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WIZMnews.com Jordan Shaffer and Cam Tschanz in the WIZM studio for La Crosse Talk promoting Thursday’s plant sale at Western Technical College. Shaffer and Tschanz are botany students at WTC and are helping organize the Landscape and Horticulture Club’s spring sale from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Horticulture Education Center (map). La Crosse…

WIZMnews.com Kahya Fox in the WIZM studio for La Crosse Talk to preview Habitat for Humanity’s first-ever La Crosse Housing Week, as well as Conductor Wannabe Kelly Colgan talking Habitat For Heroes. La Crosse Talk airs weekdays at 6-8 a.m. Listen on the WIZM app, online here, or on 92.3 FM / 1410 AM / 106.7…

WIZMnews.com A release plan was approved Thursday for the suspect in a recent La Crosse shooting. The bond for 19-year-old Jaysen Moran of La Crosse has been reduced to $1,000. Jail records show that Moran was released later in the day. La Crosse County Judge Elliott Levine said in court that Moran can be on…

WIZMnews.com The Minnesota Department of Health on Thursday provided an update for people wanting to eat what they catch in the state’s rivers, lakes, and streams.  The new guidelines are related to PFAS chemicals found in fish in ten of Minnesota’s counties.  Known as “forever chemicals”, PFAS are linked to developmental issues with infants and…

WIZMnews.com SAN SALVADOR (AP) — Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen says he was denied entry into the El Salvador prison where Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held. Van Hollen, a Democrat, is in El Salvador to push for Abrego Garcia’s release after he was sent there by the Trump administration in March despite an immigration court order preventing his…

WIZMnews.com NEW YORK (AP) — Target’s chief executive officer met Thursday with the Rev. Al Sharpton, whose civil rights organization has encouraged consumers to avoid U.S. retailers that scaled backed their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Sharpton called the meeting with Target CEO Brian Cornell “very constructive and candid,” according to an update from his National Action Network. Two other…

WIZMnews.com MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin Elections Commission discussion of uncounted ballots in Madison devolved into a shouting match Thursday, with the Democratic chair threatening to kick a Republican commissioner out of the meeting. The commission is investigating former Madison City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl after she failed to count 200 absentee ballots in the November election…

WIZMnews.com Parents, grab your kids for the “Fired up for Science” event happening at Viterbo University on Tuesday. Viterbo chemistry professor, Dr. Kyle Backstrand, stopped in the WIZM studio to talks about some of the things people will see there, like gummy bear sacrifices, slime, elephant toothpaste and more. La Crosse Talk airs weekdays at…

WIZMnews.com I asked the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire one very simple question: Is José Felipe Alvergue, the professor accused of violently intimidating conservative students on campus, on a paid or unpaid administrative leave? UW-Eau Claire passed me off to its media relations director for the entire Universities of Wisconsin. Its response: “This is an ongoing…

WIZMnews.com Kahya Fox in the WIZM studio for La Crosse Talk to preview Habitat for Humanity’s first-ever La Crosse Housing Week, as well as Conductor Wannabe Kelly Colgan talking Habitat For Heroes. La Crosse Talk airs weekdays at 6-8 a.m. Listen on the WIZM app, online here, or on 92.3 FM / 1410 AM / 106.7…