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Wisconsin once had 180,000 dairy farms, now it has less than 10,000 as mega-farms continue to dominate the landscape while small dairy farms scrape by and look for new ways to thrive.

The Rev. Everett Mitchell, pastor of Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church, is bucking strong cultural and religious traditions with his position on homosexuality.

Gov. Scott Walker is courting conservative Christians on the presidential stump, but some leaders question his commitment to their cause.

As often happens in the drive to protect everyone from being insulted, the policy is destined to come with a few caveats.

Mayor Soglin is right that feel-good legal protection for drifters isn’t the answer to health and safety concerns Downtown

Rick Berg remembers. A conservative member of The Madison School Board from 1983 to 1989, Berg was one of three members who opposed busing low-income children of color out of their neighborhoo…

Announcing his presidential candidacy in Miami on Monday, Jeb Bush staked out the pro-immigration end of Republican politics. He spoke pointedly in Spanish and responded to pro-immigration pro…

CHICAGO — American police live in a place even more wondrous than the one you know from “A Prairie Home Companion.” In Lake Wobegon, all the children are above average. In Police Land, every c…

Today, natural resource departments nationwide are faced with the huge challenge of maintaining quality bluegill fisheries. Northern states have it tougher because of shorter growing seasons.

As opinion polls keep finding higher popular support for same-sex marriage, Republican strategists have come to dread the issue. A lot of them want it to simply go away — and they think the Su…

Life has taught Wai Se that the pursuit of happiness is more important than the pursuit of money.

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Tips for your flowers, trees and shrubs.

Longtime journalist Alan Guebert has been writing about agriculture in his syndicated column, “The Farm and Food File,” for decades. It requires a lot of “heavy lifting each and every week,” h…

This State Journal editorial ran on June 18, 1915:

Parked along the third-base side of Warner Park, the Double Decker Pizza Bus sometimes leads to puzzled expressions on the faces of fans entering the ballpark to watch the Madison Mallards.

Collin Theroux’s final at-bat on Saturday night didn’t exactly start the way the Madison Mallards hoped.

WISCONSIN DELLS — Madison Memorial product Shareef Smith totaled 14 points, six rebounds and four assists Saturday, but his Division 1 North team suffered a 93-88 loss to the South in the Wisc…

MILWAUKEE — Senior forward Jordyn Ostrowski scored on a breakaway in the fourth minute of the second overtime Saturday to give the Schofield D.C. Everest girls soccer team its first state cham…

Gary H. Pertzborn, 52, was found dead Thursday in a silo on his property on Highway JG.