Wisconsin State Journal Local News

Mayor Soglin is right that feel-good legal protection for drifters isn’t the answer to health and safety concerns Downtown

Rick Berg remembers. A conservative member of The Madison School Board from 1983 to 1989, Berg was one of three members who opposed busing low-income children of color out of their neighborhoo…

Announcing his presidential candidacy in Miami on Monday, Jeb Bush staked out the pro-immigration end of Republican politics. He spoke pointedly in Spanish and responded to pro-immigration pro…

CHICAGO — American police live in a place even more wondrous than the one you know from “A Prairie Home Companion.” In Lake Wobegon, all the children are above average. In Police Land, every c…

Today, natural resource departments nationwide are faced with the huge challenge of maintaining quality bluegill fisheries. Northern states have it tougher because of shorter growing seasons.

As opinion polls keep finding higher popular support for same-sex marriage, Republican strategists have come to dread the issue. A lot of them want it to simply go away — and they think the Su…

Life has taught Wai Se that the pursuit of happiness is more important than the pursuit of money.

Coming in Wisconsin this week:

Tips for your flowers, trees and shrubs.

Longtime journalist Alan Guebert has been writing about agriculture in his syndicated column, “The Farm and Food File,” for decades. It requires a lot of “heavy lifting each and every week,” h…

This State Journal editorial ran on June 18, 1915:

Parked along the third-base side of Warner Park, the Double Decker Pizza Bus sometimes leads to puzzled expressions on the faces of fans entering the ballpark to watch the Madison Mallards.

Collin Theroux’s final at-bat on Saturday night didn’t exactly start the way the Madison Mallards hoped.

WISCONSIN DELLS — Madison Memorial product Shareef Smith totaled 14 points, six rebounds and four assists Saturday, but his Division 1 North team suffered a 93-88 loss to the South in the Wisc…

MILWAUKEE — Senior forward Jordyn Ostrowski scored on a breakaway in the fourth minute of the second overtime Saturday to give the Schofield D.C. Everest girls soccer team its first state cham…

Gary H. Pertzborn, 52, was found dead Thursday in a silo on his property on Highway JG.

Watching shortstop Alcides Escobar and center fielder Lorenzo Cain play for the Kansas City Royals in the World Series last fall was painful enough for Milwaukee Brewers fans.

Adversity, be it slavery or last week's shootings at a black church in Charleston, "is not new to our community."

Capital at the right time is essential to Wisconsin startup companies in their prospects to become large, high-paying employers. 

Adam Lind's home run accounts for Milwaukee's only run.