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WIZMnews.com A national restaurant chain planning a new location at Valley View Mall has started advertising for workers, but it’s not known yet when the restaurant will be built. Raising Cane’s is taking applications on its website for a restaurant leader and assistant leader, for a location planned at the former Macy’s property along Highway…

WIZMnews.com While the top of the ticket campaigned in Wisconsin for both parties on Wednesday, more politicians are touring the battleground state, including Thursday and Friday on WIZM’s La Crosse Talk PM. Donald Trump campaigned Wednesday in Green Bay with retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre. The former Packer is now shadowed by a welfare spending…

WIZMnews.com A giant thanks from one organization to another in the La Crosse community. Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) Hospitals helps provide funding for families in need that can’t make ends meet when their kids are battling a disease or illness. Each year, Mid-West Family La Crosse teams up with CMN for a 24-hour Radiothon, asking…

WIZMnews.com Besides the costume choices each year, what has really changed when we celebrate Halloween?  Remember when it was against the rules to have Halloween on any other night but the 31st?  And you really weren’t supposed to start until after it was dark?  And was the cutoff time determined when candy was gone or…

WIZMnews.com MADISON — While Donald Trump was campaigning with Packers legend Brett Favre in Green Bay, Kamala Harris was a few hours south, rallying in Madison with the Wisconsin Badgers volleyball team. As Harris entered the Alliant Energy Center, she was greeted by the Badgers and Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers. As Harris hugged each player,…

WIZMnews.com GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — While Kamala Harris held a rally in Madison and met the Wisconsin volleyball team, Donald Trump was just north in Wisconsin, campaigning in Green Bay with Packers legend Brett Favre. Trump showered Favre with praise Wednesday. “Thank you, Brett. What a great honor. What a great champion,” Trump said…

WIZMnews.com A busy downtown intersection in La Crosse now features a new attraction for art lovers. It’s a sculpture called “Incendiary,” by local artist Luke Achterberg. The sculptor and some city employees put the abstract artwork in place at 7th and Main on Wednesday morning, in Burns Park. Achterberg says the sculpture is based on…

WIZMnews.com La Crosse’s public schools are still waiting for an exemption from the state Legislature to change the school calendar, so class would start in mid-August instead of September. The La Crosse School Board approved a plan last week to begin the fall semester Aug. 21, but the state doesn’t let public schools open until…

WIZMnews.com It was a Mack and Mac Monday morning on La Crosse Talk with city council members Mac Kiel and Mackenzie Mindel in studio, discussing city administrator, homelessness and a new parking ramp ordinance proposal. La Crosse Talk airs weekdays at 6-9 a.m. Listen on the WIZM app, online here, or on 92.3 FM / 1410…

WIZMnews.com PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis. — A 39-year-old Lancaster, Wis., man jailed in Prairie du Chien is suspected of reckless homicide in another man’s stabbing death. Jessie Slaughter is in jail, following an initial court appearance Monday in Crawford County Court. Prairie du Chien Police said 65-year-old Daniel Welsch was found dead inside a house…