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CROSS PLAINS - Amelia "Milly" (Acker) Kelter, age 78, passed away on Tuesday, June 9, 2015, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg. She was born on Sept. 17, 1936, the daughter of John and Rose (W…

The study is by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City.

Ward, a former UW assistant coach, replaces Luke Strand, who left last week to become an assistant with the Badgers.

A trial in federal court for Joshua Van Haften, a former Madison man accused of trying to join the Islamic State terror group, is set to begin in December, although lawyers on both sides of th…

Teachers who receive alternative licenses or permits through the new pathways could not be full-time employees and would be restricted to the school they are hired in under language lawmakers …

The final five control zones set up by state agriculture officials to keep avian influenza in check in Wisconsin have ended.

The state tournament is set for Thursday through Saturday at Goodman Diamond in Madison. 

Walker wrote changes made to Wisconsin's K-12 landscape under his governorship are types of "reforms" that could be pushed across the country.

What percentage of the households earning $100,000 or more during the year reported that they saved nothing?

Will they all just get on with it? The prosecutors, the judge, the defense lawyers — do they not understand that this is the 21st century and we all want our explanations right now?

Now that six of the world’s largest oil companies have essentially come out in favor of a carbon tax, it’s getting harder to dismiss the idea as some kind of outlandish lefty plot. And those c…

Each week, we’re pulling a classic recipe out of the State Journal archives and sharing it here as it was originally printed years ago. Remember, ingredients and cooking techniques change over…

A few months ago, a package arrived containing a new cookbook from New Glarus resident Doris Streiff. “Down on the Farm Cooking III” happens to be her third book, this time connecting the long…

Republican lawmakers want the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents to change tenure rules so it is easier to fire faculty. 

State lawmakers should keep their hands off the nonpartisan and trusted watchdog that flags government waste and mismanagement

Almost exactly two months after Hillary Rodham Clinton’s official announcement that she’s running for president, she will give her first “official campaign announcement speech,” on June 13, ac…

Meriter, St. Mary’s and UW hospitals are planning a joint program to give dental care to patients who require full sedation, which would replace the service after Meriter’s Max W. Pohle Dental…

One couple spent the night chest-deep in muddy floodwaters in their living room, dodging floating furniture.

Card, who owns UW records in the discus and shot put, bids for national titles at the meet, which begins Wednesday in Eugene, Ore.

Scott Tyler and the Madison Mallards weathered a rough start Tuesday night, then used a three-run eighth inning to rally past the Green Bay Bullfrogs 5-3 in a Northwoods League amateur basebal…