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PORTAGE - Ardyth J. Jones, age 85, of Portage, passed away on Monday morning, Jan. 19, 2015, at home, with Herb and her daughter, Sheri by her side.

Former Obama official Van Jones tells Wisconsin Capitol crowd to open door and listen to cries of 'black lives matter.' 

But he won't expand on the internal discussions until his Feb. 3 budget address.

Three people were found lying in a Beloit intersection after they were shot Monday afternoon, with a fourth person found injured in another location.

Walker thinks America doesn't want Mitt Romney's old ideas. But what he has to offer isn't exactly innovative. 

It’s time for the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Tomah to come clean.

The program is through WEDC and UW-Extension.

Brian Bengry understands the importance of investing his client’s portfolio in sustainable and socially conscious investments to reflect their personal values.

The JMM Rock Music Collective was formed in 2011 to provide a space for students to practice, to help them form musical groups and to provide performance and marketing instruction.

The Wisconsin nonprofit foundation has raised nearly $8 million so far.

The Badgers (16-2, 4-1 Big Ten) play host to No. 25 Iowa (13-5, 4-1) at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Kohl Center.

Join political reporters Mary Spicuzza and Matthew DeFour at noon today for a live chat about the legislative session at the upcoming state budget.

Walker will join other presidential contenders at the event scheduled to take place in Washington in late February.

In an expected, though disappointing, vote recently, conservative Republicans in the U.S. House undermined President Barack Obama’s efforts to act on the nation’s broken immigration system.

Memorial swimmers, relays hold statewide best times of season in six of 12 events.

Kimberly Blaeser wants people to put more poetry in their 'memory bank'

The Madison-area office of general contractor Kraus-Anderson Construction is to turn over the store March 1.

If the woody plant survived the winter, its buds will expand when a branch is cut, immediately placed in water, and left in a warm, 60-65-degree household.

There are times when I cannot sleep and find myself downstairs in that cold belly of time between midnight and dawn worrying about everything and nothing in particular all at once.

Anecdotally it has been at least 20 years since a cold season has flipped from below normal to above normal in consecutive months from November to February.