La Crosse Tribune Local News

ROSEVILLE, Minn. (AP) — The harsh winter of 2014 brought a record number of animals to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Roseville, according to caregivers.

Fox 25/48 in La Crosse and Eau Claire apparently has settled a contract dispute with Charter Communications that had threatened to pull the plug on Fox at midnight New Year’s Eve.

Monday is the deadline to register for Introduction to the Mystics at the Franciscan Spirituality Center, 920 Market St.

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Angela Connely spent New Year’s Eve day as a midwife at Gundersen Health System seeing 16 patients and the evening in labor before her own baby arrived at 12:08 a.m. New Year’s Day.

MADISON -- The eating habits of the white-tailed deer are changing the look of the northern Wisconsin and Michigan forests, according to a new study.

VIROQUA -- Alcohol is suspected to have been a factor in a town of Kickapoo crash that sent a 51-year-old rural Richland Center man to the hospital on New Year's Day at 4 a.m.

A winter storm will move through the region Saturday night to be followed by bitter cold temperatures, the National Weather Service predicts.

Prices Thursday for a gallon of regular gas:

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…