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The Wisconsin Watercolor Society was founded in 1952 by a group of artists led by Marion Bode. Bode’s legacy lives on with the spring exhibition of the group, on view at the Fanny Garver Gallery.

SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN -- Two knee surgeries and one back fusion later, I am out on the streams again.

Coming in Wisconsin this week:

Two seed varieties created at UW-Madison decades ago — the Wisconsin 55 tomato and Wisconsin Lakes pepper — are still popular among home gardeners. Several other heirloom offerings have a conn…

Back in colonial times, before the advent of hybrid seeds that ensured every ear of corn in a given variety looked exactly alike and could be harvested and husked by machine, people gathered t…

This State Journal editorial ran on March 27, 1940:

Years ago Rush Limbaugh called me a liberal sportswriter, suggesting I was the harbinger of death to football in America.

Julian Castro is a smiling bundle of energy whose past includes being mayor of San Antonio and whose future may include a spot on a national Democratic ticket — say, as a nicely balanced runni…

WASHINGTON — The apparently intentional downing of a Germanwings airliner by the co-pilot has us riveted, as commercial plane crashes usually do.

From a dusty box in a cluttered room in the corner of a well-worn second-hand shop, a nun sang to me. So did Andy Williams. And Julie Andrews with Dick Van Dyke. With some background music fro…

How sweet it is. Our beloved Wisconsin Badgers are headed back to the Final Four in Indianapolis, the place where the movie “Hoosiers” was filmed.

With Sam Dekker producing his own hello-world moment on the same stage Kaminsky once did, the duo was the driving force behind the Badgers’ tension-filled, 85-78 victory over the Wildcats at S…

Judith Claire Mitchell’s novel about a trio of suicidal sisters, “A Reunion of Ghosts,” is the latest selection of the State Journal Book Club.

Meeper Technology says it makes Legos "come to life.'

Leave it to Bo Ryan to turn a question about the length of timeouts in the NCAA tournament into an analysis of playing time and how much energy is actually being expended by players in today’s…

BENSENVILLE, Ill. — Freddy Gerard’s second-period goal got the Capitols back within striking distance, but Madison couldn’t complete the comeback on Saturday night, dropping a 2-1 U.S. Hockey …

Drew teDuits came up short in his bid for victory in his final race at the NCAA men’s swimming and diving championships on Saturday in Iowa City, Iowa, but the University of Wisconsin senior c…

MILWAUKEE — The host Milwaukee Bucks tried to stand in the way of Golden State’s progress Saturday night.

PLAYER OF THE GAME

LOS ANGELES — Frank Kaminsky might not change the trend of one-and-done college basketball players beating a hasty exit for the NBA.