La Crosse Tribune Local News

THE WAY IT WAS: This is a photograph, recently donated to the La Crosse Public Library Archives Department, showing Bendel’s Orchestra. It is believed that the photo was taken in the ballroom …

BLACK RIVER FALLS — Keith Cormican and his older brother saw the need for a dive rescue team in Jackson County. For years, the brothers worked side by side using their own scuba gear to find d…

TOWN OF BANGOR — The La Crosse County Sheriff’s Department has identified the driver in a single-vehicle accident who was killed Saturday morning in the town of Bangor.

TOWN OF BYRON -- A 77-year-old Buffalo, Minn., man died, and three other people were injured in a three-vehicle crash Saturday afternoon in Monroe County.

MADISON — In July 2012, Kohl’s Department Stores secured up to $62.5 million in state tax credits to keep its headquarters in Menomonee Falls.

Ads in 60 restaurants across the Midwest and billboards in western Wisconsin show the VanWychen family of Wetherby Cranberry Co. sporting hip boots with iconic Ronald McDonald in their cranber…

Cranberry growers charge in a federal lawsuit that Ocean Spray, the industry’s dominant player, is costing them hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue by wielding undue influence over the …

At the Dane County Farmers’ Market in November, cranberry grower Nodji VanWychen proudly lifted a bag of fresh berries and declared, “This is going to help keep our head above water.”

There are few better places to buy summer vegetables, fresh cheese curds and homemade baked goods than Wisconsin, which has the eighth-most farmers markets of any state in the nation, accordin…

MADISON -- By conventional education standards, UW-Madison’s first round of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, had an extremely rough start.

Administered by La Crosse County, the For Goodness’ Sake program provides donated household goods to the needy. The phone numbers listed are for local agency contacts, not the person in need.

MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) — Some people raise dogs or cats for their cuddly companionship. Others opt for fuss-free fish. Carol Stokes and Lori Beilke choose to mother monarchs.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — At 100 years old, the Cafesjian Carousel still delights St. Paul’s youngest residents.

Tri-State Ambulance vehicles have logged millions of miles on their life-saving missions since the service started with two hearse-style station wagons in 1968.

Average days are nonexistent for emergency medical dispatchers, often forcing them to be multi-tasking whizzes to juggle calls from the second they report to work, Jamie Ristey says.

A series of part-time gigs as a rural emergency volunteer led Crystal Wallin to conclude that her true calling was to the emergency medical field instead of banking.

The driver in a single-vehicle accident was killed Saturday morning in the town of Bangor, according to the La Crosse County Sheriff’s Department.

WEST ALLIS -- There may be no better place to gorge than at the Wisconsin State Fair.

The public will get its chance to weigh in on the future of the La Crosse Public Library -- and, in particular, its two branch sites -- as the library board starts a series of listening sessio…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man charged Friday with killing a Mendota Heights police officer and firing at others during an eight-hour manhunt allegedly told police, “I hate cops and I’m guilty,” acc…