Wisconsin State Journal Local News

Rick Zynda will make his 19th trip to the island nation this summer to help improve the standard of living there.

UW-Madison graduate student Riley Balikian helps lead the national group Young Evangelicals for Climate Action.

Marilyn Beach makes sure no newborn enters the world without basic necessities.

Chris Hodge founded the Mt. Zion Academic Learning Center to make sure all children excel in the classroom.

Turkey and deer hunters have three days to purchase all their hunting licenses and permits, listen to dozens of seminars, sample food, admire new equipment and gear, and talk to like-minded folks.

Nobody knows Madison the way Paul Soglin does. He’s been mayor of the state’s second-largest city for 18 years over four decades.

At best, a proposed Madison ordinance to restrict where convicted child sex abusers can live will serve to protect a subset of children from a subset of abusers in a subset of venues.

An April 12 show at the Brink Lounge celebrates three decades of a group dedicated to live music in Madison.

As you labor over your tax returns this month, spare a moment of sympathy for the least-loved agency in the federal government: the Internal Revenue Service.

Middleton-based photographer Michael Knapstein is currently showcasing a selection of his work at the Gallery at the Cambridge Winery Madison Tasting Room, located on Madison’s West Side.

This Wisconsin State Journal editorial ran on April 5, 1920:

I’ve been involved in the criminal justice system for over 30 years. Prior to serving as an attorney in private practice, I was a state and federal prosecutor, secretary of the Wisconsin Depar…

“I pledge to my city a more complete understanding of her problems, a more liberal conception of her limitations, … a more generous contribution to her needs, and a more active participation ……

Tips for your flowers, trees and shrubs.

Coming in Wisconsin this week:

“Reagan has accelerated the moral disarmament of the West by elevating wishful thinking to the status of political philosophy.” — George F. Will, 1987, on the United States’ nuclear weapons ne…

WASHINGTON — For a variety of reasons, I gave up alcohol Jan. 4.

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — Who is this Scott Walker, and why has he taken off like a house afire in the race for next year’s Republican presidential nomination even before it’s really begun?

INDIANAPOLIS — Way back in October, they started telling anyone who would listen what they were going to do.

MILWAUKEE — It’s an easy assumption, considering one was traded to make room for the other, but as spring training opened, Milwaukee Brewers manager Ron Roenicke wanted to make something abund…