La Crosse Tribune Local News

When it comes to glorious summers, last year’s weather thrashed the daylights out of this summer’s hotter, wetter conditions in the Coulee Region, according to the whimsical Summer Glory Index.

Nearly two decades after the former Plaid Pantry closed, the building at 618 Jackson St. could see some new life as a community center.

In 1852, a young German woman left her birthplace of Württemberg to travel by ship to New York City. Johanna Catherine Bantle was 21 years old and unmarried.

The Red Cross and Sport Clips Haircuts are offering free haircut coupons to blood and platelet donors in September.

When FSC spiritual director Deb Hansen suffered a miscarriage 25 years ago, she found little to no support.

“Slaying Giants” is the theme of New Image Women’s Ministries fall study, which begins Wednesday, Sept. 7.

Olivet Lutheran Church will host three-part presentation about loss titled "Moving On,' led by Gerald Baldner.

The National Weather Service Office in La Crosse will host an open house from 2 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15, at its facility atop Grandad Bluff.

MADISON -- The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection's Division of Food and Recreational Safety issued a consumer alert for 4 percent cottage cheese made by Westby Cooperative Creamery.

The following people appeared in La Crosse County Circuit Court:

CALEDONIA, Minn. -- More than 50 children got to see feathers, scales and fur up close and personal on Friday.

A convicted con man with a record at least 30 years long is back on the streets, and prosecutors say he’s still running game in his golden years.

ONALASKA -- Concrete pavement replacement on Main Street in the city of Onalaska from 10th Avenue North to 17th Avenue North will begin Monday.

It’s been 96 years since American women were granted the right to vote through the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

About four months after moving medical residents into their new digs on Eighth and Tyler streets, Gundersen Health System is moving forward with plans for a second phase.

Brian Grittner, 57, was taken to the hospital in critical condition. The American Red Cross assisted four families.

Mike St. John found his neighbor, Brian Grittner, seated in a pond of pink insulation in what remained of his Fitchburg home. Two explosions had just leveled the building, leaving Grittner, prone and incoherent, but alive.

WINONA, Minn. -- An alert trucker may have saved a house from burning down Friday morning south of Winona.

A man was critically injured in a one-vehicle crash Thursday night in Trempealeau County.

ST. PAUL -- Gov. Mark Dayton sought Friday to extend a little Minnesota nice to the state's declining honeybee population by issuing an executive order limiting certain pesticides that harm them, a step advocates said positions the state as a…