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Mike and Diane Holliday logged roughly 178,500 miles — give or take a few kilometers — during nearly three decades of spousal carpooling from their La Crescent home to their jobs at the same h…

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — Allison "Allye" Ritt, 29, is going to Disney. Not for vacation, but because she was recently accepted as a skater in the 2014-15 tour of Disney On Ice's "Worlds of Fantasy."

WILLMAR, Minn. — It must be said at this point: Sen. Al Franken is just dull.

WINONA -- If you're into seed saving, learning new dances or watching contest dancing, free camping, or playing the original version of lacrosse, this year's new additions to the Great Dakota …

TOMAH — Tomah High School band director Charles O’Brien has heard many stories about people who played in their high school band then put their instruments down only to miss the music years later.

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WEST SALEM — Garland Days, West Salem’s annual festival celebrating the birthday of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hamlin Garland, is set for Sept. 12-14.

WINONA, Minn. — This fall the Winona County Historical Society is introducing something new to its educational programs: history lessons on a boat.

Dave Marck’s family connection to the La Crosse area runs deep.

ELY, Minn. — With the August sun sparkling on Lake One, Chase Coyle stuffed dry sacks full of food for a four-day trip into the Boundary Waters.

PRAIRIE DU SAC, Wis. — Denman Kramer never kept a tally of the times he’s gone up and down the 24 steps that lead from the parking lot entrance to the main office on the second floor of the dam here.

CHICAGO — On a typical school night, Nicole Bankowski averages about five hours of sleep. She is taking four AP classes, along with serving as editor of the school newspaper, treasurer of the …

WASHINGTON — If the 23 states that have rejected expanding Medicaid under the 2010 health-care law continue to do so for the next eight years, they’ll pay $152 billion to extend the program in…

Audra Fuchsel of Onalaska is the new Miss La Crosse-Oktoberfest, topping a field of 12 contestants Saturday night at Viterbo University's Fine Arts Center.

Muscian Hans Mayer was among the headliners Saturday at the La Crosse Storytelling Festival at Myrick Park.

“It’s not a walk,” says Debbie Kroner, Steppin’ Out in Pink’s special events manager. "It's an event."

LA CRESCENT, Minn. — Despite a winter of extremely cold temperatures and a cooler than average summer, the area’s apple crop this year is producing a bountiful harvest of popular varieties.

JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin school district has adopted a policy allowing transgender students to use the bathroom and locker room of the gender with which they identify if it's OK wit…

The old “I’ve-fallen-and-I-can’t-get-up” commercial has inspired more than its fair share of jokes over the years, but falling is no laughing matter to the 1 in 3 people 65 and older who fall …

A five-session, once-a-week investment class led by Dean Blegen will provide information about investing in the stock and bond markets.