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Consider taking in a fishing and outdoors show on Saturday at the Wilderness Fish and Game store in Sauk City.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Frank Kaminsky spent most of the first half on the bench in foul trouble last season at Williams Arena.

As sharply as their skates carved through the Dane County Coliseum ice on Thursday, their fate changed.

Whether it’s turkeys or gardening; walleyes or composting; studying geology or nature; eating fish or planting seeds there’s something that can be experienced on March 21, beginning at 10 a.m.…

WASHINGTON — Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress was notable in two respects. Queen Esther got her first standing O in 2,500 years. And President Obama came up empty in his campaign to pr…

Snowmobile trail status remains virtually unchanged from recent weeks on the Wisconsin Department of Tourism's Snow Conditions Report, with only trails in the northern tier of counties open.

AAA Wisconsin is deeply concerned about proposed legislation that would raise the maximum speed limit on rural highways to 70 mph. Higher speeds make it more difficult for vehicles to slow or …

Jonah Goldberg objected to a journalist asking Gov. Scott Walker if he believed in evolution in his Feb. 15 column. Goldberg rather angrily accused the reporter of opening up illegitimate issu…

Gov. Scott Walker, let me tell you who I am.

The lead story in Tuesday's State Journal revealed that Gov. Scott Walker wants to eliminate Wisconsin’s 48-hour waiting period between when a background check is submitted and the purchaser c…

A letter in Wednesday's paper "Condemn Walker ISIS comparison" criticized Gov. Scott Walker for drawing an analogy between Wisconsin protesters and ISIS fighters.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Regents and chancellors in the University of Wisconsin System are vowing to fight back against Gov. Scott Walker's proposed budget cuts.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Cottage Grove man is charged with setting a fire that destroyed the future home of a convicted sex offender.

The Madison company says drug development businesses working to create drugs to fight liver infections accounted for much of the jump in stem cell-derived liver calls.

A member of the Turkeys of Madison, Wisconsin, Facebook page posted that he saw a Madison police car hit a turkey.

The winning brew will be served at the Memorial Union on May 1 and distributed state wide.

Gov. Scott Walker's political non-profit slammed Hillary Clinton for using a private email system during her time as Secretary of State.

FITCHBURG - Genevieve (Jones) Jackson, age 102, passed away on Friday, Feb. 27, 2015. She was born to Margaret (Blaney) and Thomas Jones on Nov. 24, 1912, in Wales, U.K. She came to America wi…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Sandy (Diana) Darby, born in Redondo Beach, La., died on Feb. 27, 2015, in Louisville, Ky. Sandy, a longtime resident of Madison and owner of Renaissance Travel, has died aft…