In 1990, a special ceremony took place in Vernon County, where the State of Wisconsin formally apologized to native American tribes for the Bad Axe Massacre...
Two area drivers in their 50’s have been hurt in separate weekend accidents, in different counties. Near Stoddard, 54-year-old Kao Vang of La Crosse went around...
Vernon County marked its first traffic fatality in 2020 Sunday. The Sheriff’s Office was called to a one-vehicle accident on State Hwy. 56 near County Road...
Alcohol and speed appear to be factors in a UTV crash that sent two people to the hospital Thursday night. The accident happened around 10:30 p.m....
Two people were hurt in Vernon County Thursday, when their motorcycle flipped while trying to avoid a collision. James Powell of Whitehall swerved his cycle when...
It was no April Fools’ joke on April 1st of 1975, when La Crosse voters replaced two-term mayor Peter Gilbertson with city council president Patrick Zielke. The...
A 28-year-old man from De Soto has been killed in Vernon County’s first fatal crash of 2020. Kyle Deegan died Saturday afternoon, when his utility vehicle...
A driver in Vernon County faces his 5th OWI charge after knocking over a power pole in Genoa. Fifty-eight-year-old Steven Majeske of De Soto lost control...
The Vernon County Sheriff’s office responded to a van vs. motorcycle crash around 11:30 a.m. Friday. It happened on State Hwy 80 south of County Road...
A weekend kayaking trip in western Wisconsin turned into a rescue operation Sunday. Four women from northern Illinois became stranded on the banks of the Kickapoo...
The Vernon County Sheriff’s office responded to a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of County Road O and County Road K in the Town of Harmony...
The La Farge Police Department stopped a suspicious vehicle on State Highway 82 at around 11:17 p.m. on July 30 at the request of the Vernon...
Vernon County Sheriff’s Deputies investigated an airplane crash on private property on Thursday. Emergency responders found the plane in a soybean field near Highway 14 and...
Vernon County officials were hit with waves of relief after last week’s storms caused less flood damage in the area than expected. “The night of the...
A theft case in Vernon County may have been solved with the weekend arrest of a Richland Center man. Jeremy Stankovich was identified as the suspect...
A tornado warning, heavy rains and flash flooding put Vernon County’s emergency management crew to the test. Brandon Larson, the county’s emergency management director, said his...
A motorcycle rider was killed this weekend, after hitting a dog on Highway 35 near Stoddard, Wis. Michael Long of De Soto, Wis., hit the animal...
Storms throughout the Coulee Region have left several communities without electricity, for at least part of Thursday. Most of the city of Westby lost power around...
Bond is $250,000 for the Chaseburg man accused of fatally shooting his roommate over the weekend. David Stowe appeared by video link before a Vernon County...
A Chaseburg area man is suspected of murder, after a weekend shooting death in Vernon County. Fifty-nine-year-old David Stowe called 911 on Saturday, reporting suspicious activity...