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In 2015, I hope Wisconsin legislators will actually debate issues when drafting new bills.

I beg to differ with the letter complaining about the interest rates banks are paying on certificates of deposits and savings accounts.

When is it ethical or morally justified for a government body to insert itselves between a family and its employer? Would the interests of an out-of-state third party make it justified?

In this time of so much controversy between police and the black community, a similar experience many years ago brings back clear memories.

The unrest in the world has fermented over many years and generations. My Marine son, after three tours of duty in Iraq, wondered which coming generation might find a way to seek guidance from…

The Burrill report says 2014 will be a record year for biotech and 2015 won't surpass it.

PARDEEVILLE - Helen Mary Salzman, age 100, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014, at the Larson House in Columbus.

ARENA / KING - Cecil Warren Perrin, age 51, passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014, at the King Veterans Home after a long debilitative disease.

WAUNAKEE - Jerry A. Pfeil, age 56, passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. Funeral arrangements are pending.

DODGEVILLE - Gerald D. Fingerson, age 84, of Dodgeville, died on Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014, at Sienna Crest in Dodgeville.

MOUNT HOREB - Evelyn J. Basthemer, age 94, of Mount Horeb, Wis., passed away on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2014, at Linden Grove Nursing Home in New Berlin, Wis., with family at her side.

VERONA - Ernest Rudolph Johnson, age 105, passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. He was born in Green County, Wis., in 1909, to Sever and Andrena (Peterson) Johnson.

BELLEVILLE - Phyllis Mae Short, age 87, longtime resident of Belleville, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. She was born on Dec. 15, 1927, in Oregon, Wis., to James and Annie …

A last hunt can put positive visions in the heads of hunters, regardless of how rewarding 2014 was.

After highs reached the mid to upper 40s in south central Wisconsin on Friday, the weather is expected to be closer to normal next week.

Madison police are investigating a shooting Friday afternoon on West Badger Road on the city's South Side.

Football fans heading to Green Bay for the big game between the Packers and Detroit Lions Sunday afternoon should expect big traffic jams and delays.

Aaron Rodgers is listed as probable for the Packers' NFC North showdown with the Lions. The winner Sunday clinches the division title.

Despite recent warming, a former DNR biologist and a former TV show host hook up with an Eau Claire columnist to pull in some big fish.

A woman found lying unconscious in a driveway in Green Lake County Friday morning, after being ejected from her SUV during a rollover crash, died at an area hospital.