La Crosse Riverfest fireworks are postponed until 9:40 p.m. Friday. The plan is still to fire them off from Pettibone Park. Lightning caused the postponement but...
No seasons off for La Crosse Oktoberfest royalty. The Oktoberfest royal family will be part of La Crosse’s Riverfest in three weeks, while the Commodore banquet...
The 40th annual Riverfest has begun a five-day run on La Crosse’s riverfront. This year’s Commodore Jake Erickson and First Mate Jessie led past Riverfest royalty...
Get ready for “Cheers and Beers” — a new event for 4th of July in La Crosse. The La Crosse Center will open its newly-added ballroom...
Proceeds of the 60s rock tribute band's concert will support five areas of need through the La Crosse Community Foundation.
The first full year under the COVID-19 pandemic is ending in the Coulee Region, and the illness remained a cause of concern throughout 2021. At the...
During La Crosse’s Riverfest in 2010, a Missouri company called Swifty’s Swine featured hogs racing around a track. Race watchers could cheer for their favorite animals, with names...
The next election in Wisconsin for U.S. Senate is still more than a year away, but one politically active group in the state is taking a...
Tomah teacher, Aaron Scott, was on the most recent season of NBC’s The Voice and you can catch him at La Crosse’s Riverfest tomorrow, June 30,...
There may not be a beer tent, but there will be beer. And food. And attractions, as Riverfest makes it back to Riverside Park this week....
Two weeks and counting until Riverfest in La Crosse. Several past Commodores and First Mates gathered at Riverside Park on Wednesday to promote the first Riverfest...
In 1994, La Crosse’s Oktoberfest chose a button design featuring a wizard and a crystal ball, emphasizing the “magic” of the 34-year-old festival. But one person...
Hundreds of spectators lined up in downtown La Crosse on Saturday to see the city’s first holiday parade in over a year, with sunshine and 50-degree...
The people who put on Riverfest in La Crosse are hoping COVID vaccines and safety precautions will let them have a festival as usual this July,...
On July 2nd of 2015, President Barack Obama spoke at UW-La Crosse, in the Recreational Eagle Center. It was Obama’s only visit to the city during...
The first four days of July in 1983 were set aside for a holiday festival in Riverside Park, called Riverfest. Organizers were hoping it would become...
The Riverfest La Crosse Board of Directors announced Thursday the 2020 event scheduled from July 1-4 is canceled. “Our Board looked at many different scenarios and...
In July of 1988, Governor Tommy Thompson scheduled a week of state government events in the western part of Wisconsin. Thompson had a question and answer...
The cancellation of the spring sports season for Wisconsin high schools means there will be no state track meet at UW-L this year. That amounts to...
Can you hear it? Riverfest is officially underway in La Crosse. Volunteers worked through days of rain to put the festival together. They used pumps to...
