La Crosse Tribune Local News

“Celebrating the Fest Time of Year” is the theme of Oktoberfest next year, and artists can pull out their palettes and drawing tools to create a design for the button design contest.

MADISON — The Wisconsin Department of Corrections is quietly preparing to make significant changes to its rules governing inmate discipline, amid heightened discomfort over the state’s use of …

A few years back, the Salvation Army helped Jeff Onsgard save up enough money to rent an apartment in Onalaska.

A rooftop terrace that would extend over Front Street to connect with Riverside Park was among the expansion options laid out Tuesday for the La Crosse Center.

TOMAH — The Tomah VA Medical Center will host a town hall meeting for veterans at 5 p.m. Thursday in the hospital chapel.

MADISON (AP) — A Canadian Pacific Railway attorney tried Tuesday to persuade the state Claims Board to hand the railroad more than half a million dollars for helping develop a high-speed rail …

Opening statements begin today in the trial of a La Crosse man charged with fatally stabbing an Illinois man at the Cass Street Kwik Trip.

MADISON (AP) — The number of students receiving private-school vouchers in Wisconsin is nearing 30,000, making the state a leader when it comes to taxpayer-funded tuition subsidies.

TOWN OF HOLLAND — A long-dreamed-of Holmen area community center project got new life last week when the Holland Town Board voted unanimously at a special meeting to buy about 4 acres of land …

The tree is up. The lights are on. The mule and the wise guys are standing around the manger. Guess I'm good to go until after New Year's.

One hundred fifteen undergraduate students, 24 graduate degree students and three associate degree students will be candidates for graduation at Viterbo University’s winter commencement ceremo…

An Appleton man is in jail on felony charges after prosecutors say he attacked two police officers with his cane.

TOWN OF HOLLAND, Wis. – They don’t want it in Holmen, and they don’t want it in Onalaska. Some don’t want it at all.

Accused

The woman accused of hoarding dogs in her rural Kendall home has been charged with animal mistreatment.

A woman died of severe head trauma after accidentally getting caught in a food-service elevator during her shift last week at a Fountain City restaurant, according to autopsy results released …

Attorneys and a La Crosse County judge are questioning potential jurors this morning as Mitrel Anderson’s trial begins for the June 2013 fatal stabbing on an Illinois man at the Cass Street Kwik Trip.

Kathy Chapiewsky left a literary legacy when she retired after a 45-year nursing career at Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Healthcare.

Lincoln Middle School counselor Tanya Vaughn saw what a lack of winter clothing could mean for a child during last year’s brutally cold winter.

A new transportation study process will need the speed of a “Little Red Corvette” if a consensus can emerge in a year to replace the option formerly known as 5B1.