On April 8th and 9th of 1973, La Crosse saw one of its biggest snowstorms on record to that time. The 16-inch total easily beat the...
In April of 1990, former Central High principal Robert Bulthaus pled guilty to misdemeanors, resulting from charges that he misused student activity funds during two...
Fifty years ago, April 4th of 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed while standing on a balcony at a motel in Memphis. The...
At the WIAA boys state basketball tournament in March of 1979, there were three divisions. And in each class, a La Crosse area team made it...
In April of 1958, the city of La Crosse was suggesting one-way streets through downtown as a form of traffic control. The change would affect...
In the 2012 election, Republicans running to defeat President Obama largely passed over La Crosse County before the Wisconsin primary. One GOP candidate did get...
In 2001, Michael Vernio agreed to be transported from Rochester, Minnesota to Trempeleau County, to face charges in a 1997 murder. Vernio was considered a suspect...
In 1975, UW-La Crosse worked out a deal with the Holiday Inn on the pike to send students there in the fall, to ease crowding in...
An early April primary in 1988 brought several presidential hopefuls to La Crosse in the two weeks before the voting. Senator Al Gore held a rally...
In March of 1968, weather experts said no flooding was likely along the Upper Mississippi that spring. Just a year earlier, the river had reached almost...
In March of 1964, WKTY Radio was broadcasting the WIAA state basketball tournament, as well as important regional, sub-sectional, and sectional games. The playoffs were “presented”...
People in La Crosse were nervous in late May of 1984, when pipe bombs were being found throughout the city. At least six of the devices...
A new team competition started up in La Crosse in 1991, a Corporate Spelling Bee. A local literacy council recruited three-person teams from companies throughout the...
In the summer of 1992, a park near the Omni Center in Onalaska was named after former Mayor Shirleigh Van Riper. But objecting to the decision...
Seventy-seven years ago, in 1941, La Crosse police chief Herman Rick and traffic sergeant Lyle Gilbert said traffic lights would stay on 45 seconds before changing. ...
In early 1982, the La Crosse School District was considering more school closings because of declining enrollment. Two elementary schools on the north side, Roosevelt and...
During the race for mayor of La Crosse in 1939, candidate Donald Lyden used the word “amuck” to describe the city’s taxing practices. He was one...
In March of 1991, the La Crosse County courthouse and jail was getting crowded. The building had been open only 26 years. It replaced a 60-year-old...
In early 1974, folks in Cashton were complaining that their town wasn’t posted on signs near I-90 exits, so drivers trying to get to Cashton didn’t...
La Crosse’s third commercial TV station, WLAX-TV, signed on the air in late 1986, on Channel 25. It’s now better known as Fox-25, but the Fox...