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Thanksgiving week is here and with it comes our annual Econ Quiz celebrating Wisconsin’s harvest. Though farming in Wisconsin is sometimes synonymous with dairy, it’s the fruits of our fields that turn a turkey dinner into a Thanksgiving Day feast.

In blocking Texas from using its new congressional maps, a federal judicial panel painstakingly discredited Republican arguments that race wasn’t the primary driver of the 2025 redistricting.

The recall applies to Woodman’s stores in Wisconsin and Illinois.

This fall, UW-Madison’s Law School laid off the director of its program that trains students to be public defenders.

Love's injury is to his non-throwing shoulder, and it's been bothering him some. But he hopes to keep playing at a high level.

Tricia Ploessl, 45, died Friday after another driver accelerated quickly in the parking lot and struck her as she was getting into her own vehicle.

It’s been nearly a decade since Eve Galanter, a retired teacher and reporter in Madison, read the news story that led her to start a statewide competition to get high schoolers excited about government.

The annual quiz game about government and democracy has doubled in size since the Wisconsin Newspaper Association started it. The brainchild of a retired teacher-turned-reporter, it encourages young people to become civically engaged.

The former governor contends he “was right to kill this idea years ago.”

ERIE, Colo. — “Gus” the turkey spent Thanksgiving week much differently than millions of other unlucky gobblers across the U.S.

Liberal justices Susan Crawford and Janet Protasiewicz rejected motions for their recusal filed earlier this year by Wisconsin’s six Republican members of Congress.

Wisconsin authorities now have 30 days to pick up Morgan Geyser.

The Beloit Police & Fire Commission will discuss the next steps in the fire chief hiring process during its December meeting.

The crash happened about 11:20 a.m. on Nov. 17 as two vehicles were racing east on the Beltline and one crashed into an unrelated vehicle, pushing it into a semi-truck.

The state also recorded its first hunting-related fatality in three years for opening weekend.

A Board of Regents member praised UW-Madison leadership for following up on its commitment to invest more in NIL for Badgers athletes.

Southern Wisconsin will see light snow at most from the pre-Thanksgiving storm, but another storm system could bring accumulating snow over the weekend, depending on the track it takes.

The Menomonee Falls-based retailer posted fiscal third-quarter earnings of $8 million, or 7 cents per share, on revenue of $3.58 billion.