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ELROY - Paul Cleaver, age 86, of Elroy, passed away after a brief illness, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014, at Heritage Manor in Elroy, Wis.

A one-day warmup to the low 40s is coming to Madison on Saturday, with temperatures dropping back to the 20s on Sunday.

The Dane Country Regional Airport will see several flights upgraded to larger aircraft next year.

You can help again this year.

October unemployment rates for Dane County and Madison remain near the lowest rates in the state, according to preliminary U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ estimates released by the state Depa…

Wisconsin From The Air will air Monday night on Wisconsin Public Television and provide 60 minutes of aerial views from throughout the state

Now that the big bird has been deep-fried in the backyard, what do you do with the oil? Recycle it at a Madison drop-off site.

Sending Christmas or other holiday cards to family and friends is a wonderful tradition but it can also be overwhelming, time consuming and not so enjoyable.

A new exhibit at the Wisconsin Historical Museum tells how people here survive and thrive during the winter. 

UW (6-0) vs. Oklahoma (4-1) on Friday at 3:30 p.m. on ESPN might not be as juicy as some matchups might have been, but it's intriguing.

What do you get when you take tens of thousands of football fans, deer hunters and holiday travelers and put them on the same highway? The Super Bowl of headaches.

A man armed with a handgun and wearing a scarf over his face robbed a Middleton dry cleaner store Wednesday night.

A man who broke into a Verona church Thursday night and threatened to burn it down surrendered to police about three hours later and was taken to a hospital for evaluation.

Recent events have not cast a flattering light on President Barack Obama’s approach to military and security matters. The rise of the Islamic State has forced him to reverse his withdrawal fro…

Why, if one can’t shoot them, or one is not hunting them, would a hunter want to see these species?

Good food — making it, eating it, sharing it — can take you from one frame of mind to another.

A joint TIF review board that represents all of the taxing entities in Stoughton has approved creation of a TIF district for the project in a unanimous decision.

The transitional housing program for men and women ages 18 to 21 opened in September in a house purchased by Dane County 

Part of the "trumpeters ring" is now open to the public.

WASHINGTON — Ferguson reminds us that we still have a race problem in America. But the face of this problem is not Darren Wilson’s. It’s Bob McCulloch’s.