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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.

MADISON — With two months to go before Election Day, conservative and liberal groups are swooping into Wisconsin’s attorney general race and scouring court records for fodder to attack Republi…

On behalf of the members of the Happy Twirlers Square Dance Club, I would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to the generous donor at our Aug. 23 brat fest fundraiser in the Village Shopp…

La Crosse County Circuit Court felonies:

Minnesota transportation officials will hold a public meeting next week to inform residents about plans to replace a bridge near Brownsville next year.

It's time for local sleuths to break out their detective dirndls, because the hunt for the 2014 Oktoberfest USA Medallion starts Monday.

The race is about jobs, but Mary Burke is making a case that she would work towards unity for an all-around better state.

OSSEO, Wis. -- An attempted homicide charge is pending against a Portage, Wis., man accused of shooting another man Thursday afternoon at a house in the town of Sumner, according to the Trempe…

A La Crosse sex offender faces life in prison after prosecutors charged him Friday with molesting an 11-year-old boy.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Democrat who narrowly lost a bid for the party's nomination for a southwestern Wisconsin state Senate seat says he won't challenge recount results in court.

La Crosse police are looking for the person or people responsible for damaging three department vehicles outside City Hall early Friday.

A surveillance video caught a Minneapolis man damaging a pay station gate in a downtown parking ramp the day after the city installed a camera to catch vandals.

When I first heard the news I had a lump in my throat and pain in my stomach. I was not ill. I had just learned my physician of 15 years was leaving.