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The World’s Largest Brat Fest is going green.

The restaurant's dinner and bar menus should be available soon on its website.

A state hearing examiner found that Oakhill Correctional Institution Sgt. Justyn Witscheber was part of a "clique" that allegedly harassed Oakhill officer Philip Otto, who took his own life in…

If you experience the unfortunate situation of a leaky roof during a torrential downpour, the most logical immediate recourse is to place a bucket on the floor as a stopgap.

The fate of America’s most important free-trade agreement this century has become caught in a debate over its most important free-trade agreement of the last century. When opponents of the pro…

They lead a group of accomplished area athletes and coaches to be honored at the banquet June 3 at Monona Terrace.

The governor says "a flip would be someone who voted on something and did something different."

Gov. Scott Walker's signature job-creation agency, Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., has been plagued by scandals and disastrous loans. 

Bare Bottom Madness is a new American pale ale from the fast-growing Baileys Harbor brewery.

NEW YORK (AP) — Industrialist David H. Koch (kohk) and financier Henry R. Kravis have made separate donations totaling $250 million for hospitals and medical research in New York City.

The culinary herb is commonly grown and has a variety of uses. 

Each week, we’re pulling a classic recipe out of the State Journal archives and sharing it here as it was originally printed years ago. Remember, ingredients and cooking techniques change over…

Today’s column will be a brief lesson in mushroomology. Bursting at the seams with mystery and intrigue, the world of mushrooms is filled with surprises beyond your wildest imagination. Just w…

Road budgets need sustainable sources of revenue instead

Rosemary Sullivan's new biography of Svetlana Alliluyeva arrives June 2.

By now everyone has had their say about Jeb Bush’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. The consensus is that Bush misheard Megyn Kelly’s “knowing what we know now” question about the I…

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Late Tuesday, the City Council rejected 16-2 an alternate resolution from Ald. David Ahrens that aimed to open negotiations to developers besides JDS/Exact Sciences.

DETROIT — The Milwaukee Brewers used some power and dominant pitching to run over the Detroit Tigers.