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Greg Smithback, vice president of Business Development at Bachmann Construction, started his relationship with wood when he 8 years old working with his grandfather at Capitol City Lumberyard …

People decide on a career for any number of reasons: personal interest, natural talent, suggestions from friends or family. Yet, an important factor — the market need for workers in a particul…

John Hildebrand’s elegant book of essays, “The Heart of Things,” offers readers a year’s worth of meditations on life in the Midwest. As part of the State Journal Book Club’s coverage of his b…

The movie “The Princess Bride” provided dozens of classic quotes to suit nearly any occasion, as any true child of the late ’80s will attest. For instance:

The speakers offered differing views on exercising freedom of expression following the Jan. 7 attack on the satirical French weekly.

It's been almost 50 years since Lake Redstone in northwest Sauk County was filled and now an effort is underway to write its history.

Just Read It is a regular feature in which the State Journal seeks recommendations from authors, literary enthusiasts and experts, focused on the contributor’s particular genre of expertise.

In honor of the birth of Abraham Lincoln 206 years ago, Madison writer Paul Buhle presents his book “Lincoln for Beginners” in an event on Thursday.

Sales of new pianos nationally exceeded 230,000 in 1972 but have fallen steadily over the past 30 years to just 41,000 in 2012, according to a report in Music Trades.

Animal rights groups plan to oppose the bill that is expected to include a reporting provision that they say will stifle undercover investigations of farms that abuse animals.

Stewardship land buys would be crushed as highway borrowing rises, but Assembly Republicans may salvage part of the program.

High rates of students exempted from vaccination at some local schools have health officials concerned about the possibility of outbreaks in Dane County.

First the governor proposed a $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System.

A plaque in a children's park prompts a search for the man who designed it.

I don’t know how much more flippant politicking I can take from Wisconsin's governor/presidential candidate -- nor how much more righteous indignation I can take from the officials of multimil…

February is not roses and songbirds, but it’s the beginning of all things spring. Finding a few of these wonders of nature is a better tonic than anything that comes in a bottle.

Andy Rubin, a master printer at Tandem Press in Madison, is exhibiting paintings at Gallery Marzen in a show titled “The Weight of Weather.”

This State Journal editorial ran on Feb. 9, 1940:

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I was a terrific parent before I had children. I had all the answers. My children would not have temper tantrums in the grocery store. My children would follow all the rules. In truth, being a…