Category: wizm

WIZMnews.com MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Democratic-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court defeated a challenger endorsed by President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday, cementing a liberal majority for at least three more years. Susan Crawford, a Dane County judge who led legal fights to protect union power and abortion rights and to oppose voter ID, defeated…

WIZMnews.com A coalition of states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its decision to cut $11 billion in federal funds that go toward COVID-19 initiatives and various public health projects across the country. Attorneys general and other officials from 23 states sued in federal court in Rhode Island. They include New York Attorney General Letitia James and Colorado Attorney…

WIZMnews.com Possibly a record for most people in the WIZM studio, students participating in iFeed this weekend joined to help preview the event. Around 200 students from seven Coulee Region high schools will be packing 80,000 meals from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at Logan High School. Those meals will be sent to a country…

WIZMnews.com Members of the La Crosse Fire Department were called to the Post Office building at 425 State Street early Tuesday afternoon where belongings from unsheltered people had caught fire. A cloud of smoke was visible to passersby briefly until the department was able to extinguish the fire. The area where the fire occurred was…

WIZMnews.com The suspect in a recent drug-related death in La Crosse County is now charged with new drug offenses. A new criminal complaint has been filed this week against Todd Pfaff of La Crosse. The 47-year-old is already accused of reckless homicide for another man’s overdose death, which occurred at a residence last summer. Pfaff…

WIZMnews.com For almost 100 years the La Crosse Skyrockers have put on a New Year’s Eve fireworks show on Grandad Bluff. The club has its equipment all set for two New Year’s Eve shows at 6 p.m. Tuesday and midnight. The New Year’s tradition began in the late 1920s, as a way to boost people’s…

WIZMnews.com It was a whirlwind of a year in La Crosse from just about every angle. Presidential campaigns barnstormed the city, including the very last day before the election. Leadership at UW-La Crosse changed hands, while the city will be seeking someone new. And development in the area saw some things change — like every…

WIZMnews.com The owner of Pearl Street Books, Beth Hartung, and La Crescent’s public library director, Jess Witkins, stopped in the WIZM studio to discuss, what else, books, including the best of 2024, book bans, reading as a New Year’s resolution, and what’s changed in popularity over the year and years. This is part of a…

WIZMnews.com Here’s a look at the Top 25 heading into ‘25 most viewed WIZM News stories of the year.  The most notable being the two (Nos. 2 and 7) about La Crosse Talk host Mike Hayes, announcing his pancreatic cancer in September and his passing on Thanksgiving. Hayes hosted La Crosse Talk beginning in 1986…

WIZMnews.com New Year’s resolutions can mean many things for many people. A kickoff to being healthier, working out, losing weight, giving up a vice or reading more. But what those resolutions are mostly about are failure. This isn’t about you starting some new, or kicking some old habits, though. This about the Wisconsin state Legislature.…