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WIZMnews.com A new program offered through Great Rivers United Way provides people with a way to get digital access.   Working with the United Way of Wisconsin, Great Rivers United Way (GRUW) plans to distribute more than 700 no-cost laptop loans through the Techquity WI program.  The program runs for the next two years. The…

WIZMnews.com An accidental gas line break led to a brief evacuation at Onalaska Middle School on Wednesday. The school district says the gas line was struck inadvertently, during construction happening at the middle school. Xcel Energy and the Onalaska Fire Department inspected the building after students and staff left the school. The gas was turned…

WIZMnews.com A new program offered through Great Rivers United Way provides people with a way to get digital access.   Working with the United Way of Wisconsin, Great Rivers United Way (GRUW) plans to distribute more than 700 no-cost laptop loans through the Techquity WI program.  The program runs for the next two years. The…

WIZMnews.com An accidental gas line break led to a brief evacuation at Onalaska Middle School on Wednesday. The school district says the gas line was struck inadvertently, during construction happening at the middle school. Xcel Energy and the Onalaska Fire Department inspected the building after students and staff left the school. The gas was turned…

WIZMnews.com The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided to fast-track permits for building a protective tunnel around an aging Enbridge oil pipeline that runs beneath a channel connecting two Great Lakes, stoking environmentalists’ fears that the project will escape scrutiny, damage the sensitive region and perpetuate fossil fuel use. The move comes after President…

WIZMnews.com WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday said he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt of court for violating his orders to turn around planes carrying deportees to El Salvador. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg warned he could refer the matter for prosecution if the administration does not…

WIZMnews.com La Crosse’s new mayor is now in office. Shaundel Washington-Spivey took the oath at a Tuesday afternoon ceremony in La Crosse City Hall. Washington-Spivey, a former La Crosse School Board member who started and is executive director of the nonprofit B.L.A.C.K. (Black Leaders Acquiring Collective Knowledge) was elected the city’s first black and openly-gay…

WIZMnews.com The La Crosse city council has a new president, with Tamra Dickinson being elected to the post on Tuesday. Dickinson has represented District 1 on the north side of La Crosse for two years. She was chosen as president at Tuesday’s council organizational meeting, receiving 8 votes to 5 for Barb Janssen, who is…

WIZMnews.com La Crosse Schools superintendent, Dr. Aaron Engel, joins to discuss potential “DEI” federal funding cuts, the next steps for new La Crosse School Board members, his going to a state Budget Listening session, and the District Vision survey going out next week. La Crosse Talk airs weekdays at 6-8 a.m. Listen on the WIZM…

WIZMnews.com WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Wednesday sued Maine for not complying with the government’s push to ban transgender athletes in girls and women’s sports, escalating a dispute over whether the state is abiding by a federal law that bars discrimination in education based on sex. The lawsuit follows weeks of feuding between the Republican…