow Monday afternoon and night, with the highest …

LA CRESCENT, Minn. — Life can be filled with a lot of noise and distractions, and growing up, it was sometimes hard for Austin Ernst to get past them.

It takes considerable commitment to run Wisconsin’s Pokemon championships, and the members of the Fuge family of Gnome Games in Green Bay have needed all the Energy cards they could find the p…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An altered power structure, new faces, old fights and an unrecognizable Capitol building will shape the Legislature's 2015 session.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The makeover at the Minnesota Capitol extends beyond the construction consuming the place. Tuesday’s start to a new legislative session brings a change in party power, too, w…

TOMAH — After 77 years, the Tomah Department of Natural Resources forestry station is relocating.

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MADISON — Several years ago, when the Freedom From Religion Foundation first pondered a need for more space, it considered selling its headquarters downtown and buying a larger building elsewhere.

The year 2015 will mark the beginning of the end of the 17-member La Crosse Common Council.

WASHINGTON (TNS) — When she learned a relative was gay, Amy Mesirow embraced the idea, used it as a teaching moment for her children, and explained how it also would be OK if one of them were gay.

To our readers: It’s time for some post-holiday maintenance on the presses we use to print your newspapers.

MADISON -- Republicans in firm control of state government when they take office Monday are poised to make the most sweeping revisions to state campaign finance law in decades.

LAKEVILLE, Minn. — A casual viewer wouldn't even have noticed. But Stephen Hamrick knew the neck of the buck in the foreground of his painting was a little too thin for a late autumn scene. Wi…

MONTFORT — A 6-year-old child was killed, and an 8-year-old child and a woman were injured from gunshot wounds Friday afternoon in the village of Montfort in Grant County, authorities said.

For educators, 2015 is shaping up to be a lot like 2014.

MADISON — Republican Gov. Scott Walker has rolled over his Democratic opponents in Wisconsin, shutting down their allies in labor unions, stuffing the attempts to recall him and handily winnin…

Monday is the final day to submit public comments on a proposed high-voltage power line that would cut through the Coulee Region to deliver energy to the east.