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Walker will join other presidential contenders at the event scheduled to take place in Washington in late February.

In an expected, though disappointing, vote recently, conservative Republicans in the U.S. House undermined President Barack Obama’s efforts to act on the nation’s broken immigration system.

Memorial swimmers, relays hold statewide best times of season in six of 12 events.

Kimberly Blaeser wants people to put more poetry in their 'memory bank'

The Madison-area office of general contractor Kraus-Anderson Construction is to turn over the store March 1.

If the woody plant survived the winter, its buds will expand when a branch is cut, immediately placed in water, and left in a warm, 60-65-degree household.

There are times when I cannot sleep and find myself downstairs in that cold belly of time between midnight and dawn worrying about everything and nothing in particular all at once.

Anecdotally it has been at least 20 years since a cold season has flipped from below normal to above normal in consecutive months from November to February.

Just-released figures leave no doubt that there is a canyon-wide wage gap in this country. Less clear is what if anything to do about it.

After months of speculation, it wasn’t surprising in the end that U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan chose to forgo a run for the presidency: The Janesville Republican has spent a career getting to the chair…

A few words on the limits to freedom of expression:

Tom Brady threw for 226 yards and three touchdowns as New England routed Indianapolis 45-7 in the AFC championship game Sunday night.

Scholarships: Frontier-Servco FS, of Jefferson, is offering 10 scholarships to full-time students pursuing a career in agriculture or agribusiness. Applications for the $1,500 Frontier-Servco …

SEATTLE — The “Fail Mary” game in 2012 stung the Green Bay Packers. That 20-point drubbing in this year’s opener humbled them. But it turns out those games were merely practice reps for what h…

State Journal columnist Tom Oates assesses the Packers' performance in Sunday's NFC title game vs. Seattle.

Though three players scored in double figures, the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team couldn’t hang with No. 24 Rutgers, driopping a 73-63 decision in a Big Ten Conference game on…

The Packers can't hold on to a 16-0 halftime lead.

Wisconsin's legislative session has opened with various plans for a school accountability law. Once again we are faced with having the wrong people involved in attempting to “improve and/or re…

So one of the first things Attorney General Brad Schimel does is join a lawsuit against a San Francisco law that firearms stored in one’s home must be locked.

In the Jan. 8 jobless claims report, Wisconsin had the third highest increase in new jobless claims of all states at 7,051.