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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…

An experimental underwater speaker system designed to repel invasive Asian carp is up and running in Genoa, University of Minnesota officials confirmed this week.

MADISON — A court-ordered change to Wisconsin's photo identification law that's designed to cut down on voter fraud is creating confusion and may even open the door to the very type of behavio…

A 22-year-old La Crosse man faces up to 28 years in prison after being convicted of raping a woman in her South Side apartment.

Police say an Onalaska man’s excessive perspiration allowed him to escape -- briefly -- from a locked squad car.

Newly released documents show the coal delivery shortage that threatens to shutter one of Dairyland Power's two coal-fired plants has also caused a fuel shortage at one of Minnesota’s largest …

Police say a Pennsylvania man set fire to a dumpster outside a North Side bar Thursday night after he was kicked out for smoking and using racial slurs.

VIROQUA -- Police say search warrants executed by the Vernon County Sheriff's Department on Thursday afternoon shut down one of the most productive and hazardous methamphetamine operations in …

The left lanes of Hwy. 61 north of La Crescent will be closed for several days starting Monday for repairs.