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The visit of Iraq’s Prime Minister Haidar Abadi to Washington this week will test whether the White House has any Mideast strategy beyond a nuclear deal with Iran.

Madison's Kayser Ford is going strong at 90 years.

The inventive, fine-dining restaurant A Pig in A Fur is closed while it gets a new bar and waiting area.

They're making last-minute adjustments to their menu.

When gangs of grackles roar back into Wisconsin each spring with their loud squawks and black and bruised-purple feathers, I think, “Well, there goes the neighborhood.”

Gov. Scott Walker has said that if he is elected president, he would cancel any deal that President Barack Obama signs with Iran. 

As Paul Ryan warns, "empty promises will soon become broken promises."

The state Assembly is scheduled to take up a bill Tuesday that would allow driver's education instructors to use online course instruction.

Once again, Gov. Scott Walker’s budget is taking Wisconsin in the wrong direction. Instead of spending more to curb runoff pollution, the 2015-17 budget actually cuts programs that address the…

A consultant reports that Enbridge's offer wouldn't ensure a full cleanup as conditions change over the long haul.

In San Juan Capistrano spring brings swallows. Here we get moles. The furry kind, that is. The furry kind with four feet that tunnel through the yard, that is.

With animal facts and lively fun, "Wild Kratts Live!" to play to packed Capitol Theater.

The Sunflower Project, an effort of the UW-Platteville's sustainability program, is evolving into a student-run business that will be as much about marketing and planning as the flowers that w…

Sequoya Library saw the most number of votes, in-person and absentee, in Tuesday's general election. 

Monroe author John Evangelist Walsh was an expert on Edgar Allen Poe, but wrote on many other subjects as well.

Duncan Roberts’ pals had to make do without him Saturday.

“You foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but do not see, who have ears, but do not hear.” — Jeremiah 5:21

It’s all about making it easier for victims of one of the most horrific types of crimes. As much as we try not to think about it, there are Wisconsinites who were raped and abused as children,…

April's showery reputation is likely the result of two, interrelated physical processes that characterize the arrival of spring.

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