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WIZMnews.com Before Valley View Mall opened in 1980, shopping in La Crosse happened downtown, mostly between 4th and 6th Streets. The big local name was Doerflinger’s at 4th and Main. At the opposite end of the same block, you could find Herberger’s on 5th, and not too far from there were Sears and JCPenney. For…

WIZMnews.com The La Crosse city council is being asked to choose between two competing plans for the former fire station on Monitor Street. On Thursday, the council Finance and Personnel Committee voted 3-1 against a purchase offer of $325,000 for the building from Karl Schilling, representing a company called Property Logic. A second offer of…

WIZMnews.com A 40-year-old woman, accused of vehicular homicide for a pedestrian death in Onalaska, could be scheduled for trial soon. Megan Urch of Onalaska had a court hearing on Thursday, where La Crosse County Judge Ramona Gonzalez found probable cause to hold a trial. Onalaska police detective Chad Marcon testified in court Thursday that video…

WIZMnews.com Wisconsin’s governor came to La Crosse on Wednesday to hear people’s concerns, during a listening session at Northside Elementary School. On what he called a “cruddy night” with wind and snow, Gov. Tony Evers sat in on small group discussions to hear comments about transportation and education. But Evers says food insecurity turned out…

WIZMnews.com Sarah Butler from Around River City drops in the WIZM studio Thursday to chat with La Crosse Talk host Ken Cooper about what’s happening this weekend, plus a little fun with the most mispronounced words of 2024, and special holiday cocktails from local establishments. La Crosse Talk airs weekdays at 6-8 a.m. Listen on…

WIZMnews.com It’s nearly complete, the end of the “Blue Light Special,” could be coming to a close nearly 65 years after it began. The last full-size Kmart in the continental U.S., located in Bridgehampton, New York, closed in October, while a fraction of a story in Miami remains. There, are four others out there —…

WIZMnews.com Bill Soper, the president of the La Crosse Area YMCAs, joins to reminisce a bit about doing segments for 30 years with Mike Hayes, who passed away last week. We also got a bit of an update on a future YMCA in Holmen, plus how the La Crosse YMCAs have evolved to more than…

WIZMnews.com It seems that each year when we approach the holiday shopping season, there are more choices than the year before.  You have stores that have online websites.  You have online websites that you can ship your purchase to the actual store.  You have the big box retailers and then you have my favorite choice,…

WIZMnews.com You could call it an early Christmas gift to La Crosse elementary schools. Literary grants from the La Crosse Public Education Foundation are providing new books to local public school classes from kindergarten to 5th grade. School superintendent Aaron Engel stopped by Northside Elementary on Wednesday, as kids there were starting to check out…

WIZMnews.com Wisconsin’s governor came to La Crosse on Wednesday to hear people’s concerns, during a listening session at Northside Elementary School. On what he called a “cruddy night” with wind and snow, Gov. Tony Evers sat in on small group discussions to hear comments about transportation and education. But Evers says food insecurity turned out…