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It takes the entire state working together to retain young professionals.

Just Read It is a regular feature in which the State Journal seeks recommendations from authors, literary enthusiasts and experts, focused on the contributor’s particular genre of expertise.

When Todd Michael Cox first began writing his latest novel, “Beast,” he made a list of all of the elements the average werewolf story usually contains. And then, “I deliberately avoided all of them.”

More than 16 million Americans have gained health insurance as a result of the Affordable Care Act, federal officials say.

Darryl McCants of Madison is this week’s You Toon winner — and a repeat winner to boot. He also won our last caption contest two weeks ago.

The changes could lead to lower costs for public construction projects — and lower wages for the people who work on them.

The former Wisconsin Public Television journalist is bringing a new documentary to the Wisconsin Film Festival.

Just call him Ray caught-in-the-Cross-fire.

The Wisconsin Watercolor Society was founded in 1952 by a group of artists led by Marion Bode. Bode’s legacy lives on with the spring exhibition of the group, on view at the Fanny Garver Gallery.

SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN -- Two knee surgeries and one back fusion later, I am out on the streams again.

Coming in Wisconsin this week:

Two seed varieties created at UW-Madison decades ago — the Wisconsin 55 tomato and Wisconsin Lakes pepper — are still popular among home gardeners. Several other heirloom offerings have a conn…

Back in colonial times, before the advent of hybrid seeds that ensured every ear of corn in a given variety looked exactly alike and could be harvested and husked by machine, people gathered t…

This State Journal editorial ran on March 27, 1940:

Years ago Rush Limbaugh called me a liberal sportswriter, suggesting I was the harbinger of death to football in America.

Julian Castro is a smiling bundle of energy whose past includes being mayor of San Antonio and whose future may include a spot on a national Democratic ticket — say, as a nicely balanced runni…

WASHINGTON — The apparently intentional downing of a Germanwings airliner by the co-pilot has us riveted, as commercial plane crashes usually do.

From a dusty box in a cluttered room in the corner of a well-worn second-hand shop, a nun sang to me. So did Andy Williams. And Julie Andrews with Dick Van Dyke. With some background music fro…

How sweet it is. Our beloved Wisconsin Badgers are headed back to the Final Four in Indianapolis, the place where the movie “Hoosiers” was filmed.

With Sam Dekker producing his own hello-world moment on the same stage Kaminsky once did, the duo was the driving force behind the Badgers’ tension-filled, 85-78 victory over the Wildcats at S…