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The rules against homelessness in La Crosse are about to get tougher. The city council last night approved a ban on camping on city land. The idea is to move the homeless people in the city to new homes or programs, and out of the city’s parks. There is no clear timeline yet as to when they will begin to enforce the new camping ban.

Republican lawmakers want to know what taxpayers are getting for the billion-dollars-plus that they are spending on the University of Wisconsin. State Rep. Amanda Nedweski led the grilling that UW President Jay Rothman got yesterday at a hearing on the future of the UW System. She pressed Rothman about why the university needs more money from the state when there are fewer students and fewer campuses. Nedweski also pushed-back on the idea that the jobs of the future will require

Green Bay has lost its flights to Denver, for now. Frontier will end its flights to Denver on Monday. Frontier says it’s part of a seasonal adjustment, and plans to come back to Green Bay next year. Green Bay airport manager Marty Piette says the pause over the winter gives Frontier and the airport a chance to see how popular and successful the flights are. He says there’s some misinformation out there about the flights, and says he hopes that

More than a thousand road projects in Wisconsin are getting a combined 174-million dollars in funding from the state. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says the projects were chosen based on recommendations from local government leaders about roadways in the most need. The announcement comes one day after the state got 200-million from the federal government for more than 150 Wisconsin roads and bridges.

Almost a thousand speeding tickets and warnings were given out in Wisconsin in 24-hours. Wisconsin State Patrol released its numbers today for Speed Awareness Day last Wednesday. The average speeding rate was twenty miles-per-hour over the speed limit. Almost a hundred law enforcement agencies participated statewide.

One of four men charged with murdering another man outside a Milwaukee hotel is held on a 50-thousand dollar bond. Sixty-year-old Todd Erickson, the security manager for the downtown Hyatt Regency hotel, was in court today for the death of D’Vontaye Mitchell in June. The other three suspects are also employees at the hotel. Mitchell was restrained outside of the hotel after he was accused of barricading himself in the women’s bathroom inside. The medical examiner says he died of

There could be four other names on the ballot for president in Wisconsin this fall. The Wisconsin Elections Commission this week said four independent candidates have filed paperwork to make the November ballot. Cornel West, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as well as lesser known candidates Shiva Ayyadurai and Claudia De la Cruz all turned in their paperwork this week. WEC says it will now review their applications and signatures, and decide if they qualify for the ballot. Tomorrow is the

“The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.” ~ President Calvin Coolidge Sergeant Jack Hohlfeld, a native of La Crosse and Trempealeau, survived the brutal Bataan Death March during World War II and died while being held captive at the cruel Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp in the Philippines. Later buried in a common grave, Jack’s remains were only recently identified. Now, more than 80 years later, he is finally returning home to La Crosse and his funeral Mass

Eau Claire saw the candidates and the crowds yesterday. Both Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate as well as Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance and made stops in the city. They held rallies at almost the exact same time.  The dueling visits once again highlight just how important Wisconsin is to both sides in the November election. On that note, when it comes to peeking at the early poll trends, the latest Marquette Law School Poll once

The mother of the missing three-year-old boy from Two Rivers will not see her bail lowered. A judge yesterday once again rejected Katrina Bauer’s request to cut her bond from 15 thousand-dollars to a signature bond. She is being held on neglect charges for her son’s disappearance. Elijah Vue hasn’t been seen since February, and no one is saying what happened to the little boy. Bauer said she left him with her boyfriend. That boyfriend, Jesse Vang, is also being