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COON VALLEY -- Norskedalen Nature & Heritage Center’s haunted hike, Ghoulees in the Coulees, starts with the pumpkin walk, a half-mile hike, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

A nonscary Halloween party for ages 1 to 9 will be from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24, and Saturday, Oct. 25, at the Children's Museum of La Crosse.

Under the curious eye of a smiling Pope Francis at the Vatican, a couple from the La Crosse Diocese challenged the world’s Catholic bishops to devise new methods to address marriage and family…

MADISON — On Oct. 8, Mandy Wright held a fundraiser in Madison, at a bar across the street from the state Capitol. The event listing said “we will be accepting donations of $250 or $100” from …

Outdoor wood-fired furnaces would have to be farther away from neighboring homes, have higher smokestacks and older boilers updated to cleaner-burning models by the end of 2020 under a propose…

Prices Thursday for a gallon of regular gas:

ONALASKA -- Valley View Rotary will sponsor its Bring Books event from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.  Saturday in the Festival Foods parking lot in Crossing Meadows.

MADISON (AP) — Democrat Mary Burke and her supporters hope that Republican Gov. Scott Walker's adamant opposition to the minimum wage will help swing the governor's race in her favor, with pol…

A man was arrested Wednesday at a family member’s house in Tomah for the shooting death of his wife, according to the Sawyer County Sheriff’s Department.

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TOMAH — Every day Tomah High School students witness Carney Strong. Friday those students will let Bill Carney know they have his back.

Three La Crosse schools were locked down for about an hour Thursday morning as a precaution while police searched for a suspect they believed was armed.

Congressman Ron Kind raised 3.5 times as much money this summer as challenger Tony Kurtz, but the Republican candidate outperformed the nine-term incumbent among individual donors.

MADISON -- Both candidates for state attorney general oppose making first-time drunken driving a criminal offense, which is the law in every state except Wisconsin, but they differ strongly on…

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse alumnus Dan Saftig has spent his career working in senior-level positions at four of the country’s largest public universities and plans to share “Standing Ou…

Rotary Lights is celebrating two decades of providing dazzling holiday displays and feeding the hungry in the La Crosse area this year.

MADISON, Wis. — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke said Wednesday that the dispute over the authenticity of her jobs plan slowed the momentum of her campaign against Republican Gov.…

Many local school districts fared well under final state aid figures for 2014-2015 released Wednesday by the  Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction data.

The question of “how would you like your eggs?” has always been a complex one to answer.

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