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A house in the town of Baraboo was extensively damaged Wednesday morning by a fire that started in the attached garage, with nobody hurt in the fire.

Perhaps the saddest goodbye of the season is to summer tomatoes. Although they’re available year-round, they never quite taste the same.

Heavy rains Wednesday prompted several evacuations, flooded roads and set off sandbagging efforts across southern Wisconsin.

Madison West is ranked third in Division 1, while Madison Edgewood is fourth in Division 2.

Why should Dane County taxpayers be the only ones on the hook for research that focuses on way more than Dane County?

Hosea Banks -- you know him as Joe -- has been shining shoes around the Capitol square for about five years.

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Wisconsin Dells is ranked third in Division 2.

The Brewers infielder gives the team a one-run lead with his second solo blast in the eighth, then the centerfielder protects it by leaping at the wall to prevent an Anthony Rizzo homer in the ninth.

The first time Lee Evans learned about reinvention, it was in the context of his football career after a major injury. The second time, it was about the rest of his life.

The decision has enormous potential to undermine the the team both on the field and in the locker room.

The senior earned all-conference honors as a hitter last year after earning honors twice as a setter the previous two years.

Plans for the entrepreneurial hub can now move forward.

MILWAUKEE -- Top Milwaukee and state officials agreed Wednesday that Wisconsin must move as quickly as possible to replace all of the estimated 176,000 lead pipes providing drinking water to homes and business in the state, with Department of Natural…

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The front-page article in Monday’s State Journal, "Obama shifts energy policy," tried to give President Barack Obama credit for the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions during his terms in office.

Eight years ago, Barack Obama ran for president with a message of hope and change. Obama was going to stop racial disparity and bring this country back together, while being transparent.

Thank you for keeping climate issues on the front page.

Thank you for keeping climate issues on the front page.

Arrogance is an occupational hazard of people who attain high government office. U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, is a classic example.