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WIZMnews.com School pantries in the La Crosse area are getting a boost in the weeks surrounding Thanksgiving. The DBS Group joined with three districts on food collection efforts, which will take place through early December. It’s a campaign appreciated by Kate Mattison, a social worker for the La Crescent-Hokah Schools. “We were able to send…

WIZMnews.com It took close to five hours Tuesday but La Crosse County supervisors worked out a budget for 2025. The levy is about $38 million and spending for next year is slightly above $200 million. Board members proposed many changes during the meeting. One idea approved was to designate $250,000 in spending for the La…

WIZMnews.com Before the election, I made a joke that the cable networks were so obsessed with counting down to the big day that, after the election, they would start counting how many days since we had voted. I haven’t seen that yet, but I did see one cable anchor eager to tell us that it’s…

WIZMnews.com Logan High School football coach Casey Knoble joins WIZM’s La Crosse Talk, discussing his team being in the Division 3 state semifinals, playing to get to Camp Randall and just coaching life with three young kids at home. La Crosse Talk airs weekdays at 6-9 a.m. Listen on the WIZM app, online here, or on…

WIZMnews.com School pantries in the La Crosse area are getting a boost in the weeks surrounding Thanksgiving. The DBS Group joined with three districts on food collection efforts, which will take place through early December. It’s a campaign appreciated by Kate Mattison, a social worker for the La Crescent-Hokah Schools. “We were able to send…

WIZMnews.com It took close to five hours Tuesday but La Crosse County supervisors worked out a budget for 2025. The levy is about $38 million and spending for next year is slightly above $200 million. Board members proposed many changes during the meeting. One idea approved was to designate $250,000 in spending for the La…

WIZMnews.com Before the election, I made a joke that the cable networks were so obsessed with counting down to the big day that, after the election, they would start counting how many days since we had voted. I haven’t seen that yet, but I did see one cable anchor eager to tell us that it’s…

WIZMnews.com A trip to Camp Randall Stadium on the line Friday when the Logan High School football team plays in its first Division 3 semifinal since 2013. The Rangers (10-2) will take on Notre Dame Academy (12-0) at Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln High School in a game that will be streamed live on WKTY.  HOW TO…

WIZMnews.com WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump stunned the Pentagon and the broader defense world by nominating Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as his defense secretary, tapping someone largely inexperienced and untested on the global stage to take over the world’s largest and most powerful military. The Defense Department has a budget exceeding…

WIZMnews.com MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans reelected Robin Vos as the speaker of the state Assembly on Tuesday, a position he has held longer than anyone in state history and that he reclaimed despite a challenge from a more conservative lawmaker and Democratic gains in the election. The speaker is the most powerful position…