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GREEN LAKE – Looking back on a litany of grant announcements by the U.S. Department of Agriculture over the past six months or so, I reached this conclusion: Wisconsin leaves a lot of federal …

I’m writing to thank and commend all of those who are continuing to work on the North Mendota Parkway.

The Wisconsin Well Woman Program is a critical safety net for low income and uninsured women. Funding from the Centers for Disease Control and the governor’s state budget is level, so there is…

In her column last Sunday, “Watch out for woman trap in 2016,” Kathleen Parker manages to check many misogynistic boxes.

Thank you so much for Wednesday's Earth Day editorial, "GOP shouldn’t ignore climate concerns."

Thank you so much for the interesting story on the front page of Friday's paper "Old stave church may move again," about possibly moving the historic structure back to Norway.

I read Wednesday's fine State Journal editorial, "GOP shouldn't ignore climate concerns," on the same day I received yet another letter from U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, dismissing such concerns.

I strong disagree with last Sunday’s letter “Black people are not persecuted in Madison.”

Thank you, Gov. Scott Walker, for even considering whether massive legal immigration is an unqualified benefit to this country. If only other presidential candidates or potential candidates wo…

While it’s comforting to learn Gov. Scott Walker’s political committee has agreed to pay for his extensive travels recently, it is still galling that the taxpayers of Wisconsin are stuck with …

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man climbing Mount Everest has survived a powerful earthquake that shook Nepal on Saturday.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin egg company executive says a Lake Mills facility will become productive again after they euthanize all 800,000 chickens due to a highly contagious avian influe…

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is doing well in polls nationally as he prepares for a run for president. In Wisconsin, his popularity is almost at an all-time low, and people of all political per…

Campus Kitchens-UW-Madison is the 45th chapter of the national Campus Kitchens Project organization.

If lawmakers really want to put the responsibility where it belongs, they’d task the guilty driver with removing the deer or dragging it from view.

MADISON / McFARLAND - Irmgard M. Krebs, age 87, of McFarland, passed away on Tuesday, April 21, 2015, at Harmony Living Center. She was born on Oct. 2, 1927, in Dorsten, Germany, the daughter …

SUN PRAIRIE - Carol J. Grenier, age 82, passed away on Sunday, April 19, 2015, at the Flagstaff Medical Center, Flagstaff, Ariz., as the result of injuries sustained in a motor vehicle acciden…

WAUNAKEE - Virginia "Ginny" Diane (Ikeman) Sabin, age 65, of Waunakee, passed away on April 23, 2015, at her home. She was born on Aug. 21, 1949, in Beloit, the daughter of Frank and Margaret Ikeman.

PLATTEVILLE - Alan L. Propst, of Platteville, Wis., passed away on Saturday, April 11, 2015, at home surrounded by family. Al was born in Decatur, Ill., on Oct. 1, 1949, the son of Carl and Mi…

APPLETON - The final verse to the living poem we all knew as Ellen Kort was written when she passed on Tuesday, April 21, 2015, at the age of 79. Ellen was an author, poet, teacher, speaker, a…