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WIZMnews.com City leaders in La Crosse are moving closer to changing rules for providing off-street parking. On Tuesday, the council judiciary committee approved a plan that could reduce the volume of parking lots required in residential areas. Citizens who spoke to the committee argued that a large percentage of La Crosse residents don’t drive or…

WIZMnews.com Is too much space in La Crosse being taken up by off-street parking lots? City council members are looking this month at possibly repealing existing requirements for parking off the street. The suggested changes are included in city committee agendas, leading up to the December council meeting next week. Supporters of a change suggest…

WIZMnews.com MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge’s overturning of Wisconsin’s 13-year-old law that effectively ended collective bargaining for teachers and most state government employees has rekindled a battle over labor rights in a state where the first public sector unions were formed 65 years ago. But before unions head back to the bargaining table, more legal fights…

WIZMnews.com A trial will be scheduled in a La Crosse murder case dating back to last January. Alan Fry has entered a plea of not guilty, because of mental disease. He’s accused of shooting his stepfather, Brady Fredrickson. The murder happened at a house on Farnam Street. The 42-year-old Fry could be examined for competence…

WIZMnews.com Prolific receiver Sterling Sharpe and Super Bowl-winning coach Mike Holmgren advanced to the final stage of voting for the 2025 Pro Football Hall of Fame class. Sharpe was picked as one of three finalists in the Seniors category for players whose career ended in 1999 or earlier, along with Maxie Baughan and Jim Tyrer,…

WIZMnews.com MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin public worker and teachers unions scored a major legal victory Monday with a ruling that restores collective bargaining rights they lost under a 2011 state law that sparked weeks of protests and made the state the center of the national battle over union rights. That law, known as Act…

WIZMnews.com Is too much space in La Crosse being taken up by off-street parking lots? City council members are looking this month at possibly repealing existing requirements for parking off the street. The suggested changes are included in city committee agendas, leading up to the December council meeting next week. Supporters of a change suggest…

WIZMnews.com A trial will be scheduled in a La Crosse murder case dating back to last January. Alan Fry has entered a plea of not guilty, because of mental disease. He’s accused of shooting his stepfather, Brady Fredrickson. The murder happened at a house on Farnam Street. The 42-year-old Fry could be examined for competence…

WIZMnews.com MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin public worker and teachers unions scored a major legal victory Monday with a ruling that restores collective bargaining rights they lost under a 2011 state law that sparked weeks of protests and made the state the center of the national battle over union rights. That law, known as Act…

WIZMnews.com MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge’s overturning of Wisconsin’s 13-year-old law that effectively ended collective bargaining for teachers and most state government employees has rekindled a battle over labor rights in a state where the first public sector unions were formed 65 years ago. But before unions head back to the bargaining table, more legal fights…