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High rates of students exempted from vaccination at some local schools have health officials concerned about the possibility of outbreaks in Dane County.

First the governor proposed a $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin System.

A plaque in a children's park prompts a search for the man who designed it.

I don’t know how much more flippant politicking I can take from Wisconsin's governor/presidential candidate -- nor how much more righteous indignation I can take from the officials of multimil…

February is not roses and songbirds, but it’s the beginning of all things spring. Finding a few of these wonders of nature is a better tonic than anything that comes in a bottle.

Andy Rubin, a master printer at Tandem Press in Madison, is exhibiting paintings at Gallery Marzen in a show titled “The Weight of Weather.”

This State Journal editorial ran on Feb. 9, 1940:

Coming in Wisconsin this week:

I was a terrific parent before I had children. I had all the answers. My children would not have temper tantrums in the grocery store. My children would follow all the rules. In truth, being a…

Tips for your flowers, trees and shrubs.

We are one year away from the Iowa caucuses and already several Republican presidential candidates are trying to secure an advantage by talking about their faith.

Yet history might be on the governor's side in the race for president

BARABOO — At last, someone has come up with the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for the single, lonely and disgruntled: It’s the gift of spite.

WASHINGTON — Flashback: Galileo is under house arrest pondering the unyielding ignorance of The Church for refusing to consider his heliocentric proposition that the Earth circled the sun.

Gov. Scott Walker is proposing budget cuts that could affect Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television and instructional programming offered by the Educational Communications Board.

In recent decades, you could make a good living betting on American military intervention in any foreign crisis covered by CNN. President Barack Obama has resisted demands to escalate our resp…

Tyler Perkins scored the game-winning goal in overtime Saturday night to lift the visiting Janesville boys hockey team to a 6-5 victory over host Sun Prairie.

One night after junior goaltender Kayla Black stopped 41 saves in a 0-0 tie, Blayre Turnbull and the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team sent her off after one period Saturday at LaBahn Arena.

Senior Drew teDuits set his second pool record in as many days as the University of Wisconsin men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams defeated UW-Green Bay in their dual-meet finales Satur…

The Monona Grove boys swimming team left no doubt about the team race during Saturday’s Badger South Conference swimming meet.