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America’s Dairyland is in trouble. Wisconsin lost nearly half of its dairy farms in the last 10 years. Small and medium-sized farms in particular continue to struggle with labor shortages, high operational costs and aging facilities.

One detail in Fred Risser’s just-released autobiography speaks volumes: In all his 64 years serving Madison in the Wisconsin Legislature, he never once used an elevator in the state Capitol, even during the time he had a broken leg.

Brady Allen Heiling, 19, was from Clara City, Minnesota, about 110 miles west of the Twin Cities. The other driver in the crash, who police say was intoxicated, already faces one homicide charge.

After watching data sets be altered or disappear from government websites in unprecedented ways, statisticians, demographers and computer scientists have joined forces to capture and preserve data sets, sometimes clandestinely.

We owe author L. Frank Baum eternal gratitude for writing “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” In addition to entertaining generations of children, the story has proved endlessly useful to columnists in search of metaphors.

Some scientists worried that maybe the Barbados threadsnake had become extinct.

A new poll shows Americans' views of the Supreme Court have moderated somewhat since overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, but concern that it has too much power is rising.

Wisconsin's Gov. Tony Evers announced this week that he will not seek a third term. The 73-year-old former teacher has decided he's had enough time running the state and is making way for a new generation.

Coldplay, Morgan Wallen put Madison back on the map for big acts

The group seeks both legislation and a constitutional amendment to create a nonpartisan redistricting commission in Wisconsin.

Dear Doc: I have a friend who goes to a ketamine clinic for fun. He doesn’t have depression or PTSD, but heard that ketamine was a great drug to get high on and so, why not? It’s legal.

Longtime CBS analyst Gary Danielson gives his take on Wisconsin football's challenging schedule, quarterback Billy Edwards Jr. and more.

Letters to the Wisconsin State Journal have complained about tax cut “giveaways” or complaining about the wealthy “refusing to pay their fair share” of income taxes.

Todd Blanche, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and current second in command at the Department of Justice, has opened direct conversations with Ghislaine Maxwell, who could be seeking a pardon for her 20-year sentence for conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein…

Environmental voices of the past included John Muir, Rachel Carson and Wisconsin's Aldo Leopold and Gaylord Nelson. We listened, trusted and acted out of concern.

Both on domestic and foreign policy issues, President Donald Trump is flat-out wrong.

The incessant, almost daily body count of desperate Palestinians in Gaza and the deliberate destruction of their infrastructure is an avoidable catastrophe of historic proportions. It's something decent and moral citizens of the world should not tolerate any longer.

Six months into President Donald Trump’s term, this is a proper time to see how the American people are judging his presidency.

While the press and the MAGA crowd are concentrating on the whole debacle of financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, it really doesn’t matter to the average person what happens to his files. Whether President Donald Trump is in there…

I am horrified by last Sunday's Associated Press piece that "featured" President Donald Trump quotes about U.S. presidential portraits in the paper's Sunday Best section.