Wisconsin State Journal Local News

So Gov. Scott Walker was recently caught lying about changing the mission statement of the University of Wisconsin System.

As the fall election approaches, we all owe it to ourselves to use our imagination to picture the state and the country as it could be. Imagine excellent schools. Imagine no child living in poverty. Imagine affordable higher education. Imagine…

The Republican attack on UW has led to professors leaving the university in droves. UW-Madison professors bring in around $1 billion in research grants each year. That's more than twice as much money as the university gets from the state.

As a disabled Vietnam-era veteran, I took offense to Phil Hands' cartoon in the Sunday's State Journal, saying some veterans "died in line at the VA."

Reading the subtitle of James Campbell's latest book, you stop to fret. Is this about Campbell again challenging Alaska’s wilderness, or about testing paternal bonds with his teenage daughter?After all, if we took such journeys, our book would likely be…

Aaron Meier, 14, chose to hunt during the two latest hunting periods, E and F. There are fewer birds because some have already been taken. Often gobblers are less responsive to hunting tactics in late May, too.

It aims to pick up where Lucky's left off, with the same casual, neighborhood sports-bar feel, but with more Wisconsin flavor.

In Wisconsin and across the nation, the crisis of college affordability and student loan debt demands solutions. Turning students into modern-day indentured servants is not among them.

Paulsen, who is from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, played at UW from 1999-2003.

I can't blame the mom whose child fell into the gorilla exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo. Harambe, the 450-pound endangered gorilla, had to be shot and killed after roughly dragging the child through the enclosure. As the father of a…

ALPHARETTA, Ga. / MADISON - Alison Mann Nottage, age 57, passed on May 31, 2016, in the presence of her loving family.

PRAIRIE DU CHIEN - Donovan Allan Daentl, age 81, of Prairie du Chien, died Monday, May 30, 2016, at Crossing Rivers Medical Center, Prairie du Chien, Wis. Donovan Allan Daentl was born Nov. 17, 1934, in Waunakee. He was the…

JANESVILLE - Patrick William Ryan died on May 30, 2016, in Janesville. He was born in Madison on Oct. 8, 1955, the son of Diana and Donald Ryan.

BARABOO - Dorothy J. Ennis, age 87, died on Wednesday, June 1, 2016.

MADISON - Raymond Theodore Klettke, age 86, died on Monday, May 30, 2016, at Meriter Hospital in Madison. He was born on June 22, 1929, in Fond du Lac, the son of Theodore Klettke and Verna (Batchelder) Klettke.

BARNEVELD - Kathryn A. Fargo, age 70, of Barneveld was called home by Our Lord on Wednesday, June 1, 2016, after a courageous battle with cancer. She was at Agrace in Fitchburg and passed away peacefully with her family at…

STOUGHTON - Nancy J. Reineke, age 72, of Stoughton, passed away on Thursday, June 2, 2016, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg.

EVANSVILLE - Dr. Howard Henry Krueger, DVM, age 85, died June 1, 2016, with his family around him. He was born to Edwin H. and Helen A. (Anschuetz) Krueger on Aug. 14, 1930, in Cedarburg, Wis., where he enjoyed his…

MADISON - Philip L. Talty, age 89, died on Wednesday, June 1, 2016, at Agrace HospiceCare. He was born on Sept. 14, 1926, to Leo and Ruby (White) Talty in Green Bay.

MADISON / ROCKFORD, Ill. / BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. - John Joseph Gaffney, age 76, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, June 1, 2016, in Madison. He was born on Nov. 27, 1939 in Rockford, Ill., to the late Raphael and Catherine…