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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 …

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.