As a new year is about to start, a home-building project in La Crosse is seeing rapid growth. In just a little over two years, the...
Men went into orbit around the moon for the very first time on Christmas Eve of 1968. The Apollo 8 spacecraft circled the moon until Christmas...
On one day in February of 1959, La Crosse got 8 inches of snow. It was called the worst winter storm of that season…until another storm...
A special task for unanimously voted La Crosse should get a fifth fire station. The fire station planning committee is recommending construction of a fifth building...
Chamber supported Indian statue project as tourism attraction around 1960
In late 1990, the La Crosse park department was discussing plans for building a boardwalk in Riverside Park. The department wanted to install 32 boat slips...
During December of 1963, Americans were still adjusting to the November assassination of President John-F Kennedy, and to the new president, Lyndon Johnson. Don Medinger of...
La Crosse’s history and culture have been a topic of debate recently, over how the area’s people are represented through art. Now, the city is looking...
In December of 1967, the Marching Chiefs band from La Crosse State was getting ready for nationwide exposure. According to a story in the campus newspaper,...
A storm in February of 1922 brought up to four inches of ice to central Wisconsin, and 2 inches to La Crosse over a 3-day period....
La Crosse is already ahead of the curve in efforts to avoid drug overdoses on college campuses. The Wisconsin justice department made a deal with a...
Todd Kendhammer has been found guilty of murdering his wife Barbara. A jury from La Crosse County took nine hours, well into the night Thursday, to...
Around Christmastime of 1984, La Crosse Mayor Pat Zielke launched another re-election campaign. Zielke was finishing up 10 years in the 6th floor office at City...
La Crosse doesn’t stack up so well as a college town, apparently. WalletHub’s newest study on “2018’s Best College Towns & Cities in America” ranks La...
Time again to nominate your favorite bar, store or even radio personality for the Best of La Crosse honors. Now, if you’re thinking ‘Didn’t we just...
It was on December 8th in 1980 when John Lennon was shot and killed outside his New York apartment building by an obsessed fan who had...
Audrey Kader believes artworks with a historic or cultural theme are meant to represent history, not just the public’s feeling at one moment in time. The...
In the summer of 1975, hang gliding was becoming a fad in the Midwest, with the bluffs along the Mississippi used as jumping-off spots. A group...
Changing attitudes in society could lead to the removal of certain works of art in La Crosse, such as the Hiawatha statue in Riverside Park. Speakers...
The biggest court case of 2012 in La Crosse County was the double murder trial of Eric Koula. That June, a jury found Koula guilty of...