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The Vilas family donated the land where the Henry Vilas Zoo sits today and designated that it always remain free to the public. 

State regulators are reminding car and truck dealers that a new, updated buyers guide for used vehicle inspections goes into effect Jan. 1. 

I have begun assembling my Winter Survival Car Kit, and you should too.

The Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps will perform before the biggest audience in their 76 year history Thanksgiving Day in New York City.

A group of 27 U.S. senators has written to President Barack Obama urging him to keep in mind the valuable role of the Critical Access Hospital program as he prepares his fiscal year 2016 budget.

The Vikings weren't pushovers of Sunday's 24-21 loss, but in the end, Aaron Rodgers and Eddie Lacy were simply too much to handle as the Packers showed why they remain the class of the NFC Nor…

Advocates for food rights who seem to want to take Wisconsin back to the 1920s should pay special attention to a developing story in western Wisconsin, where 38 people were sickened after a po…

PLATTEVILLE, Wis. (AP) — For two summers, a visible sunflower patch along a business park off Highway 151 became a popular destination for pictures.

Award: Nan Brien and Leslie Ann Howard are the recipients of the 2014 Jeffrey Clay Erlanger Civility in Public Discourse Award.

Two months ago, Taylor Herrick rode in an open convertible waving to blue-and-gold-wearing Bulldog boosters who hailed her as Pardeeville High School’s Homecoming queen.

PARDEEVILLE — When Mark Frank asked deer hunters if he could check out the animals that they’d bagged, he didn’t mean just to admire the quality of meat or the number of points on the antlers.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Senior Drew teDuits helped put the finishing touches on a solid weekend for the University of Wisconsin swimming and diving teams with a victory in the 200-yard backstroke Sun…

DES MOINES, Iowa — There was nothing wrong with the way the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team shot from the floor Sunday.

The death of a man found on a city street was not a 'random incident,' police say.

MINNEAPOLIS -- You didn't think the Green Bay Packers were going to put up 50 points every week, did you?

Tom Oates assesses the Packers' performance in Sunday's game against Minnesota.

IOWA CITY, Iowa — As the University of Wisconsin football team prepared for Saturday's game at Iowa, it didn’t pretend that was all that mattered.

It took 15 or more years and countless accidents before the Madison Beltline, plus our new Highway 12, were completed.

How about we compromise on the minimum wage and make it two tiers?

Regarding the recent letter "Preserve peaceful Blue Mound State Park": Snowmobiling is an approved use in our state parks, supported by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.