La Crosse Tribune Local News

The report looked at education, poverty, income, jobs, housing, migration, deportation and public assistance.

New report offers 10-year update on demographics, barriers, successes and challenges facing Latino community in Dane County.

Lead forecaster John Wetenkamp spends his days sitting in front of six computer monitors “trying to predict the future,” he told a crowd of onlookers Thursday at the National Weather Service Open House.

While Gov. Scott Walker traveled the state Thursday touting the increase in state funding for local transportation in his proposed budget, county officials and state lawmakers, including some from his own party, took a dim view of the plan he…

Team USA bronze medalist Emma Coburn spoke about her path to the Rio Olympic Games Thursday to students at State Road Elementary School.

Michael Caviale, 29, of 222 24th St. S. was charged Thursday with operating a motor vehicle without owner’s consent, felony bail jumping, forgery and misdemeanor theft. According to a complaint, Caviale stole license plates off a vehicle at 900 Market…

La Crosse County Health Department employees and other health-care advocates are trying to wrap their minds around the meaning and scope of the word stigma to assess its impact on mental health issues, Health Director Jen Rombalski said.

The 52nd annual Midwest Banjo Fest is set for this weekend in La Crosse.

Comic books today are about much more than superheroes saving the day. They’re about “exploring new genres and new ways of telling stories,” according to librarians Lindsay Schmitt and Brendan Hubbs.

Registration for the Festival Foods Turkey Trot is now open at www.festivalfoodsturkeytrot.com. Online registration is $15 for children under 18 and $20 for adults from Sept. 15 through Oct. 31. Prices increase Nov. 1.

The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Small Business Development Center is offering a Supervisory Management Certificate Program, the first of three core courses, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 28 and 29, at the UW-L Cleary Alumni…

A “Sit, Sip, Paint” canvas-painting party will be held at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 23 in McCoy’s Community Center, building 1571.

The Tribune will provide a short biography and photo of each of the eight historic women being featured during Saturday’s Silent City Remarkable Women of La Crosse cemetery tour from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Oak Grove Cemetery.

The International Owl Center in Houston will host an Owl Prowl at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24. Learn how to identify local owls by size, shape, silhouette and sound. Following the indoor portion of the program participants will carpool to…

West Salem’s annual celebration of native son Hamlin Garland — set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday – will have more of a literary bent this year. Organizers have invited at least a dozen authors to participate in the event’s first…

I hate to sound like I’m a day late and a dollar short, but technically, I’m four or five days late and hundreds of dollars short.

There are signs of growing income inequality in La Crosse County with a rise in both income and poverty last year.

Oktoberfest’s Torchlight Parade marshal will step lively with his North Side pride, and the Maple Leaf Parade pacesetter will have to adjust to moving out of the shadows into the spotlight.

Nearly 30 years after it stopped producing power, Dairyland Power Cooperative’s nuclear energy plant in Genoa is entering the final stretch of decommissioning.

Jordan Hammel, 25, of 1426 Liberty St., was charged Wednesday with possession with intent to deliver meth, possession of an illegally obtained prescription and drug paraphernalia and felony bail jumping. Hammel had 23 grams of meth, prescription pills and two…