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CROSS PLAINS - Bernard N. "Buddy" Schroeder, age 91, passed away on Sunday, March 8, 2015. He was born on March 5, 1924, in Martinsville, Wis., the son of Peter D. and Mary R. (Pertzborn) Schroeder.

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University of Wisconsin Colleges history professor Mike Jacobs is challenging incumbent Zachary Weber for the District 3 seat on the Sun Prairie City Council. The general election is April 7. …

Five candidates, including three incumbents, are seeking the three positions open on the Wisconsin Heights School Board. The election is April 7.

Elizabeth Fixmer became fascinated with religious cults while practicing as a psychotherapist in Denver. There, the Fort Atkinson native worked with people who had left a religious cult, as we…

The $40 million plan is designed to make the downtown a more year-round destination.

Editor’s Note: Career Corner is a monthly column written by staff members of the UW-Madison Division of Continuing Studies.

The old joke about making love to a gorilla is that you don’t stop when you’re tired; you stop when the gorilla is tired.

Jennifer Chiaverini was so impressed by a real-life spat between two Civil War wives that she based her latest book around one of the high-profile women, Julia Dent Grant.

Surdyk heads the UW's INSITE program and the Burrill Business Plan contest.

They aren't thin-skinned, they say, but they also aren't interested in the 'coarseness' of 'The Book of Mormon.'

WASHINGTON — “At least nobody died,” we often hear in politics to explain away some regrettable act. As in:

Gov. Scott Walker has taken a more conservative stance on many issues, now that he is potential candidate for president. 

State fur exports jump 123 percent since 2012 with the help of North American Fur Auctions' United States headquarters that are based in Stoughton.

The study is considered groundbreaking for its specificity and detail.

If there’s one thing top politicians seem to agree on, it’s secrecy in government.

William R. Harris, an African-American hotel doorman, sat down for a meal on Feb. 25, 1917, in the newly remodeled Boston Cafe at 207 State St. in Madison.

Sylvester Youlo chronicles his remarkable journey in a new book, "The Boy from Pleebo."

The third floor of the Overture Center will be flooded with artwork that conjures water beginning on Tuesday. Waterways includes three Wisconsin artists — John Miller and Sarah FitzSimons of M…

Lost in discussions of Gov. Scott Walker’s $300 million budget cut for the University of Wisconsin System is how the sharing of the costs of instruction will be shifted from taxpayers to stude…