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A bike crash during the Horribly Hilly Hundreds bike race resulted in a call to Med Flight on Saturday, the Iowa County Sheriff's Department reported.

South-central Wisconsin has a sunny, warm Sunday ahead, forecasters say, but add there's a possibility of showers and thunderstorms Monday.

We prepare all year for winter and all weekend for summer.

When Andrew Maraniss took a Black History class during his college days at Vanderbilt, he encountered the story of Perry Wallace. In 1966, Wallace enrolled in Vanderbilt and became the first A…

In “The Cherry Harvest,” Madison author Lucy Sanna tells the fictional story of a Door County family fighting for their livelihood during World War II. In the summer of 1944, German prisoners …

Alec Slocum had plans to become a lawyer, but he was sidetracked into a totally different career path.

Growing pains have developer Terrence Wall's first big residential subdivision off to a slow, cautious start.

Culcita is the Latin origin of the term “quilt,” which means a stuffed sack. Quilts have also been described as a cloth sandwich with a decorated top, a filler in the middle, and usually a pla…

The five-year-old festival drew about 2,000 people last year from Madison and beyond. 

This year marks 150 years since H.H. Bennett opened his photo studio in what is now Wisconsin Dells.

Will the governor keep his promise to hold off his presidential announcement until the state budget is signed?

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.