Wisconsin State Journal Local News

February 15, 1961 - April 24, 2025

Jake Bauers hit a two-run homer as the Milwaukee Brewers got all their runs in the first inning of a 4-3 victory over the Houston Astros on Tuesday.

A Cottage Grove man accused of intentionally driving into a family, killing the mother and the family dog and injuring a teenage boy, died in the Dane County Jail early Tuesday, a source familiar with the situation confirmed.

An ironic side note to Donald Trump’s status as the most demonstrably dishonest president America has ever had (more than 30,000 verifiable lies during his first term, reports The Washington Post, with the pile now growing ever larger in his…

Above: Marisol D’Estrabeau, a visual artist from Cancun, Mexico, works on a mural on the exterior of an apartment building at the corner of West Washington Avenue and La Mariposa Lane in the Bayview Community Tuesday. D’Estrabeau met with Bayview…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney faced off in the Oval Office on Tuesday and showed no signs of retreating from their gaping differences in an ongoing trade war that has shattered decades of trust…

Taylor Blair waters the plants next to Gates of Heaven on Tuesday, May 6, 2025 at James Madison Park in Madison, Wi.

WASHINGTON — Travelers who haven’t obtained a Real ID by this week’s deadline received assurances from the head of Homeland Security that they will be able to fly after additional identity checks. Her comments came Tuesday as people were waiting…

Big Ten universities come together for sporting events — they should be able to do it for existential crises, too, a sponsor of the resolution said Monday.

Democrats said their GOP colleagues are turning "their backs on working families by removing broadly popular policy proposals in pursuit of a massive tax giveaway to their ultra wealthy donors."

Madison police are taking the lead in the investigation along with the county medical examiner,

By the time police arrived, the people involved in the incident had left, and the victim had been taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Each meeting will focus on a key area of service: public works, city administration and facilities, public safety, transportation, and community and economic development.

I hate my new car.

Area forwards delivered pivotal goals during the past week of high school girls soccer action. Vote for your favorite athlete to be this week's Supernova.

Voters in Wisconsin’s farm country should look out for themselves when it comes to low-cost programs that improve safety and health without costing an arm and a leg.

Landowner Chad Sauey said his father "wanted the land to be used to encourage people to put roots down in Baraboo and make Baraboo their home."

The Sun Prairie-based company will shutter three Madison area stores but open two others.

Former State Journal writer Tom Alesia mostly wrote about entertainment and music during his newspaper career. But his second baseball book focuses on Madison's successful summer team.

Record breakers and momentum changers starred during last week's rain-affected high school baseball action. Vote for the most notable performance as the Supernova.