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When my sister and I were children and flew to summer camp together, our mother always asked us to call her once we arrived to let her know we landed safely.

Paul Chryst’s hiring might as well have been in a private, family-run company, or a dictatorship.

The Wisconsin Republican is set to take over as head of a key committee as he prepares for a tough reelection fight.

U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, is talking about “unreasonably long sentences” that “may actually make people more likely to return to crime.”

WEYERHAEUSER — The recent decision by a federal judge to put the wolf back under the protection of the Endangered Species Act is a step backward for further recovery and management of the animal.

A proposal to limit the amount of unhealthy food that Food Share recipients buy with government assistance failed to get a vote in the state Senate last year.

Dane County is evaluating dairy manure treatments that filter out solids and lake-fouling nutrients, leaving only clear water.

This holiday season, let’s suppose what might strike some as a miracle -- that our Democratic president and a Republican Congress will soon join forces to do something wondrously humane. Let’s…

We all have tasks we try to get done before the end of the year, and Kim Jong Un's is amping up the crazy.

While survey respondents routinely report levels of stress above what they consider healthy, we're not doing very good as a society managing it.

This Wisconsin State Journal editorial appeared on Dec. 31, 1914:

A multi-sensory experience is on display at the VSA Wisconsin Gallery with an exhibition titled “Can You Feel It?” The show features work by artists with visual impairments. Visitors are invit…

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The holidays are always a time for me to pause and reflect not only on the days gone by, but also on the meaning of life — my life.

In effect, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., declared that although gray wolves aren’t biologically endangered in the Western Great Lakes, they remain legally endangered. I…

'When coach Andersen left, we (seniors) all looked at each other and said, ‘There’s no way we’d rather go out than having coach Alvarez coach us one last time...,' Sam Arneson said.

Green Bay's defense hasn't allowed a touchdown in the past two games, but its offense has sputtered after a seven-game stretch near midseason when it averaged 39 points per game.

The scouting report that associate head coach Greg Gard delivered to the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team Friday didn’t include a section on Buffalo’s coach, though some of the Ba…

The test, 19 years in the making, is a noninvasive, DNA stool test for colorectal cancer.

The Florida weather agreed with the Madison Memorial boys basketball team during Saturday's opening game of the four-day, three-game Junior Orange Bowl Classic in Miami.