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WIZMnews.com The owner and chef of Piggy’s Restaurant is retiring. Chris Roderique ends a 46-year career in the culinary industry. He’s best known for Piggy’s Restaurant which he’s owned since 2001. A statement announcing his retirement estimates that Piggy’s has served an estimated 2.5 million guests since he first took over the restaurant. Roderique also…

WIZMnews.com WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers slowed hiring last month, but still added a solid 139,000 jobs amid uncertainty over President Donald Trump’s trade wars. Hiring fell from a revised 147,000 in April, the Department of Labor said Friday. The job gains last month were above the 130,000 that economists had forecast. Healthcare companies added 62,000…

WIZMnews.com MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Trump administration has accused the Wisconsin Elections Commission of failing to provide a state-based complaint process for voters bringing allegations against the commission itself, calling that a violation of federal law and threatening to withhold all federal funding. But the commission’s Democratic chairwoman said Thursday there is no federal…

WIZMnews.com WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s watchdog is looking into whether any of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s aides were asked to delete Signal messages that may have shared sensitive military information with a reporter, according to two people familiar with the investigation and documents reviewed by The Associated Press. The inspector general’s request focuses on how information about the March…

WIZMnews.com Remember when Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen did concerts in La Crosse, at the old Sawyer Auditorium? If you don’t remember, it’s because the scheduled shows didn’t actually happen. Fifty years ago, in the summer of 1975, the Tribune reported on music stars who were supposed to perform at the old auditorium, but cancelled…

WIZMnews.com Right now, the media is not focusing enough — or at all — on the steady stream of harm the Trump Administration is doing to Wisconsin farmers. After running as a champion of rural America, Trump has enacted policy after policy that hits farmers’ pocketbooks. The on-again, off-again trade wars prevent farmers from selling…

WIZMnews.com You can now buy cat scratching posts made from rugs collected earlier this year as part of trip-hazard prevention program. The La Crosse Fire Department and Emplify Health by Gundersen received more than 100 rugs though the Mugs for Rugs program. The program aimed to reduce the potential for falls by seniors. In April,…

WIZMnews.com The Donald Trump-Elon Musk breakup is underway, and UW-La Crosse political science professor Dr. Anthony Chergosky was in studio Friday for La Crosse Talk to explain why Wisconsin could to blame. La Crosse Talk airs weekdays at 6-8 a.m. Listen on the WIZM app, online here, or on 92.3 FM / 1410 AM / 106.7…

WIZMnews.com BOSTON (AP) — Democratic state attorneys general on Friday sought to block President Donald Trump’s proposal for a sweeping overhaul of U.S. elections in a case that tests a constitutional bedrock — the separation of powers. The top law enforcement officials from 19 states filed a federal lawsuit after the Republican president signed the executive order in March,…

WIZMnews.com If you like donuts, Friday is a good day for you…plus you can help out a local organization. Fifty cents of each donut sold at Linda’s Bakery in West Salem on Friday goes for the support of the Make a House a Home program run by the Salvation Army in La Crosse. When someone…