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PORTAGE - Eileen M. Salzman, age 91, died on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015, at Our House in Portage.

DARLINGTON - Iona L. Loken, age 86, of Darlington, passed away Monday, Feb. 23, 2015, at Lafayette Manor in Darlington. She was born on Feb. 3, 1929, to Horace and Avis (Steiner) Van Matre in …

MADISON - Delores Joan Foulk, age 74, passed away at home on Feb. 22, 2015, after a lengthy battle with cancer.

MONONA - Keith N. Frederickson, age 83, of Monona, passed away surrounded by his family, on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015, at St. Mary's Care Center. He was born in Spring Green, Wis., on July 14, 193…

Madison Democrats Rep. Lisa Subeck and Sen. Fred Risser plan to hold a budget meeting Thursday in Madison.

Gov. Scott Walker has catapulted onto the national presidential stage while defending a controversial budget back home. He’s making headlines in Des Moines, as well as Madison.

"Sadly, the state of the students is drastically not well," said Amanda McGovern, a UW-Stevens Point student and president of the United Council of University of Wisconsin Students

Though he first replied that he didn't feel he needed to comment on Giuliani's comments, he later said he doesn't know if Obama is a Christian.

The new thinking: scarfing down cholesterol-chocked delicacies does not appear to significantly affect the level of cholesterol in the blood for many people.

The Badgers can clinch a share of the Big Ten title with a win over No. 14 Maryland Tuesday night in College Park, Md.

The Senate Organization Committee voted 3-2 along party lines to call the body into session.

Martius Bautista, a fifth-grader at Edgewood Campus School, defended his title at the Madison All-City Spelling Bee on Saturday.

A house where a released sex offender was to live is a total loss after a fire in the town of Cottage Grove Sunday night.

Forward Theater takes on banned books in its third biennial monologue festival

There’s a recurring theme in the proposals Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans in the Legislature have been making with regard to the state’s independent agencies: Get them under our control.

The plan calls for assistance to students who can't afford driver education classes, and monitoring of police stops of minorities. 

While I enjoy a wide variety of music and feel the richer for it (you never know when a touch of Japanese grindcore is going to hit the spot), by and large my musical tastes are lagged to a br…

The Keyes House, 102 E. Gorham St., is the oldest designated historic landmark in Madison.