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Former New York Times restaurant critic Ruth Reichl will speak at a Madison Public Library Foundation fundraiser on June 2.

Tips for your flowers, trees and shrubs.

Coming in Wisconsin this week:

Spring is my favorite season. With flowers blooming and growing, it feels like it’s my personal reward for getting through another Wisconsin winter. And I find that as the years pass, the colo…

Trigger warning: This column will include discussion of ideas that may conflict with your own.

BROOKFIELD — A bill that would ban women from getting an abortion after 20 weeks of gestation appears to be moving forward.

PHILADELPHIA — Legislators across the country are launching a mean-spirited campaign to block poor people from purchasing certain kinds of foods, products or services.

Most coaches wouldn’t like it if their boss was peering over their shoulder at every meeting and every practice.

Milwaukee manager Craig Counsell said Saturday that he wasn't sure how soon the team would find out the outcome of the appeal.

University of Wisconsin student-athletes who are on full scholarship in 2015-16 are projected to receive among the largest, most varied cost-of-attendance stipends in the nation.

Monona Grove senior Gabby Beauvais swept the girls sprints and won two more events in a stellar effort at the WIAA Division 1 Holmen sectional track and field meet.

Jed Sprague scored the lead run on a wild pitch with two outs in the seventh inning, and the Madison Mallards edged the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters 3-2 on Saturday night in a Northwoods League am…

University of Wisconsin junior and former Dodgeville athlete Molly Hanson finished third in her heat in the 1,500 meters at the NCAA West preliminary round meet in Austin, Texas, securing a sp…

Less than a day after a passenger train derailed in Philadelphia, killing eight people and blocking lines up and down the Eastern Seaboard, a U.S. House panel voted to cut Amtrak’s budget by $…

The release of a partial list of books, documents, press clippings and other materials the United States government says were seized from Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan does make for s…

A crew of DNR wildlife scientists’ goal is to sample the tissues of about 35 eagles in the Wisconsin River corridor this spring. Other regions will receive attention in future years.

Jerry Jendusa will deliver a keynote address  during the June 2-3 Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference in Madison.

An unofficial visit to the University of Wisconsin this weekend was enough to convince Seth Currens to commit to the Badgers.

Paul Goldschmidt outslugged host Milwaukee with two homers and four RBIs off the Brewers' right-hander, leading the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 7-3 win Saturday.

The state Department of Corrections recently asked the Joint Finance Committee for more funds because of expected growth in the prison population, especially women, in the next few years.