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MADISON - Matthew Elijah Julien Court was born in New Haven, Conn., on Feb. 7, 2004, and died in Madison, Wis., on July 13, 2015.

LA FARGE - Bonnie Hemstead, age 92, of La Farge, passed away peacefully on Thursday, July 16, 2015, at the Bethel Home in Viroqua, Wis., with her family by her side.

Even though the railroad-trespass exemption would cost nothing, and the combined $1 million in grants to nonprofit groups amounted to mere budget dust in the state’s $72.7 billion spending pla…

The heat advisory for south-central Wisconsin has been cancelled. But forecasters are still predicting high temperatures and thunderstorms for the area Saturday afternoon.

Stories that are making the news today in Madison and around the state and country. 

MADISON - John E. Heiser, age 83, passed away on Thursday, July 16, 2015. A full obituary will appear in next Sunday's edition. Please share your memories at www.CressFuneralService.com

Twenty rural Wisconsin high school students and teachers took part in a free, four-day camp last week, as part of a push for small-town students to pursue careers in science.

An event this weekend marks the anniversary of the end of the Civil War and the return of Wisconsin's soldiers. 

Is there any better proof of the demand for outdoor eating than, say, a patio at TGI Fridays with a great view of acres of parking lots?

So the beloved Atticus Finch was actually a racist? The saintly small-town attorney of “To Kill a Mockingbird” was really a member of a local White Citizens’ Council, that network of retrograd…

WHITEWATER — The decision of linebacker Zack Baun to drop out of Saturday’s Wisconsin Football Coaches Association All-Star Classic left the state’s premier showcase of high school talent in a…

WHITEWATER — The decision of linebacker Zack Baun to drop out of Saturday’s Wisconsin Football Coaches Association All-Star Classic left the state’s premier showcase of high school talent in a…

WHITEWATER — The decision of linebacker Zack Baun to drop out of Saturday’s Wisconsin Football Coaches Association All-Star Classic left the state’s premier showcase of high school talent in a…

Mark Chmura cannot wait.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Kiley Hackl, a fitness buff, was in a kickboxing class in Sun Prairie when she collapsed.

At 4:45 p.m. on a Wednesday, my two teen-aged grandsons and I walked from Hedden Road, also known as Highway Q, across Century Avenue to rent some movies.

Columnist Tom Oates recently wrote about former Coach Steve Yoder taking the UW men's Badgers basketball team to its first postseason tournament in many years. The column acknowledged a good g…

WHITEWATER — The decision of linebacker Zack Baun to drop out of Saturday’s Wisconsin Football Coaches Association All-Star Classic left the state’s premier showcase of high school talent in a…

MILWAUKEE — The breather for the All-Star break appears to have done the Milwaukee Brewers some good.

Anthony Gonsolin drilled a three-run double in the second inning to give Madison the lead and the Mallards hung on to defeat the Lakeshore Chinooks 6-2 Friday night in the nightcap of a Northw…