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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.…

WIZMnews.com A lot covered on Thursday’s La Crosse Talk PM with Adam Hoffer, including how much taxpayers would be on the hook if the Badgers fired their football coach, how much Wisconsin loses by not legalizing vices like sports betting and weed, plus Chi Chi’s is coming back and Kmart is almost gone. La Crosse…

WIZMnews.com Bill Soper, the president of the La Crosse Area YMCAs, joins to reminisce a bit about doing segments for 30 years with Mike Hayes, who passed away last week. We also got a bit of an update on a future YMCA in Holmen, plus how the La Crosse YMCAs have evolved to more than…

WIZMnews.com It’s nearly complete, the end of the “Blue Light Special,” could be coming to a close nearly 65 years after it began. The last full-size Kmart in the continental U.S., located in Bridgehampton, New York, closed in October, while a fraction of a store in Miami remains. There, are four others out there —…

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.…

WIZMnews.com It seems that each year when we approach the holiday shopping season, there are more choices than the year before.  You have stores that have online websites.  You have online websites that you can ship your purchase to the actual store.  You have the big box retailers and then you have my favorite choice,…

WIZMnews.com Sarah Butler from Around River City drops in the WIZM studio Thursday to chat with La Crosse Talk host Ken Cooper about what’s happening this weekend, plus a little fun with the most mispronounced words of 2024, and special holiday cocktails from local establishments. La Crosse Talk airs weekdays at 6-8 a.m. Listen on…

WIZMnews.com You could call it an early Christmas gift to La Crosse elementary schools. Literary grants from the La Crosse Public Education Foundation are providing new books to local public school classes from kindergarten to 5th grade. School superintendent Aaron Engel stopped by Northside Elementary on Wednesday, as kids there were starting to check out…