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PRAIRIE DU CHIEN – Roads, not rivers, now bring most visitors to this small city where Wisconsin’s largest river meets the Mississippi, the continent’s largest and most legendary waterway.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic candidate for governor Mary Burke has voted against raising property taxes as a member of the Madison school board.

Budget will raise school taxes almost $100 for the owner of an average $237,678 home

Cathy Sandeen has been vice president for education attainment and innovation at the American Council on Education since 2012. She'll start her new job Dec. 15 and earn $245,000.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin dairy farmers had another record-setting month of milk production in September and are on pace to set a new annual record.

The University of Wisconsin football team has never faced Rutgers and has never won a game in New Jersey. Those tasks will meld come Saturday.

Howard Marklein’s track record and experience make him the ideal person to serve as our Wisconsin state senator in the 17th District. Marklein’s tenure in the Assembly has proven he is a man o…

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Beloit police say they have identified a suspect in a shooting that wounded a man Monday morning.

September production numbers were 72 million pounds higher than the previous September and moved the state ahead of 2013's record pace for annual production. 

A town of Madison man pleaded guilty Monday to possessing child pornography.

Carlini is Big Ten Player of the Week and Morey co-Defensive Player of the Week for the Badgers, who move up one spot in the national poll. 

Madison police and the Dane County Sheriff's Office want to get the anti-overdose medication naloxone in the hands of their first responders.

Standing in his way are the town clerk and lawyers for the state's Government Accountability Board, who told Ziolkowski last week that a 1970 state Supreme Court ruling on a different matter c…

LODI - Jean B. Kirking died on Oct. 24, 2014, in Lodi. She was born on Oct. 2, 1925, to Dennis and Ruth (Brereton) Bayles, as the youngest of five children. Cortland, Favill, Lois (Gasser) and…

FORT ATKINSON - Dale Amacher, age 79, of Fort Atkinson, passed away on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014, at Fort Atkinson hospital.

BLACK EARTH - Dorothy E. Ketelboeter, age 91, of Black Earth, died on Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014, at Heartland Country Village.

DODGEVILLE - Kay Lynn Marten, age 52, of Dodgeville, passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by her loving family, on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014.

MADISON - Gladys L. Lustgraaf, age 89, passed away on Friday, Oct. 24, 2014.