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This week's recipe took honorable mention in the State Journal's gourmet main dishes category in 1976 and was submitted by Mrs. John N. Quinn of Madison.

Seventy-seven years ago my mother gave birth to me at St. Mary’s Hospital where the nuns seemed in awe of a baby being a rather strange combination of my immigrant Sicilian-born father, and my…

OUR VIEW: The state Senate should pass AB 27 today, allowing traffic engineers to determine where a higher speed limit makes sense

A longtime media personality, once erroneously reported dead, dies for real.

Neighborhoods matter.

"We did our evaluation in a short period of time to make a decision, and decided to move forward with Craig" Counsell, Mark Attanasio said on Tuesday.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A truck driver from Montana has been sentenced to 10 months in jail for a crash that killed a student teacher in Dane County.

The second-ranked Middleton boys golf team finished a solid fourth in The Legend Invitational on Tuesday in Hartland.

The Brewers' season-high three-game winning streak ends.

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Madison Edgewood's Amy Davis breaks Katie Ishmael’s 34-year-old record in the 3,200 meters.

Dane County would be silenced on its own water quality standards under a last-minute motion approved Tuesday by the state Legislature's budget committee.

Ask anyone who was around Craig Counsell during his major league career and invariably two things will come up in the conversation: He was a great teammate and a proven winner.

City Engineering Division analyses three options for the future of the Neo-Classical Revival-style structure.

Having a platoon of well-paid state auditors going after a small percentage of error and abuse by low-income state FoodShare recipients is akin to going fishing with a bazooka. The successful …

Saturday’s State Journal described a painting at the Central Library to which police labor groups object. All thoughtful citizens should join in objecting for several reasons.

I administered many projects requiring prevailing wages during my career in government, and I'd like challenge the accuracy of the case being made by advocates of ending this law.

Requiring a civics test to graduate from high school is a brilliant idea.

Since the early 1930s, all levels of Wisconsin government have issued contracts under prevailing wage laws, which require the hourly labor rates paid under these contracts to be far above loca…