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WIZMnews.com La Crosse’s Rotary Lights are back for another holiday season, but the park didn’t light up exactly on cue as planned on Friday night. Most years, the vast array of lights in the park comes on when Santa Claus operates a large switch on the bandshell stage. Santa counted down a few times, but…

WIZMnews.com Long-time WIZM talk show host Mike Hayes has passed away, a few months after being diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. Hayes was a familiar figure in La Crosse broadcasting for nearly 40 years. The Michigan native had worked on radio in several cities before arriving at WIZM in June of 1986. Hayes had hosted…

WIZMnews.com Long-time WIZM talk show host Mike Hayes has passed away, a few months after being diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. Hayes was a familiar figure in La Crosse broadcasting for nearly 40 years. The Michigan native had worked on radio in several cities before arriving at WIZM in June of 1986. Hayes had hosted…

WIZMnews.com MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Eagle lovers around the world who were crushed by the live-streamed collapse of a nest housing two birds and their chick are getting another viewing opportunity as new eagle cameras are live. The new camera, operated by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, is in a different location and will show a different…

WIZMnews.com Think back to a time where your only concerns on Thanksgiving Day were who you were going to have to sit next to at the kids table or the adult table, how much the clothes you had to wear were going to itch and how much food you were going to try and eat…

WIZMnews.com UW-La Crosse football coach Matt Janus joined WIZM’s La Crosse Talk with Ken Cooper on Wednesday to chat a bit about Round 2 of the Division III playoffs Saturday, ahead of Thanksgiving. Janus and the No. 18 Eagles (7-3) face the third-ranked team in the country, unbeaten St. John’s (10-0). La Crosse Talk airs…

WIZMnews.com La Crosse Assistant Police Chief Jason Melby joined to talk about guns, mostly in reference to the city’s first-ever mass shooting, plus a bit about the parking situation downtown. We also, of course, had to work in some Thanksgiving themes, too.  La Crosse Talk PM airs weekdays at 5:06 p.m. Listen on the WIZM…

WIZMnews.com Thousands of tundra swans, ducks and other wildlife basking on the Mississippi River this holiday, according to the the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife & Fish Refuge. The refuge counted up between 500-600 tundra swans at the Brownsville Outlook, over the Mississippi and just south of La Crosse, in Brownsville, Minn. “There are at…

WIZMnews.com The historic odds are against getting any snow in La Crosse on Thanksgiving weekend. The National Weather Service – La Crosse publishes statistics for weather at the holiday, dating back to 1872. Forecasters said there has been snow on the ground for Thanksgiving in La Crosse only four times in the past 30 years.…

WIZMnews.com MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Eagle lovers around the world who were crushed by the live-streamed collapse of a nest housing two birds and their chick are getting another viewing opportunity as new eagle cameras are live. The new camera, operated by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, is in a different location and will show a different…