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Timber rattlers are native Wisconsin reptiles found in counties all along the Mississippi River, and the six counties along the Lower Wisconsin River.

Critics had blasted the proposals, saying they lowered the standards for teachers in the state drastically.

A last-minute budget provision appears to exempt Enbridge Energy from a county-imposed pollution insurance requirement.

Americans are still trying to make sense of three ferocious attacks in France, Kuwait and Tunisia. Each was carried out Friday by apparent Islamic militants during Islam’s holy month of Ramada…

Republicans are supposed to be suspicious of big government.

"Transparency is the cornerstone of democracy and the provisions in the Budget Bill limiting access to public records move Wisconsin in the wrong direction," Schimel said in a statement. 

Jim Caruso is the third CEO in four years at the Madison company developing cancer-fighting drugs.

The Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of gay marriage was a landmark in the expansion of rights, power and moral legitimacy to a previously marginalized group.

Garrett Wartenweiler of the 10-year-old local band The Family Business is honored his band is up for best “rock performer” at this year’s upcoming Madison Area Music Awards. But he isn’t big o…

The Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday to allow nearly a dozen Texas abortion clinics to stay open while it considers whether to review an onerous new anti-abortion law was not just a welcome co…

OK. Let’s say that you’re a young gay guy who wants some anonymous sex. Do you go to a bar looking to pick someone up? Go online? Or maybe one of the new smartphone pick-up apps?

Stuffy nose? Itchy eyes? Mucus going down the back of the throat? If you’re prone to wheezing, perhaps you’re experiencing a wheeze or two? Or three? Or four? Or maybe you’re just tired and mi…

Area festivals mark Independence Day.

It started, as might be expected, as an idea dreamed up at a bar. “You know what would be awesome?” a 2012 article in The Atlantic describes a Discovery Channel exec saying in 1988. “Shark Week.”

Developer Jacob Klein is proposing a 95-unit building mostly set aside for low to moderate income tenants.

Dudley became expendable for the Bucks when they got Greivis Vasquez from the Toronto Raptors to give them a veteran shooter off the bench.

Milwaukee coveted Vasquez for his ability to distribute and run the offense, but his shooting — especially from long-range — will be the biggest benefit.

Jones can take part in all of training camp, but once the preseason ends he will not be able to attend any meetings, practices or team events. 

"Truth or Die" by James Patterson tops this week's fiction list.

There is a sizeable population of muskies from the Prairie du Sac Dam to the Highway 12 Bridge and to a lesser extent from the Bridge downriver (Lower Wisconsin Riverway) to the Mississippi River.