A proposal to hire a city administrator for La Crosse goes before a city council committee this week. The idea for a full-time manager to work...
Mac Kiel, on La Crosse’s city council, joins WIZM’s La Crosse Talk and gives an update on the homeless situation, another update on when the Kmart...
Bring back Kmart. That was the theme Friday with UW-La Crosse political science professor, Dr. Anthony Chergosky in studio, in discussing the delay the city council...
A new housing development near the bluffs in La Crosse was supposed to be under construction or even partly open by now, at the former K-Mart...
Plans to redevelop the old Kmart site off Losey Boulevard are expected to move ahead at La Crosse city meetings this month. The ISG company is...
A city council committee approved the rezoning needed to develop the Copper Rocks complex at the former Kmart lot on La Crosse’s State Road. The project...
The Kmart building, which has stood for more than 50 years in La Crosse, will be coming down soon — replaced by housing and business outlets. ...
In his first-ever State of the City address, Mayor Mitch Reynolds realizes the struggles many are going through with the pandemic, but he sees how La...
Childcare and shelter for homeless families were the leading priorities of the La Crosse County Board at its latest discussion of how $23 million in pandemic...
People in La Crosse used to say that the local bluffs and valleys protected the city from tornadoes. That was before May 22 of 2011, when...
Ten years ago this spring in La Crosse, it was not just a test. An actual tornado touched down in the city on a Sunday afternoon…May...
It sounds like U-Haul plans to be in the old K-Mart on State Road for the long haul. Tim Acklin of the La Crosse planning department...
NASA was busy with two manned space flights in December of 1965, and you could say they sneaked a band aboard one of the capsules. ...
In the summer of 1964, an Ohio developer predicted that a new K-Mart would be open on Losey Boulevard by the following spring. Some city aldermen...
K-Mart had just opened in La Crosse, a few months before Christmas of 1965. The big box store at Losey Boulevard and State Road had ‘giftarama’ discounts,...
In 1967, K-Mart in La Crosse was selling beef, with the help of some cheesecake. A group of young ladies called the ‘Miss U-S Choice Girls’...
In 1967, folks in La Crosse were marking 125 years since Nathan Myrick’s decision to build a house here. A newspaper article reported that Myrick became...
Christmas of 1965 marked the first holiday season that K-Mart was open in La Crosse, at Losey Boulevard and State Road. The big box store had...
In 1980, the Wisconsin Transportation Commission granted the wishes of La Crosse city leaders by approving two bridges over the railroad tracks near the Amtrak depot. ...
