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The mayor now gets less vacation than top managers, but the City Council has questions about dramatically increasing a benefit.

A Chocolate Shoppe ice cream store is set to open April 24 on Highway PD in Fitchburg selling 48 flavors of ice cream as well as shakes, malts and sundaes.

MADISON - Doris Ann Uitvlugt (nee Quinn), age 91, a Chicago native and retired executive secretary at Wilson Sporting Goods who worked with professional athletes for many years, passed away Tu…

UNION GROVE - Martha Louise Parkinson, age 102, formerly of Union Grove, passed away on Monday, April 13, 2015, at Samaritan Health Care Center in West Bend.

LELAND - Edwin "Junior" Sprecher, a.k.a. Junie, June Bug, JR, age 88, drew his last draft of beer on April 1, 2015. Leave it to Dad to go out on April Fool's Day. He enjoyed his life until the…

DEERFIELD / COTTAGE GROVE - Gordon Alexander Nesthus, age 98, passed away Sunday, April 12, 2015, at his home, surrounded by his family. Memorial services are pending.

MADISON - Evelyn Ruth Crump, age 83, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, April 14, 2015, at St. Mary's Hospital.

MOUNT HOREB - Clarence F. "Joe" Sutter, age 76, of Mount Horeb, passed away Monday, April 13, 2015, on a sunny day, on a drive with his wife. He was born May 25, 1938, to Ed and Apollonia (Kel…

CRANDON / McFARLAND - Nancy Ann Roder (nee Hughes) (Weiss), age 81, died peacefully at AGI Healthcare in Crandon, Wis., on April 13, 2015.

MERRIMAC - Harry W. Larsen, Jr., age 81, of Merrimac passed away peacefully on Tuesday, April 14, 2015, at Select Specialty Hospital in Madison. He was born on Aug. 20, 1933, in Chicago, Ill.,…

COLUMBUS / VERONA - Sandra Harrison Columbus, age 57, died peacefully at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg, surrounded by family on Tuesday, April 14, 2015, from reoccurring cervical cancer whic…

SAUK CITY - How do you sum up a life in a few short paragraphs? "The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they must be felt with the heart" ~ Helen Keller. Mom will fo…

Walker recently visited New Hampshire and South Carolina and his poll numbers in those states have since increased.

Three YouTube videos show how Madison police broke up a protest that had shut down traffic on E. Washington Ave. for eight hours on Tuesday.

Two men have been arrested in the murder of Jacob Payne, whose body was found by a canoeist on Saturday off of Governor's Island in Lake Mendota.

Jurors at the insanity trial of former Dane County Sheriff's Deputy Andrew Steele were read and shown a note Wednesday that Steele composed on his phone, which appears to detail what could be …

WASHINGTON -- Give credit to Republicans in Congress.

Whitewater went 45-0 and won three Division III national championships during Blanchard's time at the school.

Home purchases were up 18 percent over March 2014, while median price rose 6.3 percent to $220,000.

The Republican co-chairs of the Joint Finance Committee on Wednesday announced that they were removing the proposal from the budget.