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WIZMnews.com Vicki Markussen is back in the running for La Crosse Mayor, after nearly winning the race back in 2021. Markussen spoke to reporters Friday at City Hall, as she filed nomination papers for the election that will now have Feb. 20 primary. Markussen is the third official candidate, following Shaundel Spivey and Ellie McLoone.…

WIZMnews.com Before Valley View Mall opened in 1980, shopping in La Crosse happened downtown, mostly between 4th and 6th Streets. The big local name was Doerflinger’s at 4th and Main. At the opposite end of the same block, you could find Herberger’s on 5th, and not too far from there were Sears and JCPenney. For…

WIZMnews.com The La Crosse city council is being asked to choose between two competing plans for the former fire station on Monitor Street. On Thursday, the council Finance and Personnel Committee voted 3-1 against a purchase offer of $325,000 for the building from Karl Schilling, representing a company called Property Logic. A second offer of…

WIZMnews.com A 40-year-old woman, accused of vehicular homicide for a pedestrian death in Onalaska, could be scheduled for trial soon. Megan Urch of Onalaska had a court hearing on Thursday, where La Crosse County Judge Ramona Gonzalez found probable cause to hold a trial. Onalaska police detective Chad Marcon testified in court Thursday that video…

WIZMnews.com A Dane County judge just turned Act 10 into legal origami, folding established law into something completely unrecognizable. This isn’t judicial review, it’s judicial rewriting. Act 10 was our fiscal firewall, saving taxpayers billions, by simply requiring public employees to pay their fair share for their health care and their pensions. The law also…

WIZMnews.com Before Valley View Mall opened in 1980, shopping in La Crosse happened downtown, mostly between 4th and 6th Streets. The big local name was Doerflinger’s at 4th and Main. At the opposite end of the same block, you could find Herberger’s on 5th, and not too far from there were Sears and JCPenney. For…

WIZMnews.com The La Crosse city council is being asked to choose between two competing plans for the former fire station on Monitor Street. On Thursday, the council Finance and Personnel Committee voted 3-1 against a purchase offer of $325,000 for the building from Karl Schilling, representing a company called Property Logic. A second offer of…

WIZMnews.com A 40-year-old woman, accused of vehicular homicide for a pedestrian death in Onalaska, could be scheduled for trial soon. Megan Urch of Onalaska had a court hearing on Thursday, where La Crosse County Judge Ramona Gonzalez found probable cause to hold a trial. Onalaska police detective Chad Marcon testified in court Thursday that video…

WIZMnews.com A Holmen woman is sentenced to a total of 20 years of prison and extended supervision, for reckless homicide in the drug death of a male friend. Twenty-seven-year-old Rachel Brockway pled guilty last June to providing a mix of heroin and fentanyl to Christian Lunde, who died in February of 2023 after taking drugs…

WIZMnews.com Chi-Chi’s is making a comeback. The Mexican chain said this week that it plans to open some new restaurants next year. The locations would be the first since Chi-Chi’s filed for bankruptcy protection in 2003. Michael McDermott, the son of Chi-Chi’s founder, said he struck an agreement with Hormel Foods to open the restaurants.…