West Salem News

Gov. Jim Doyle will meet with governors and international leaders in mid-December at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Dec. 3, 2009 11:01 a.m. A utility customer group is supporting changes to the state's ban on nuclear power plants, but not an outright repeal of the moratorium.

ROCHESTER -- JoAnn L. Quinn, 74, of West Salem, Wis., passed away Monday, Nov. 30, 2009, at Franciscan Skemp Medical Center, La Crosse, after a two-year battle with cancer.

A new report says nuclear power plants would take too long to build and are too expensive to make any impact on global warming.

Police are looking for burglars who hit several businesses this week. Onalaska police say burglars broke into four businesses, and tried to break into two more in the past few days.

West Salem, WI He is a dentist at Waterloo Heights in West Salem and now he's running for Senate in Nevada.

12 establishments failed, resulting in an 84% success rate of businesses with liquor licenses denying the sale of alcohol to minors.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:50 a.m. Vote 0 Votes The Assembly saw heated debate Tuesday over a bill that would prohibit certain criminals from associating with child care providers.

ASALMS/Oktoberfest 2009 WEST SALEM, WI -- On a chilly Western Wisconsin Saturday night, the stars of 'America's Premier Short Track Series' saved some of their best for last, contesting a thrilling curtain closer for the 2009 ASA Late Model Series North Division season.

The Lakeshore area has been a longtime friend of the nuclear power industry. We are home to the nuclear plants at Point Beach in the town of Two Creeks and a few miles away near Kewaunee.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 1:39 a.m. Vote 0 Votes Three Republican legislators proposed ideas for new legislation Monday to repeal the state's ban on construction of new nuclear power plants.

Investigators are trying to identify a man who showed his face while apparently trying to get rid of a surveillance camera near a marijuana grow.

Sept. 2, 2009 6:23 a.m. After a land owner near West Salem found marijuana plants growing on his property, police put a surveillance camera in a nearby tree to see who was tending the plants, according to this story in the La Crosse Tribune .

WEST SALEM, Wis. -- James Robert "Talking Buffalo" LaJeunesse, 58, of West Salem, Wis., died unexpectedly Tuesday, Aug.

WEST SALEM, Wis. -- James Robert "Talking Buffalo" LaJeunesse, 58, of West Salem, Wis., died unexpectedly Tuesday, Aug.

A Western Wisconsin man was killed in a car crash on Tuesday. The State Patrol says the deadly crash happened around 5:30pm on I-90 near Sparta in Monroe County.

One in five state Assembly aides earn higher salaries than their positions should pay under a practice that costs taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, an Associated Press review found.

A long weekend visiting friends in the West Salem/ La Crosse area offered a combination of spiritual humor, prayer and reflection.

Current and former Department of Natural Resources employees told lawmakers on Tuesday that morale has plummeted and the department has become more political since 1995, when the governor assumed authority to appoint the secretary.

A total of $760 million is now available for direct loans to farmers, announced Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack in West Salem, WI, last week.