La Crosse Tribune Local News

WEST SALEM — The West Salem School Board hopes to have a plan in place for a new middle school and other capital improvements in time for a referendum on the February 2016 ballot.

It’s hard to top Rotary Lights when it comes to a romantic spot for a winter date.

Parking remains a contentious issue in ongoing negotiations for the sale of La Crosse County's "Lot C," and a November closing deadline will pass with no decision on developer Don Weber's proposal.

FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. — Slippery road conditions appear to have contributed to the death of a Fountain City man in a truck/train collision Monday morning.

ONALASKA, Wis. -- Hwy. 35 is closed after a fatal head-on crash at about 6:45 p.m. at Hwy. Z north of Onalaska. 

The early winter weather has put an end to the leaf collection season in La Crosse.

HOLMEN -- Members of the Holmen School Board are considering bringing two referendum questions to the ballot in April, asking voters to give the board the authority to raise the district’s rev…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Nearly 70,000 pages of emails and attachments were released Tuesday that had been collected during the first secret investigation into former aides and associates of Gov. Scot…

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Wisconsin rail regulators will hold a public hearing next week in La Crosse on the BNSF Railway’s proposed changes to public crossings at Main, Cass and Farnam streets.

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department needs the public’s help finding a missing woman.

The Monroe County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the theft of a mailbox from outside the U.S. Post Office in Warrens.

WARRENS -- Warrens is missing a big mailbox.

WINONA -- Employees at Rollingstone Feed and Grain were back to work Tuesday morning after a structure fire severely damaged a storage shed across the street from the business’ main facility M…

Two Wisconsin Congressmen whose districts cover Monroe and Jackson counties asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to purchase surplus cranberry products.

Representatives of La Crosse’s neighborhood associations voiced staunch opposition Monday to a study of the long-proposed north-south corridor they fear would lead to a new highway through the…

The Lights over North La Crosse display returns to Copeland Park this weekend, bringing the sparkle of the holiday season to the historic neighborhood.

WHITEHALL, Wis. — A Trempealeau County deputy accused of punching a former jailer in an Ettrick bar last year will avoid criminal conviction if he stays out of trouble for a year.

Investigators have yet to determine the cause of last week’s explosion at a North Side asphalt plant but say the tank containing liquid asphalt performed exactly as it was designed to.

Cordero Short drove to La Crosse from Chicago to kill someone he didn’t know.