La Crosse Tribune Local News

BLACK RIVER FALLS — The Black River Falls School District will place a $22.5 million referendum question on the November ballot to address facilities needs.

Landlords in La Crosse have until Thursday to get their properties on the city’s rental registry or face late fees and potentially costly daily fines.

The La Crosse Area Suicide Prevention Initiative will sponsor its annual Suicide Prevention Summit from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 10 at the La Crosse Center.

Prosecutors Tuesday levied four new felony charges against an Onalaska sex offender accused of molesting a 6-year-old girl and photographing a 7-year-old boy.

MADISON -- Wisconsin Emergency Management is seeking 20 community-minded people to serve as part-time AmeriCorps members in emergency management offices throughout the state from Sept. 1 throu…

A Sparta man who took a stolen truck on a joyride in south La Crosse Monday evening before running from police was sentenced to jail last week for leading officers on a June 25 pursuit, accord…

Accused

Attorneys and a judge Tuesday eliminated more than 30 potential jurors polled for Mitrel Anderson’s homicide trial.

A freakish amount of sediment left when the Mississippi River braked from flood stage to low water put a cork in barge traffic near Winona and Wabasha, Minn.

If you don’t have an extra $300 to throw around, don’t speed through a construction work zone.

HOUSTON, Minn. -- There will be a Star Party at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Houston Nature Center.

Christina Papenfuss has a special reason to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Center for Advanced Medicine and Surgery at Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Healthcare.

MINNEAPOLIS — A cross-country solar car race was set to finish at the University of Minnesota on Monday.

Sexual assault charges are pending against a La Crosse man accused of battering a woman until she consented to sex, according to La Crosse police reports.

RUSHFORD, Minn. -- A Caledonia, Minn., man was injured while attempting to perform a burnout on Hwy. 43 in Rushford.

VIROQUA — The city of Viroqua began enforcing its boulevard planning ordinance Monday morning by cutting down a number of boulevard gardens.

WINONA, Minn. -- A Winona man was injured after a single-vehicle crash Sunday on Hwy. 61 south of Winona.

An ongoing rail backlog that has stranded grain shipments across the Great Plains is now threatening to shut down a La Crosse-area power plant.

Accused

A puddle of vomit helped La Crosse police find a suspect in a hit-and-run Saturday afternoon.