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WIZMnews.com The Harry J. Olson Senior Center has attracted an award-winning chili-making champion as its chef for its kickoff to a capital campaign next week. Center leader Erin Goggin says the free lunch next week Wednesday from 11:00 to 1:00 at 1607 North Street, La Crosse, is to help raise money to remodel three bathrooms…

WIZMnews.com Fresh off of a national conference for real estate professionals and associations, Mike Pietek say home sales are expected to increase by 9% in 2025 followed by 13% increase in 2026. Pietek, the president of the La Crosse Area REALTORS Association, says the economist at the National Association of REALTORS Lawrence Yun predicted how…

WIZMnews.com La Crosse’s city council Thursday passed new rules about what activities will be allowed in city parking ramps. By a10-2 vote, the council approved an ordinance banning a broad range of trespassing in the ramps. That would essentially prohibit anything that isn’t parking-related from happing in the ramps. Activities like drinking, drug use, skateboarding,…

WIZMnews.com MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man was released from prison after serving 16 years for a murder he did not commit, a local prosecutor announced this week. Jurors in 2009 found Edgar Barrientos-Quintana guilty of killing 18-year-old Jesse Mickelson in a drive-by shooting. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole. But after…

WIZMnews.com WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have won enough seats to control the U.S. House, completing the party’s sweep into power and securing their hold on U.S. government alongside President-elect Donald Trump. A House Republican victory in Arizona, alongside a win in slow-counting California earlier Wednesday, gave the GOP the 218 House victories that make up…

WIZMnews.com A fun conversation with Aquinas High School football coach Tom Lee on WIZM’s La Crosse Talk, as his team gets set to play in the Division 4 state semifinals and defend its three consecutive state championships.  La Crosse Talk airs weekdays at 6-9 a.m. Listen on the WIZM app, online here, or on 92.3 FM…

WIZMnews.com As a reminder as you start or end your day today… Today is National Seat Belt Day in the United States.  As technology has advanced, we have progressed from standard lap belts to the new harnesses and airbags.  Back then, we were told and told others to buckle up but we didn’t have the…

WIZMnews.com BALTIMORE (AP) — Several U.S. Catholic bishops have encouraged the church to boldly share Vatican teachings on a range of hot-button issues, including the condemnation of abortion, euthanasia, surrogacy and gender-affirming surgery. The prelates acknowledged theirs is often a countercultural view. One bishop speaking out is Winona-Rochester Bishop Robert Barron. “We have been too…

WIZMnews.com A new ordinance against trespassing in La Crosse parking ramps may be voted on Thursday night by the city council at its November meeting. The council’s judiciary committee voted last week to restrict the kinds of activity allowed in ramps. The plan is aimed at preventing drinking, drug use, vandalism, and other activities inside…

WIZMnews.com La Crosse County Board chair Tina Tryggestad in the WIZM studio Wednesday for La Crosse Talk PM fresh off a five-hour 2025 budget meeting the night before, so of course that was a focus of the conversation that also included homelessness and renaming facilities. La Crosse Talk PM airs weekdays at 5:06 p.m. Listen…