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In honor of the birth of Abraham Lincoln 206 years ago, Madison writer Paul Buhle presents his book “Lincoln for Beginners” in an event on Thursday.

Sales of new pianos nationally exceeded 230,000 in 1972 but have fallen steadily over the past 30 years to just 41,000 in 2012, according to a report in Music Trades.

Animal rights groups plan to oppose the bill that is expected to include a reporting provision that they say will stifle undercover investigations of farms that abuse animals.

Stewardship land buys would be crushed as highway borrowing rises, but Assembly Republicans may salvage part of the program.

High rates of students exempted from vaccination at some local schools have health officials concerned about the possibility of outbreaks in Dane County.

First the governor proposed a $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System.

A plaque in a children's park prompts a search for the man who designed it.

I don’t know how much more flippant politicking I can take from Wisconsin's governor/presidential candidate -- nor how much more righteous indignation I can take from the officials of multimil…

February is not roses and songbirds, but it’s the beginning of all things spring. Finding a few of these wonders of nature is a better tonic than anything that comes in a bottle.

Andy Rubin, a master printer at Tandem Press in Madison, is exhibiting paintings at Gallery Marzen in a show titled “The Weight of Weather.”

This State Journal editorial ran on Feb. 9, 1940:

Coming in Wisconsin this week:

I was a terrific parent before I had children. I had all the answers. My children would not have temper tantrums in the grocery store. My children would follow all the rules. In truth, being a…

Tips for your flowers, trees and shrubs.

We are one year away from the Iowa caucuses and already several Republican presidential candidates are trying to secure an advantage by talking about their faith.

Yet history might be on the governor's side in the race for president

BARABOO — At last, someone has come up with the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for the single, lonely and disgruntled: It’s the gift of spite.

WASHINGTON — Flashback: Galileo is under house arrest pondering the unyielding ignorance of The Church for refusing to consider his heliocentric proposition that the Earth circled the sun.

Gov. Scott Walker is proposing budget cuts that could affect Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television and instructional programming offered by the Educational Communications Board.