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The reopening of The Edgewater Hotel marked one of the biggest stories of 2014 but it also was a year that saw additions in the grocery market and expansions in retail.

A water main break near Linden and Babcock Drives on the UW-Madison campus could make for hazardous walking conditions until it is repaired Monday morning, UW-Madison police report.

Two men were injured in a single-vehicle crash in Cross Plains after striking a tree and becoming pinned the car, the Dane County Sheriff's Office reported.

Makers of emission control systems, cancer drugs and dairy products were among the growing companies.

The historic Grant County supper club was destroyed by fire but the owners are vowing to rebuild the popular spot.

Police are investigating multiple gun shots being fired on Madison's Far West Side late Saturday evening, the Madison Police Department reported.

Several bullet casings were found after police investigated reports of shots being fired in Fitchburg late Saturday night, Fitchburg police reported.

The annual event remembers people who died without shelter in Dane County and elsewhere in the past year.

South-central Wisconsin can expect falling temperatures in the next few days, but snow to go along with the cold likely will not happen until late next week, according to forecasters.

Karen Turner of Verona is this week’s You Toon winner. Congrats, Karen! Her caption about beer and cheese for Santa beat out more than 130 entries. Turner wins publication of her line with tod…

European Union's demand that U.S. cheese producers change the names of some of their products among the top stories in 2014.

The Wisconsin cranberry industry is in better position than other states to survive and improve its dominance in the market.

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…