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CHICAGO — A suburban Milwaukee city won a hard-fought battle Tuesday to draw its drinking water from Lake Michigan, a key test of a regional compact designed to safeguard the Great Lakes region's abundant but vulnerable fresh water supply.

WATERTOWN — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he agrees that delegates to the Republican national convention should be free to vote their conscience, even if that means not supporting presumptive nominee Donald Trump.

The powerful nose of police dog Frees led Madison police to a kitchen knife allegedly used by a 12-year-old boy to stab a 12-year-old boy during a fight Monday on the city's Southwest Side.

Full-time teacher salaries declined by an average of about $2,000 since Gov. Scott Walker signed Act 10, restricting collective bargaining rights for most public employees, according to a study from a conservative legal group.

The rich are getting richer in Wisconsin, and that's not good news for the rest of the state, according to a report released on Tuesday.

Wild black raspberries, a.k.a. blackcaps, are ahead of schedule phenologically if one measures a Fourth of July pie as the marker.

The Dane County narcotics task force investigating heroin dealing in the area arrested three men Monday afternoon after pulling their car over on Madison's North Side.

An Oregon man stopped for speeding and following too closely on Monday was arrested for his alleged fourth drunken driving offense.

A combination of hot weather and thunderstorms helped crops in Wisconsin last week, with growers reporting crops to be in good or excellent condition.

“The reputation on Tour is very good for Wisconsin golf." - Steve Stricker

Things have changed, both with the California brewer and in Wisconsin's market, since it pulled back in late 2010.

A driver was flown to a Milwaukee hospital Monday afternoon after crashing into a bridge pillar and suffering life-threatening injuries in Dodge County.

These bastions of exclusivity are of little use to anyone but the people who live there.

Huge racial gaps continue to exist in the data that form the backbone of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Kids Count report.

A group of high school students in Price County believed they could make a difference and could find out what the optimal habitat is and how they could help to transform their school forest into that ideal ecosystem. At least…

Stating the obvious, poison ivy grows as an herb, a vine and a shrub, and all growth forms have trifoliate (groups of three leaflets) leaves. Remember the mnemonic, leaflets three, let it be?

For the first two months of the season, Jimmy Nelson looked every bit the part of an ace-in-training for the Milwaukee Brewers.

The league accuses Johnson of "stubbornly refusing to accept the settled science regarding humans’ role in the warming of our planet."

Two juveniles were fighting when one stabbed the other in the back, resulting in non-life threatening injuries, police said.

The Welcome Home Veterans Initiative began Monday and will help homeless veterans pay for their first month's rent, security deposits and utility bills.