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(2010/03/12)
Two judges handed down divergent prison terms Thursday for two men convicted in a July 2009 shooting that police called a gang initiation.
(2010/03/12)
An exhibit featuring peregrine falcons is the first to be completed at the Myrick Hixon EcoPark in La Crosse.
(2010/03/12)
Green building practices and the latest in landscaping will be in the spotlight at the La Crosse Area Builder Association Home and Garden Show today through Sunday at the Onalaska OmniCenter.
(2010/03/12)
A judge says three groups that support campaign finance reform cannot intervene in two lawsuits challenging Wisconsin’s new law expanding public financing for Supreme Court races.
(2010/03/12)
Police in Grand Chute say a 13-year-old girl reported she was sexually assaulted at the Fox River Mall by a man who told her he was an Appleton police officer.
(2010/03/12)
Manitowoc police say a woman whose fingers were bitten off by an Asiatic black bear at Lincoln Park Zoo last week was drunk.
(2010/03/12)
Democratic candidate for governor and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett on Tuesday dismissed Republican rival Scott Walker’s pledge to bring 250,000 jobs to Wisconsin during his first term as a "random" number, then said if he’s elected the state could see 180,000 more jobs over three years.
(2010/03/12)
Topeka changed its name to Google, Kan. for this month. Duluth made a playful video proclaiming every first-born in the city would be renamed Google or Googlette Fiber. And in another spot, the mayor jumped into Lake Superior to get the Internet giant’s attention. And Madison, being Madison, is holding a public meeting - for starters.
(2010/03/12)
Retired government employees with money in the Wisconsin Retirement System will see their pensions shrink for the second year in a row, if all of their money is in the Core Fund.
(2010/03/12)
Madison-based Fiskars Brands Inc. is recalling more than 150,000 machetes because the double-edged cutting tool has caused hand lacerations.
(2010/03/12)
The national president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving is urging Wisconsin lawmakers to hold a hearing on a bill that would toughen drunken driving penalties in the state.
(2010/03/12)
The indie-rock group Porcupine will perform at UW-La Crosse at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 11, in the Cellar in Cartwright Center.
(2010/03/09)
Legislation proposed Monday would increase protections for Wisconsin’s groundwater by providing more review of proposed large wells that could potentially draw down drinking water supplies and threaten connected surface waters such as streams, wetlands and lakes.
(2010/03/09)
The Onalaska High School dance team will conduct a clinic for dancers in grades K-8 on Sunday, March 14, from 1 to 3:30 p.m. with a performance at 4 p.m. at Eagle Bluff Elementary in Onalaska.
(2010/03/09)
When a Verona High School student had a headache last month, he asked his friends for Tylenol or Advil to relieve the pain. But what he unwittingly took was an OxyContin pill that one of his friends slipped him.
(2010/03/09)
Faced with $20,000 in credit card debt, rising credit card interest rates and an uncertain employment future, Ruth Cole of Middleton succumbed to the "very persuasive" pitch the caller from PDM International made in the fall.
(2010/03/09)
New and gently used dresses will be available during a sale to benefit the YWCA of the Coulee Region’s Teen Services programs.
(2010/03/08)
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is distancing itself from an agreement with a conservative group to conduct public opinion polls it announced just months ago.
(2010/03/08)
A prominent psychologist and expert on post-traumatic stress disorder, especially among rape and child abuse victims, has been barred from renewing his license in Wisconsin.
(2010/03/08)
The Onalaska schools’ spring jazz concert Monday will feature a special guest artist, John Paulson, a music professor Saint Mary’s University in Winona, Minn.
(2010/03/08)
The state Department of Natural Resources has issued an air quality watch for particle pollution for 23 western and south-central counties until Friday night, the DNR announced.
(2010/03/08)
Could pension funding for government workers turn into an issue in the governor’s race? It hasn’t come up yet that I’ve seen, but a report issued last week by the conservative Wisconsin Public Research Institute showing the difference in retirement benefits for public and private sector workers is continuing to draw fire in government circles.
(2010/03/08)
Anger over rising tuition and school budget cuts boiled over as students across the country staged rowdy demonstrations that led to clashes with police and the rush-hour shutdown of a major freeway in California.
(2010/03/08)
A former Milwaukee County deputy faces more than four years behind bars when he’s sentenced for beating a handcuffed man who had to use the bathroom.
(2010/03/08)
Milwaukee native Danny Gokey will be back in his hometown this weekend promoting his new album.
(2010/03/08)
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is pledging to help a new university in Kazakhstan get started.
(2010/03/08)
Gov. Jim Doyle used Thursday’s news that Wisconsin wasn’t among the finalists for federal Race to the Top education money as a call to reform Milwaukee Public Schools, a proposal that has floundered in the Legislature.
(2010/03/08)
A judge was ready to show lenience to former Racine Mayor Gary Becker, who’d been convicted of trying to trying to arrange a sexual tryst with someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl. But when Judge Stephen Simanek found out Becker bought girls’ underwear just two weeks ago, he said it was proof Becker had a "deep-seated" problem that required incarceration.
(2010/03/08)
A 14-year-old girl has been arrested on a tentative charge of first-degree reckless homicide in the overdose death of a 13-year-old boy, the Rock County Sheriff’s Office reported.
(2010/03/08)
The search for the killer of Father Alfred Kunz goes on.
(2010/03/08)
There’s still time to sign up for Saturday’s Coulee Region Polar Plunge, a frigid fundraiser for Special Olympics.
(2010/03/08)
Democrats in the Wisconsin Assembly said bills slated to pass on Thursday will help bolster the state’s struggling economy.
(2010/03/01)
The Brice Prairie Pub & Eatery will open Monday at N5914 Hwy. ZZ in Brice Prairie.
(2010/03/01)
The Wisconsin Senate is set to vote on a bill that would make it a crime to manufacture or use false academic credentials.
(2010/03/01)
CHRIS RICKERT Lee Newspapers A California anti-abortion rights group said Thursday the president of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin lied when she said earlier this week that the family planning group did not have the name of a woman posing as a 14-year-old girl who said she wanted an abortion after having been impregnated by her 31-year-old boyfriend.
(2010/03/01)
Wisconsin wildlife officials will hold a series of public deer management meetings around the state next month.
(2010/02/25)
An autopsy today showed a 21-year-old Western Technical College student recovered from the Mississippi River Tuesday afternoon drowned with a 0.28 percent blood-alcohol content level, according to preliminary autopsy results.
(2010/02/25)
Gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett today said the state’s clean energy jobs bill needs major changes.
(2010/02/25)
With demand outpacing supply, local food producers need to shore up delivery systems to get their goods to customers, according to a study out Thursday from UW-Madison and the UW-Extension.
(2010/02/25)
MADISON -- Its creators used the patience of a wine maker but stuck to the basics of beer. The result will be unveiled Monday, not by the pitcher, but in 5-ounce servings in snifters typically reserved for brandy.
(2010/02/25)
A 21-year-old Madison man helping out a stranger ended up being an unwitting accomplice in an alleged bank fraud, Madison police reported.
(2010/02/25)
A Milwaukee man accused of killing seven women allegedly told a cellmate that it turned him on to beat up and choke women and that he even killed some women.
(2010/02/25)
An Outagamie County court commissioner is charged with sexually assaulting a former girlfriend.
(2010/02/17)
Murky water and a Mississippi River bottom cluttered with debris made the search for a missing 21-year-old college student like “diving in a strong cup of coffee,” expert rescue diver Bill Powell said.
(2010/02/17)
Looking at the crowd of 600, Mark Meyers said they were only a small fraction of the people his brother had touched in his 21 years of life.
(2010/02/17)
Bangor School District voters Tuesday supported referendums that will maintain programs and personnel, and demolish the former junior and senior high school.
(2010/02/17)
The two challengers to incumbent La Crosse County Supervisor Monica Kruse in District 29 tied Tuesday for second place.
(2010/02/17)
The Sierra Club sued the state Department of Natural Resources on Monday to obtain public records that it requested in October.
(2010/02/17)
Wisconsin would no longer be the "Wild West" of payday lending under an Assembly bill approved Tuesday evening to regulate the industry for the first time.
(2010/02/17)
A body was pulled from the icy waters of the Mississippi River at about 4:55 p.m. today near the Courtyard by Marriot hotel. Although police did not immediately confirm the identity of the body, it is near the spot where police believe Craig Meyers fell into the river.
(2010/02/17)
Authorities searching for Craig Meyers will return today to the Mississippi River, after a dog tracked his scent to the ice and video footage showed what appears to be the missing college student walking alone through downtown La Crosse.
(2010/02/17)
A fire thought to have been sparked by a VCR connected to an extension cord caused substantial damage to a town of Onalaska home Monday evening, an Onalaska fire official said.
(2010/02/17)
Today is the day to cast ballots in the spring primary election.
(2010/02/17)
MADISON -- The state Assembly will attempt next week to override Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle’s veto of a bill that strips governors of their power to appoint the Department of Natural Resources secretary and hand it to the agency’s board.
(2010/02/17)
MADISON -- A new kind of stem cells, which don’t involve the destruction of embryos, can’t turn into brain cells as well as embryonic stem cells can, a UW-Madison study found.
(2010/02/17)
A Mount Horeb High School student has died from bacterial meningitis, the second area student to die in February from the disease.
(2010/02/17)
The state Justice Department will offer police around the state a chance to review Wisconsin’s open records laws.
(2010/02/17)
Authorities will discuss today whether to search the Mississippi River for a missing 21-year-old La Crosse student after police investigators found a set of footprints on its icy surface.
(2010/02/17)
The director of Gov. Jim Doyle’s signature college access program abruptly resigned last month at a critical time for the program’s implementation, records show.
(2010/02/17)
Saturday’s opening of the 2010 sturgeon spearing season on Lake Winnebago saw records fall as spearers hauled in not only the biggest sturgeon ever taken but also the largest number of fish greater than or equal to 100 pounds.
(2010/02/17)
It says a lot about William Kunstler that his daughters could make a compelling documentary about his brilliant and controversial legal career without mentioning his involvement in one of Madison’s most memorable courtroom dramas.
(2010/02/17)
The U.S. Census Bureau still needs workers in Wisconsin.
(2010/02/17)
A Powerball ticket sold in Green Bay is worth $1 million thanks to the game’s Power Play prize multiplier.
(2010/02/17)
Sales of existing homes in every region of Wisconsin saw double-digit percentage growth in the fourth quarter of 2009, led by the south-central region including Dane County.
(2010/02/17)
When Dane County District Attorney Brian Blanchard pledged to refuse campaign contributions from political action committees in his run for the state Court of Appeals, many accepted it as a breath of fresh air after some nasty recent Supreme Court races.
(2010/02/17)
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker are in a close race for governor, according to a newly released poll.
(2010/02/17)
About 100,000 Wisconsin residents set to lose unemployment benefits at the end of the month could continue receiving payments through the end of May under a bipartisan jobs bill released today.
(2010/02/17)
Starting March 1, qualified first-time homebuyers can get low-cost, fixed-rate mortgage loans for as little as $1,000 down through the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority’s new WHEDA Fannie Mae Advantage program. The 30-year loans feature reduced fees, job-loss protections and up to 100 percent financing of a home’s purchase price. The required payment of $1,000 applies to closing costs. Borrowers also may be eligible to use the federal first-time homebuyers tax credit with the program if a home contract is signed by April 30 and closed by June 30.
(2010/02/17)
MADISON -- When Judy Nolde heard a loud rumbling at 4 a.m. Wednesday she knew it was different than a snowplow, but thought it might be a snowdrift falling from the roof of her North Side home or maybe ice buckling on nearby Lake Mendota.
(2010/02/17)
Lawyers for the eight Great Lakes states and the Obama administration discussed a legal dispute Wednesday over preventing an Asian carp infestation but no deal was reached, Michigan’s attorney general said.
(2010/02/17)
MADISON -- This much is clear: He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s communication arts program. He is making the gift with his wife through a family foundation. They have a son who recently graduated from the college.
(2010/02/17)
A 78-year-old Newburg man is dead after he got pinned between a front end loader and his garage as he used the loader cleared snow.
(2010/02/17)
About 1,000 American-born children are forced into the sex trade in Ohio every year and about 800 immigrants are sexually exploited and pushed into sweatshop-type jobs, a new report on human trafficking in the state said Wednesday.
(2010/02/17)
This all started when my colleague George, who likes going to postcard shows, attended one recently and went looking for a card for our colleague, Julie, who includes in her past a stint as the Hodag mascot at Rhinelander High School.
(2010/02/10)
Permanently severing a man-made link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River system is the only sure way to protect the lakes from voracious Asian carp, scientists and activists told a congressional panel Tuesday.
(2010/02/10)
Assembly Speaker Mike Sheridan and a lobbyist for the payday lending industry he has admitted dating were at the same conferences held in California and Georgia last year, his spokeswoman said Tuesday.
(2010/02/10)
MADISON -- A Baraboo man who repeatedly shocked an East Side dance instructor with a stun gun on Friday claimed the instructor was a "sinner" who "defiles married women," according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday.
(2010/02/10)
WASHINGTON - Milwaukee urban farmer Will Allen is joining Michelle Obama as she launches a nationwide campaign to fight childhood obesity.
(2010/02/10)
MADISON - Dane County authorities say a drunken man stole an ambulance from a ski area with the patient still inside.
(2010/02/10)
U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, D-La Crosse, will host a live discussion for residents of the 3rd Congressional District on Wednesday, Feb. 10, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Participants will have the opportunity to provide feedback and ask questions on current legislation, the economy and health care reform, among other topics.
(2010/02/09)
A state lawmaker exaggerated when he claimed he received hundreds of letters from innocent people who said their lives had been hurt by an online court database.
(2010/02/09)
A new study by the National Association of Home Builders says the home building industry in Wisconsin more than pays for itself, providing new income and jobs for state residents along with added revenue for state and local governments.
(2010/02/09)
A Madison lobbyist was charged Monday with felony theft and identity theft for allegedly using her employer’s credit card for personal expenses.
(2010/02/09)
On the strength of two wins last week, Wisconsin moved up five spots to No. 11 in The Associated Press rankings released Monday.
(2010/02/09)
The Little Barre HCE Club will sponsor a program about depression at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, at Hamilton Town Hall, N5105 N. Leonard St, West Salem.
(2010/02/08)
A winter weather advisory is in effect from noon today to 6 p.m. Tuesday for the La Crosse area.
(2010/02/08)
After Bernie Treichel had a heart attack in December, she received the standard treatment: angioplasty, in which doctors propped open her clogged arteries with stents.
(2010/02/08)
Kari Oberloh and her husband, Jesse, traded shifts through the night, holding their wheezing, coughing 4-month-old daughter, Gretchen.
(2010/02/08)
Nearly 62 percent of adults in Wisconsin have read a newspaper in the last day and nearly 83 percent have read one in the previous week, according to an industry study.
(2010/02/05)
The Onalaska Police Department is warning citizens to be alert for a scam operating in the area. Unknown parties have been contacting citizens claiming to be raising money to purchase bullet-proof vests for Onalaska police officers.
(2010/02/05)
The Onalaska OmniCenter and A&P Enterprises have reached an agreement to bring the carnival back to the OmniCenter for the Memorial Day weekend in 2010, despite the cancellation of this year’s Sunfish Days celebration.
(2010/02/05)
More than 100,000 state residents could lose their unemployment benefits by the end of April unless emergency measures are taken soon, state lawmakers warned Thursday.
(2010/02/05)
A celebrity basketball game at Onalaska High School will raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation of Western Wisconsin.
(2010/02/05)
A judge has declared that a former aide to John Edwards is in contempt, demanding that he turn over a "personal" videotape being sought by Edwards’ former mistress.
(2010/02/05)
A Rhode Island man who says he couldn’t afford medical care for his dog has been charged with illegally operating on the pet.
(2010/02/05)
Members of the Wisconsin National Guard will be among relief workers dispatched to Haiti next week, officials said Wednesday.
(2010/02/05)
There is a future in poverty, and that unfortunate fact has become thought for food at the UW-Madison, where its poverty research program was chosen this week to host the nation’s research on meeting the needs of the hungry.
(2010/02/05)
Milwaukee-based Harley Davidson would be named Wisconsin’s official motorcycle under a bill that’s gaining momentum in the Legislature.
(2010/02/05)
Months after authorities focused a homicide investigation on James Arthur Ray, the motivational speaker was indicted on manslaughter charges that could land him in prison and topple his self-help empire.
(2010/02/05)
What should a song cost online? Not 99 cents and certainly not $1.29, the going price for a song on digital market leader iTunes, according to a study reported by Yahoo tech blogger Christopher Null.
(2010/02/05)
MADISON -- The eighth defendant arrested in a roundup of nine heroin dealers last August has been sentenced to eight years in prison.
(2010/02/03)
A La Crosse County judge has ruled the town of Onalaska board violated a former administrator’s contract when it eliminated his position in late summer.
(2010/02/03)
WEST SALEM - A field of 17 candidates has been narrowed to three finalists for superintendent of the West Salem School District.
(2010/02/03)
For the woman who was a victim of domestic abuse, it was a relief when a Columbia County prosecutor dismissed an unfounded domestic battery charge against her about five years ago.
(2010/02/03)
Wisconsin Department of Labor Secretary Roberta Gassman said energy efficiency, new green jobs and worker training initiatives would be the key to a slow but steady recovery from the current recession, following a tour Tuesday of Teel Plastics, a Baraboo firm which claims to be poised for growth following a year with no net job losses.
(2010/02/03)
A live domesticated rodent named Jimmy, prodded into the budding daylight Tuesday in Sun Prairie, cast no shadow, transmitting the news of an early spring as a light snow fell about his ears, which were partly and ironically shadowed by a comical hat.
(2010/02/03)
A 22-year-old UW-Madison student diagnosed with bacterial meningitis died Tuesday at UW Hospital surrounded by friends and family.
(2010/02/01)
Hundreds packed the Capitol rotunda earlier this month for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance, complete with bands, choir singers and speakers. But the program didn’t include any speeches from Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton, who wasn’t invited.
(2010/02/01)
MADISON, Wis. - Standards for selling honey in Wisconsin would be established under a bill making its way through the Legislature.
(2010/02/01)
The fallout from Sarah Palin’s hasty retreat as governor is being cleaned up by the man she appointed attorney general in her waning days in office.
(2010/02/01)
MADISON, Wis. - For a second time, a judge has delayed the trial of a Wisconsin prison inmate charged with assisting in the suicide of his cellmate.
(2010/02/01)
Dozens of states have begun selling Powerball and Mega Millions tickets in what could be a step toward an eventual national lottery.
(2010/02/01)
Herbie, the giant American elm tree, is giving his trunk over to science.
(2010/02/01)
Tom Beebe has an idea for raising $850 million a year for Wisconsin schools, easing property taxes for homeowners and buying some time to devise a long-term solution to the state’s Byzantine school funding system — raise the state’s 5 percent sales tax by 1 percentage point.
(2010/02/01)
Republican candidate for governor Scott Walker says he had more than $2 million cash on hand heading into this election year.
(2010/02/01)
from La Crosse Diocese A western Wisconsin priest is accused of embezzling $196,000 from the Diocese of La Crosse and two Crawford County parishes.
(2010/02/01)
The La Crosse District of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge will celebrate the awarding of a contract to Arrowhead Contracting for the construction of an office and visitor center facility on Brice Prairie.
(2010/02/01)
Viterbo University will present the award-winning dramatic comedy, “Anton in Show Business,” in the Fine Arts Center La Croix Black Box Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 4-6.
(2010/02/01)
Wisconsin schools would have to teach how to properly use birth control as part of sex education classes under a bill that has passed the state Senate.
(2010/02/01)
Carbon monoxide detectors would be required in all single family and two-family homes in Wisconsin under a bill being considered by the Legislature.
(2010/02/01)
The state Senate has passed a bill that will make it easier for poor people to be represented by public defenders.
(2010/02/01)
After decades without rail service between Madison and Milwaukee, an infusion of more than $800 million in federal stimulus money could establish passenger train service between the state’s two largest cities by 2013.
(2010/02/01)
If pills, patches, sprays, inhalers, lozenges or gum haven’t helped you stop smoking, maybe some shots can. A UW-Madison study of an experimental nicotine vaccine seeks 60 adult smokers to roll up their sleeves for six injections over six months.
(2010/02/01)
Asian carp continue to cause a commotion. On Thursday, their approaching presence into the waters of the Great Lakes has prompted the much-anticipated White House meeting between Obama administration officials and several Great Lakes governors to be held Feb. 8.
(2010/01/30)
La Crosse Area Harley-Davidson in Onalaska will host the fifth annual chili cook-off to benefit Operation Homefront from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30.
(2010/01/30)
The second annual Taste of Onalaska event featuring many local eateries, caterers and vendors, will be held from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30, at Stoney Creek Inn in Onalaska. In addition to food, there will be live entertainment, a silent auction and a Chinese raffle.
(2010/01/30)
Donations of formal dresses and accessories (shoes and jewelry) are being sought for a dress drive to be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30, at Holmen Village Hall.
(2010/01/29)
LAS VEGAS -- Miss Wisconsin Kristina Smaby is one of 12 Miss America contestants to be featured on a pre-pageant show tonight on TLC.
(2010/01/25)
A U.S. Supreme Court decision Thursday to strike down longstanding restrictions on corporate political contributions should mean more information for voters but might render the candidates somewhat irrelevant, state Rep. Mike Huebsch said.
(2010/01/25)
Story By Mary Spicuzza | Lee Newspapers Republican U.S. Senate candidate Terrence Wall has not paid personal state income taxes in nine of the last 10 years, according to state Department of Revenue figures obtained from the liberal group One Wisconsin Now.
(2010/01/25)
Story By JUDY NEWMAN | Lee Newspapers Keep an eye on your bank statements; experts warn that you may be hit with new or higher charges for all sorts of services this year because new federal rules will limit the use of overdraft fees, a lucrative revenue source for banks.
(2010/01/25)
U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl’s regional representative for western Wisconsin, John Medinger, will be in Bangor on Tuesday, Jan. 26, to meet with constituents from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Bangor Village Hall, 100 17th Ave N. Bangor. No appointment is necessary.
(2010/01/25)
La Crosse County has created a new "e-report" to update residents on county government actions - but at least one supervisor sees a potential darker purpose.
(2010/01/25)
Registration is open for the 29th annual American Cancer Society 5K Family Run/Walk, which will be held April 18 in Onalaska.
(2010/01/25)
The Coulee Region has long been a target market for junior and minor-league hockey franchises. It just never worked out. Until now.
(2010/01/25)
With federal health care reform hitting obstacles, Gov. Jim Doyle on Thursday proposed a stripped-down health plan to cover tens of thousands of financially struggling state residents.
(2010/01/25)
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court threw out a 63-year-old law designed to restrain the influence of big business and unions on elections Thursday, ruling that corporations may spend as freely as they like to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress. The decision could drastically alter who gives and gets hundreds of millions of dollars in this year’s crucial midterm elections.
(2010/01/25)
Wisconsin has begun to re-examine its get-tough-on-juveniles laws as research shows an adolescent’s brain is more impulsive and less rational than an adult’s, and young people locked up in the adult system are much more likely to re-offend.
(2010/01/25)
Wisconsin Tourism Secretary Kelli Trumble and Kathy Kopp of the Governor’s Council on Tourism and executive director of the Platteville Area Chamber of Commerceare coming to Onalaska for a Feb. 3 listening session about tourism.
(2010/01/25)
What if a tornado struck Mindoro, an ice storm downed power lines and left hundreds of homes and farms without power, a flood ravaged the coulees or a chemical spill made immediate evacuation a necessity?
(2010/01/25)
ONALASKA - The OmniCenter will be the new home of a North American Hockey League team currently in Mason City, Iowa. While a contract isn’t inked yet, the Community Development Authority board Wednesday night removed the last major hurdle to bringing the team to Onalaska. A final contract is expected to be signed before the end of the month.
(2010/01/25)
State lawmakers started poring over a sweeping renewable energy bill Wednesday, establishing battle lines as the measure inches toward a vote.
(2010/01/25)
Major state agencies are now getting 10 percent of their electricity from renewable sources, but to do it, they paid a premium of $1.4 million last year — 29 percent more than expected.
(2010/01/25)
The White House said Wednesday it wants to hold a meeting in early February with Great Lakes governors concerned about Asian carp invading the lakes.
(2010/01/25)
Teams of medical professionals from southern Wisconsin were planning to head into earthquake-ravaged Haiti as soon as they can get there.
(2010/01/25)
A former executive of Milwaukee-based Koss Corp. is accused of embezzling $31 million from the headphone manufacturer and spending it on clothes, jewelry and other items.
(2010/01/25)
WAUNAKEE — Google the words “stamp rental,” and websites about concrete will top the list of results, but two Dane County women have started a new kind of stamp rental business, geared toward crafters, not contractors.
(2010/01/20)
A wintry mix of freezing rain, drizzle, snow and sleet is coming to southern Wisconsin, with roads and sidewalks expected to be slick Wednesday night into Thursday.
(2010/01/20)
Mike Cleary said driving while texting is dangerous and should be illegal. But Cleary, a 33-year-old coffee shop employee, said he is "100 percent guilty" and last texted behind the wheel two or three days ago.
(2010/01/20)
Just about every number was a grim one for Wisconsin farmers in 2009, particularly in dairy.
(2010/01/20)
A shortage of dentists treating low-income patients will continue unless Medicaid payments increase, federal clinics expand or dental school enrollment changes, according a study to be released Wednesday by the Wisconsin Dental Association.
(2010/01/20)
The pioneer spirit shown in "Little House on the Prairie" lives on.
(2010/01/20)
Dan Jenkins, the famed sportswriter from Texas, likes to say that the first rule in sports is what could have happened, did.
(2010/01/20)
After two flights to Volk Field near Camp Douglas Monday, all but 20 of the approximately 3,200 state Wisconsin National Guard soldiers that have been on a nearly yearlong mission with the 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team are back in the U.S. The group spent most of their time in Iraq.
(2010/01/20)
A dozen Haiti mission workers from La Crosse are expected home later today, a week after the epic earthquake devastated the impoverished island nation.
(2010/01/20)
La Crosse has become one of the first cities in Wisconsin — if not the first — to duck a new federal law designed to make insurance coverage for mental illness equal to coverage provided for other health problems.
(2010/01/20)
Real estate developer Terrence Wall, a newcomer to statewide politics who is seeking the Republican nomination to challenge Russ Feingold, on Monday called the three-term U.S. senator a career politician who has lost touch with ordinary voters.
(2010/01/20)
Stoughton police have arrested two boys suspected of making bomb threats that prompted the temporary evacuation of 18 hospital patients.
(2010/01/20)
On the day Deborah Blum set her hair on fire, she was dreaming of being a chemist. One of her long braids brushed a Bunsen burner and a moment later a grad student in the lab said, “Do you smell smoke?”
(2010/01/20)
CAMP DOUGLAS — On Sgt. Tony Reinhart’s left arm and Sgt. Brad Hafner’s right are matching tattoos they had inked when they returned from basic training.
(2010/01/20)
MADISON — Tickets for not wearing a seat belt are up dramatically in Wisconsin after a change in state law last year empowered police to go after drivers and passengers solely because they were not buckled up.
(2010/01/20)
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is dragging its heels in addressing charges that four UW System coal-fired plants are violating the federal Clean Air Act, an environmental group says.
(2010/01/20)
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett will make his first statewide campaign tour as a Democratic candidate for governor this week.
(2010/01/20)
The first time Dr. Darold Treffert and Kim Peek spoke was by telephone.
(2010/01/15)
Katie Gerke remembers standing on the street corner trying to catch just one last glimpse of her sons’ faces on a cold January day. This morning, she was trying to catch the first. Gerke’s sons were among the 750 troops from the 32nd Infantry Brigade returning Thursday and today. Despite the frigid temperatures and late hour - the plane landed about 1:30 a.m. today - the tent was packed with military families eager to spend a short time with their soldiers before they travel to Fort McCoy for five days of demobilization.
(2010/01/15)
Ben Larson, a seminary student and son of former La Crosse ELCA Bishop April Larson, is presumed dead in Haiti after a massive earthquake destroyed the building where he was staying.
(2010/01/15)
Lawmakers on Thursday morning rejected a plan to use $3 million in federal stimulus funding to restrict the sale of candy-flavored tobacco products that critics say are aimed at youths.
(2010/01/15)
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether it was legal for lawmakers to use $200 million from a medical malpractice fund to help balance the state budget.
(2010/01/15)
Madison has been named the fifth-gayest city in America by Advocate Magazine, a national gay and lesbian news magazine and Web site.
(2010/01/15)
Even before he got back from Iraq, Sgt. Kevin Johnson had deer hunting on his mind. So Johnson, who deployed with the Wisconsin National Guard’s 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, wrote to state lawmakers with an idea: Establish a special deer season for the thousands of returning soldiers who missed the chance to hunt this fall.
(2010/01/15)
State officials are seeking $3 million in federal stimulus money to snuff out candy-flavored chewing tobacco and cigars that critics say are aimed at youths.
(2010/01/15)
The public would have greater access to records on the doctors, pharmacists and psychologists licensed by the state to care for them, under a bill before the Legislature.
(2010/01/15)
At the end of her freshman year at Madison Area Technical College, 19-year-old Andrea Garcia was working two jobs so she could afford the independence of having her own apartment.
(2010/01/15)
A state lawmaker has agreed to a plea deal to resolve one of three impaired driving cases against him, his attorney said Wednesday.
(2010/01/15)
Sentencing has been postponed for the Milwaukee woman who abandoned her newborn in a bag on her neighbor’s car.
(2010/01/13)
MADISON - A bill that would erase the statute of limitations on civil lawsuits against child sex abusers could drive Catholic dioceses in Wisconsin bankrupt, Milwaukee’s new archbishop told lawmakers Tuesday.
(2010/01/13)
There won’t be a quick end to the U.S. recession, according to two economists.
(2010/01/13)
A University of Wisconsin-Madison investigation has found no retaliation against an employee at its fertility clinic who was fired after she complained of sexual harassment.
(2010/01/13)
The Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection is considering whether it can safely allow the sale of raw milk to consumers in Wisconsin.
(2010/01/13)
The car leaves for Arizona on Sunday, driven in an enclosed trailer. Justin Cole will fly down on Tuesday.
(2010/01/13)
Former Bangor High School band members will have an opportunity dust off their instruments and play with the current Bangor pep band for a boy’s basketball game on Friday, Jan. 15.
(2010/01/12)
CAMP DOUGLAS, Wis. - The first soldiers strode into the hangar, girlfriends, wives and mothers on their arms. Rachel Beauchene watched. Her mother held a sign. Whitby Beauchene slept through it all. Two months old, he’d never met his dad.
(2010/01/12)
Last fall, forecasters were banking on El Nino’s tempering effects to create a relatively mild Wisconsin winter but got blind-sided by the twitch of something called the Arctic Oscillation, an atmospheric flow pattern in northern middle and high latitudes.
(2010/01/12)
Sweat would be in and sweets would be out at Wisconsin schools under a bill aimed at improving students’ health and preventing diseases such as diabetes.
(2010/01/12)
It’s been dubbed the "roadkill equity bill." Currently, if a motorist crashes into a deer and kills it, that person can keep the carcass if he or she gets permission and a tag. But not so for other animals, such as bears and wild turkeys.
(2010/01/12)
Twenty endangered whooping cranes have landed in Florida.
(2010/01/11)
Investors in Wisconsin stocks had reason to smile -- for the most part -- when they checked their portfolios on New Year’s Day.
(2010/01/11)
Wisconsin judges have a new set of jury instruction to caution jurors in criminal trials against using handheld mobile devices to look up facts or communicate about the case.
(2010/01/11)
A trial begins for the Racine man accused of fatally punching a Kenosha middle-school teacher.
(2010/01/11)
Writers from Milwaukee and Chicago have won a screenwriters’ contest through the nonprofit Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum.
(2010/01/11)
A group of friends in Green Bay has come up with a good way to kill some time in this Wisconsin winter: Build the world’s biggest domed igloo.
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