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Wisconsin voters had cast nearly 290,000 absentee ballots by Monday, easily surpassing absentee voting in any previous non-presidential election, including the 2012 gubernatorial recall, state…

Mike “T-Bone” Tessmer is a scrappy over-the-road trucker who steered clear of doctors for decades because of terrifying surgery experiences as a child — but now champions annual checkups as a …

On Tuesday, Wisconsin voters will write the final scene in 2014’s dramatic election campaign.

La Crosse County Tavern League members paid $60,012 to give 7,610 people safe rides home, according to its 2013-14 report.

Fifteen challengers will compete in the 2014 Coulee Region Chili Challenge from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Saturday  at Eagle’s Nest, 1914 Campbell Road.

WABASHA, Minn -- The National Eagle Center will host a flag-raising ceremony and brief reception to honor all veterans and active duty members of the military at 10 a.m. Saturday.

The Boys and Girls Club Alumni Association will host a Hall of Fame celebration as it honors its 2014 inductees, Josh Gates, Jenna (Erickson) Fernholz and Steve Swanson.

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THE WAY IT WAS: This 1914 postcard scene shows a quiet day in Victory, Wis., with several people gathered on a dirt street outside the town post office. Victory, a small unincorporated communi…

CHICAGO -- A locally produced documentary, "Mysteries of the Driftless," has won a regional Emmy.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The action at the Redskins-Vikings game started Sunday morning outside the stadium in Minnesota, as a crowd estimated by organizers around 5,000 rallied against Washington's…

MILWAUKEE (MCT) -- At the start of an already exciting day, long before the sun had even risen, World War II veteran Bill Johnston got a real thrill when he saw one of the volunteers traveling…

WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — World War II and Korean War veteran Neil Olson has seen swarms of rats in his life, and now the 89-year-old Lincoln Avenue resident is waging a one-man battle against the r…

RACINE, Wis. (AP) — A more than 3½ hour standoff in Racine ended with the man arrested and a dog shot and killed.

MADISON (AP) — Public health officials in Madison and Dane County are preparing to deal with potential Ebola patients.

When she was younger, Alexa Forde, an eighth-grader at Longfellow Middle School, was bullied.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Members of seven Chippewa Indian tribes in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan are allowed to hunt for swans during a two-month season that started Saturday. It represents…

When Bremer bank opened a new branch this summer in Onalaska, it was the county’s first new stand-alone bank branch in six years.

Legendary comic Bill Cosby will perform his latest show next week at the La Crosse Center, his first local performance in more than a decade. Cosby spent some time on the phone last month with…