Prairie Du Chien News

In a presidential election year, the unemployment trend can be more important to an incumbent's chances than the unemployment rate.

In this May 7, 2004 file photo, George W. Bush speaks to supporters at a campaign rally, in Prairie Du Chien, Wi.

PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wisconsin - The Mississippi Valley Conservancy is using a grant to help improve one of their properties for public use.

Details: At approximately 7:22 p.m. on Dec. 2, 2011, 53-year-old Chris Luster of Prairie Du Chien was driving his 2001 Ford Escape north on County Highway U. He was less than a mile north of Dutch Hollow Road, in Potosi Township, when his vehicle began to slide.