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Three people escaped a fire at an apartment in downtown La Crosse.

The three-year-old boy's name has not been released.

Democratic candidate for governor Mary Burke faces a vote as a member of the Madison school board over whether to raise property taxes.

Gov. Scott Walker reports raising more than $10 million in less than three months heading into the Nov. 4 election.

Both Walker and his Democratic challenger Mary Burke were campaigning around the state on Monday, with the Nov. 4 election eight days away.

The investigation into this matter is ongoing, but deputies say it appears this was a terrible accident.

A teenager has admitted to writing a threat on the wall of a boys bathroom at Barron High School.

Xcel Energy says rainy weather pushed its production level past the previous high mark in September. The previous high was set in 2002.

It happened north of Sparta on State Highway 27 near County Road S.

A federal judge is poised to sentence a Colorado woman who took her newborn nephew from a Wisconsin home and left him outside in freezing temperatures in Iowa.

Administrators at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh are urging students to travel in groups, be aware of their surroundings and walk in well-lighted areas at night after a fifth assault or robbery in the last month.

A woman has been arrested in Washington County on suspicion of driving drunk, which would be her seventh such offense.

The family of a black man killed by a white police officer in Milwaukee is calling for criminal charges after the officer was fired for instigating the fight that led to the shooting.

Dozens of men strapped on their stilettos and slipped into their finest pumps this afternoon at Carson Park to make an unusual statement.

The union representing Milwaukee police officers is holding a no-confidence vote over the police chief's firing of an officer involved in a fatal shooting.

On Saturday deputies recovered the body of 64 year old Roger Goodell who had fallen out of the boat he was fishing in two weeks earlier.

Fort McCoy officials say 145,000 troops from all branches of the U.S. military trained at the base between Tomah and Sparta in federal fiscal year 2014.

A Horicon man has died after he allegedly fled from authorities on a motorcycle, left the roadway then crashed into a power pole.

Starting Monday, millions of people who have avoided colon cancer screening can get a new home test that's noninvasive and doesn't require the icky preparation most other methods do.

Gov. Scott Walker proudly defends his decision to reject hundreds of millions of federal dollars to pay for expanding Medicaid coverage. But polls show most Wisconsin residents believe he made the wrong choice and his Democratic gubernatorial opponent Mary Burke decries the move as irresponsible.