Viroqua News

Premier Meats is scheduled to open in Vernon County this fall. The startup project will offer meat processing services to farmers, as well as locally grown organic and non-organic meats for retail sale.

John Hoffland, who was news director at WEAU-TV in Eau Claire for 25 years, has died.

Beverly 'Bev' Ann Solberg Wagner, 73, passed from this life to the next, Sunday, Feb.

Oh no, they don't really raise tobacco in Wisconsin? Do they? That's the common response when the subject of tobacco growing in the dairy state comes up in conversation, something that only happens when folks like this writer brings up the subject -- which is seldom.

If Ben Logan had given us only his classic account of growing up on a farm in Coulee Country, we would have been richly blessed.

Two teens were thrown from their vehicle after hitting a utility pole and breaking it in half.

A 21-year-old Viroqua woman has been charged with dealing morphine, the Vernon County Sheriff's Department said Thursday.

Barb Bundy-Jost, director of the Rahr-West Museum, poses with Ron Brenwall of Kiel, "Thunderbird" wood artwork that will be on display in the 2009 Wisconsin Artists Biennial exhibit, May 17-July 12 at the museum in Manitowoc.

One state agency is working with national service organization Americorps to help communities bring local foods to Wisconsin schools.

A sheriff says deputies arrested four suspects in at least three burglaries in the area.

A company that makes components for diesel engines is laying off dozens of employees in western Wisconsin.

Nearly 50 La Crosse area employees are out of a Job. Cummins Filtration in Viroqua laid off 48 employees Monday.

Alan Ross, 70, of Manitowoc, has toured four maritime museums in North America. But the Wisconsin Maritime Museum tour guide, otherwise known as a "docent," feels right at home with the Manitowoc exhibits.

A western Wisconsin taxi and on-demand transportation company will take over two specialty services operated by Valley Transit.

Over the past couple of years, flooding has damaged 21 of Vernon County's 22 dams.

Conservation wardens continue to investigate after a bald eagle was found dead in Vernon County with its talons missing.

Fox Valley Transit says Kobussen buses will no longer be it's paratransit provider.

The company says the 65,000 rides it gives to seniors and the handicapped throughout Outagamie County may now be provided through a non-local bus service.

"The floods that overwhelmed southern Wisconsin last summer deposited 9 inches of water in the nondescript warehouse in Viola where Allegra Wakest and Eddy Nix built an online-only business selling used books." ...

The floods that overwhelmed southern Wisconsin last summer deposited nine inches of water in the nondescript warehouse in Viola where Allegra Wakest and Eddy Nix built an online-only business selling used ...