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Amid a constant parade of new beers, don't overlook the classics like this schwarzbier that turns 30 this year.

The versatile vegetable has a unique growing method that was discovered by accident. 

Every now and then one of my columns simply becomes a medley of recipes waiting to be shared by me. The dictionary would casually refer to it as “hodge-podge” and that’s exactly what today’s c…

Madison’s ride-sharing rules are too late and strict.

In 1876, Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Edward G. Ryan wrote that anything that interfered with women's “sacred duties” were “departures from the order of nature [and] treason against it.”

Bonnie Block recently served a five-day jail sentence in Juneau County after being arrested at a peace protest last year.

This week's recipe took honorable mention in the State Journal's casseroles category in 1979 and was submitted by Lorraine Parks of Marshall.

In news only slightly more surprising than this morning’s sunrise, Hillary Rodham Clinton announced she is running for president again.

The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey program will have a variety of representatives involved in the Stanley Cup playoffs that begin today.

The mayor of Lisle, Illinois has declared April 16 "Frank Kaminsky Day."

BASEBALL

He stands 6-foot-5 and weighs over 200 pounds, with a 38-inch vertical leap that allows him to play above the rim and a wingspan that measures nearly seven feet.

A good start continued into the second game of a doubleheader, but a six-run sixth inning derailed the University of Wisconsin softball team’s chance at a sweep of UW-Green Bay on Tuesday at G…

Rock Cates hit two home runs and drove in four runs Tuesday evening to lead the Madison West baseball team to a 17-7 victory over Madison La Follette in a Big Eight Conference game at Warner Park.

Uri Fried, 58, was charged Monday with filing a false tax return in 2009. Under a plea agreement, Fried is scheduled to plead guilty to that charge on May 22.

The Dane County Zoning and Land Committee's unanimous decision follows a consultant's recommendation that the county require Enbridge Energy to carry $25 million in pollution insurance in orde…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A defense attorney has told jurors that ALS affected the brain of a former Dane County sheriff's deputy on trial for the killings of his wife and sister-in-law.

Paul Ginsberg spent four decades on the UW-Madison campus, including 18 years as the dean of students.

Geese mate for life. They do so in the second year of their lives.

Officials are looking for a Plan B to euthanize 180,000 chickens at infected egg-laying facility after nations halt imports of poultry from all state businesses.