La Crosse Tribune Local News

DRESBACH, Minn. – The $187.5 million Interstate 90 bridge taking shape over the Mississippi River is a confluence of man and machine.

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Catholic Charities will host an open house from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at its new Community Warming Center and offices at 413 S. Third St. in La Crosse.

A large explosion was reported today on the city's North Side. Early reports say it was near Loggers Field along Copeland Avenue, but reports are still coming in.

Holmen and West Salem high schools’ one-act plays advance to the state Wisconsin High School Forensics Association Theatre Festival this week.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Experts reviewing Minnesota’s civil commitment program for sex offenders issued dozens of recommendations in a report issued Tuesday, including individual evaluations of eac…

MADISON — Wisconsin's gun deer license sales are lagging behind last year's pace with less than a week before the season opens, according to state wildlife officials.

OK, it's cold. Not mid-January up north in Minnesota cold, but a long way from frost on the punkin' and a nip in the late fall air. Getting up to a morning that comes up 40 degrees short on th…

The La Crosse Common Council on Tuesday approved a $71 million budget for 2015 that will hold both the city tax levy and tax rate steady.

Winter's chill may have descended on La Crosse and Onalaska, but area school students are warming the community up with the spirit of giving.

The Dakota Area Community School needs $25,000 to continue current operations through the end of the year.

State Rep. Greg Davids, R-Preston, was appointed Tuesday the new Minnesota House tax chairman, as part of a leadership overhaul in the wake of Republicans retaking the body’s majority.

MADISON — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Tuesday he is seriously considering whether to get into the race for president in 2016, but he hasn't decided yet whether he feels the call to run.

The La Crosse Parks and Recreation Department again will play Santa's helpers this season to relay Christmas letters and wishes to the jolly old elf and crew.

Theresa Riley remembers her husband, Robert, as a low-key type of guy, but she figures he would get a kick out of representing organ and tissue donors in the Rose Parade.

School District of La Crosse board members had a lot to digest at their Monday meeting.

MINNEAPOLIS — The NFL has suspended Adrian Peterson without pay for at least the rest of the season.

Valley View Mall will hand out fines to stores that don’t comply with its Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday hours, mall employees say.

The walk into the Copeland Park ball field could be paved in coming years with the names of some of the region’s standouts in baseball.

WINONA, Minn. — Old Man Winter is forcing Winona river barge traffic to wrap up at least a week early, a sudden cap to a season where shippers negotiated wild weather, a temporary river closur…