Difficult decisions ahead for the city of La Crosse, as it goes through a 2024 budget process. Police and fire are seeing cuts in hiring and...
For 30 years, they’ve been volunteering to clean up the wetlands across the Coulee Region, and they’re back again Friday and Saturday, looking for help to...
It started 29 years ago with Russell Wilson’s effort to rally the community to help clean up La Crosse area waterways. The aptly named “River Cleanup...
A La Crosse city committee has approved a zoning change which would allow a local recycling business to expand in the north-side industrial park. The project...
Oktoberfest in La Crosse may be four days, but for one group in the city, cleanup started early. While Sunday, Oct. 3, was the official final...
You never know what will end up going down the toilet. La Crosse wastewater superintendent Jared Greeno tells the city board of public works that his...
There aren’t many power plants in this part of the country that burn garbage to generate electricity. The Xcel incinerator on French Island is rare in...
While lawmakers in the New York have come to an agreement to ban the use of plastic bags in the state, Tennessee is doing the exact...
In the fall of 1989, Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson announced he would decide by year’s end whether to run for a second term. Thompson was 47,...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — America’s recycling industry is in the dumps. A crash in the global market for recyclables is forcing communities to make hard choices...
Cutting costs of cleaning up the annual purge of furniture left on La Crosse’s boulevards could be as simple as finding other homes for it all....
The month long, large item garbage pickup in La Crosse may be coming to a close. This was the third year the city offered four weeks...
A decision today by a city committee could mean significant changes to La Crosse’s recycling program. The city’s Board of Public Works will determine this morning...
The large item disposal period in La Crosse is drawing to a close. The final count isn’t in, but typically it’s hundreds of mattresses along with...
It’s been a banner year for mattresses dumped on the curb in La Crosse. And that’s actually not a bad thing this time of year. 7...
The big college moveout is underway in La Crosse. Fortunately, large item pickup also begins. The correlation isn’t an accident, as college students generally leave behind...
Did you get a 2-percent raise this year? Your garbage collector might have. Harter’s Quick Clean Up will get a 2.1-percent boost in pay for picking...
A garbage contractor gets a bump in pay for handling stuff dumped on the curb during the big college move out in La Crosse. The city’s...
Industry has made 9.1 billion tons of plastic since 1950.
Still a mess left behind by college students moving out in La Crosse in the last few weeks. But not nearly as bad as it...
