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The Coon Valley Business Association and the La Crosse Trout Association are sponsoring Coon Creek Trout Fest on Saturday.

VIROQUA, Wis. — Sofya Hundt has woven a life rich in all of the details that make up Viroqua although she was born and raised in Azerbaijan.

The oven is a remnant from when the park was a Unitarian retreat more than 100 years ago.

Despite a slump in the U.S. oil industry, Wisconsin frac sand producers are planning to spend millions of dollars on new plants and loading facilities as they seek to increase efficiency and sell their product in new markets.

Would-be stand-up comedians should be aware that they are setting themselves up to fail, and they need thick skin to endure the sounds of silence when they expect peals of laughter, according to a couple of La Crosse comics who…

Our relatively pleasant summer of 2016 is a far cry from the deadly heat of 80 summers ago.

The Ferryville Tourism Council and Mississippi Valley Conservancy are hosting a hike at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, July 23, at Sugar Creek Bluff in Ferryville as part of the annual River Bluff Daze celebration.

As the first group of racers took off and I rolled up to the start line, I felt the butterflies.

Karla Mees didn’t flinch when she learned she had breast cancer: “I had an intuition. A coworker offered to come in and cry with me, but I didn’t cry. I said, ‘I’ve got this’ and I moved on.”

My moment of pork epiphany came after the first bite hit my mouth.

MADISON — When the Republican National Convention opens Monday in Cleveland, Wisconsin’s power trio — Scott Walker, Paul Ryan and Reince Priebus — and other state Republicans will again play prominent roles, but this time with a fractured party hoping…

BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. (AP) — Wildlife officials say a second herd of elk from Kentucky has been released in west-central Wisconsin.

Food science is a little bizarre.

The Houston Nature Center is hosting nature sessions for children, teens and adults in Trailhead Park, Houston.

If Country Jam — the annual three-day musical extravaganza held outside Eau Claire — had a Hall of Fame, it’s a good bet that the hard-working duo LoCash would be one of the first inductees.

This Navy officer’s hat was part of Cmdr. Howard Nestingen’s World War II Navy dress uniform.

Shaundel Spivey wasn’t sure what to expect when he shared a photo of a Caucasian-led Black Lives Matter march on Facebook with the caption: “Would La Crosse people be so brave?”

The “Chicken Dance” is a lively foot-stomper that people seem either to love or hate, but Millie Napoli love-love-loves it so much she might knock you out of the way to get to the dance floor.

Anna-Lisa Hunter is the new minister at Wesley United Methodist Church, 721 King St. Hunter most recently worked at Crossroads Campus Ministry in La Crosse. Anna-Lisa’s husband, Park, is minister at Onalaska United Methodist Church. They have three children. Anna-Lisa…

The Joyful Sound Singers — an ecumenical musical group from Holmen, Trempealeau and Onalaska — will provide music during the 9 a.m. Sunday worship service at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 420 West Ave. S. The theme for the service is…