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WESTBY — Joe Iverson has attained many milestones in his life including biking across the country, getting married, surviving cancer and becoming an ordained Lutheran minister.

LA CRESCENT, Minn. — A half-eaten apple in hand, 6-year-old Mason Ulland stepped up to the table under a white tent to receive his free samples of cut-up apples. He tried all five of the varie…

RACINE, Wis. (AP) — A Racine man has been convicted in a 2006 beating that was so severe the victim lapsed into a coma for 18 months before he died.

Freshmen at colleges around the country for years have been assigned to read the same books as a way to bond at orientation and to encourage intellectual interactions rather than just social ones.

MADISON — Any lingering doubts about the nonpartisan bona fides of Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, the state campaign finance watchdog, should be annihilated by Mike McCabe’s new book, “Blue Jea…

Just before starting her 20th year of teaching Spanish at Luther High School in Onalaska, Becky Lussky was hit with a bombshell. After a biopsy, a PET scan and a CT scan, the diagnosis: stage …

Couple grateful for anniversary dinner

Thanks for support of festival

Help during recovery was appreciated

Beware: With the peak deer-in-headlights season approaching, drivers have a 1 in 85 chance of hitting a whitetail on Wisconsin highways — crashes that kill an average of 10 people and injure 4…

La Crosse Mayor Tim Kabat is frustrated that the state Department of Transportation appears to be threatening to cancel the north-south corridor because of longtime local wrangling over plans.

NEW YORK (AP) — The maker of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer -- which holds most of the remaining brands from the former G. Heileman Brewery Co. -- is being sold to Russian company Oasis Beverages for …

A 62-year-old Whitehall man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of fondling a terminally-ill cancer patient while she was sedated in her hospital bed.

MADISON — Wisconsin's semi-private job creation agency lacked supporting documentation justifying spending on expenses and grants during the first two years of its existence, according to a re…

MADISON — Democratic candidate for Wisconsin governor Mary Burke said Friday she cut ties with a consultant she blames for copying several sections of her jobs plan from platforms of other Democrats.

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Bicycle sharing systems like Madison’s B-cycle  and Milwaukee’s Bublr  have gained popularity in recent years, drawing scores of riders to what’s touted as the a fun, inexpensive and healthy t…

When Karen Briggs and her husband decided to relocate to what then was the Powell-Hood-Hamilton neighborhood in 2007, they had a host of good reasons for wanting to live closer to her then-emp…

If it seems like there are more college students than usual in La Crosse this fall, that’s because there are -- enrollment is up at all three local institutions.

WINONA, Minn. — The lab samples Winona State University professor Jennifer Anderson used in her classes this week weren’t shipped FedEx.