The 2024 Oktoberfest Torchlight Parade begins at 7 p.m. Thursday on the North Side of La Crosse. It gets rolling on Gillette street near the intersection with Kane, marches west and hangs a left ...

LA CROSSE, Wis. (WEAU) - Oktoberfest USA announced today that tickets for the 63rd Oktoberfest celebration are now on sale. The festival is September 26-29 at the Oktoberfest Grounds in La Crosse ...

LA CROSSE, Wis. (WEAU) - The first day of Oktoberfest kicked off Thursday in La Crosse with festival organizers unveiling a new statue. The statue is of “The Patron Saint of Beer”, King ...

LA CROSSE (WKBT) -- Oktoberfest lit up the night with the torch-light parade Thursday night. Dazzling floats, marching bands, and specialty units transformed the neighborhood into a spectacle of ...

Bakalars moved to La Crosse in 1990 to begin working at Bakalars Sausage Co. He met his future Frau Bethany Godwin, an Onalaska High School and UW-L graduate.

Oktoberfest nearly went broke in the late 1960s because the festival spent so much on big-name entertainment, and the La Crosse Common Council came within one vote of cancelling the event, Moore ...

LA CROSSE, Wis. (WEAU) - Throwing candy during Oktoberfest parades in La Crosse is prohibited this year. According to a press release from Oktoberfest UDA, at the recommendation of the La Crosse ...

The 30-year-old from Seymour rose to prominence on the short tracks racing for La Crosse-based car owners, and the team’s shop is only a few miles from the La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway.

LA CROSSE (WKBT) -- This year's Mrs. Oktoberfest has been announced. Saturday, Kate Dunnum was crowned as the 2024 Mrs. Oktoberfest. She is a volunteer services and auxiliary coordinator at Mayo ...

The new titleholder will be announced at the Miss La Crosse/Oktoberfest Scholarship Program at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, in The Bluffs at the UW-La Crosse Student Union.