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When I was in my fecund 20s, if Donald Trump had offered me $5,000 to procreate, I’d probably have scheduled an emergency hysterectomy. Not that I couldn’t have used the dough, but any reader of history might justly recoil from…

Chicago native Robert Prevost has been elected to lead the Catholic Church. Pope Leo XIV will be the first pope from the United States. He appears to be in the model of Pope Francis, something that will excite more progressive…

Tips for your flowers, trees and shrubs.

So this is “the art of the deal.” The author of the book with that title is illustrating the subtleties of dealmaking in negotiations about Ukraine.

Critics suggest libraries are outdated if not obsolete in the digital world.

Democrat-backed state Supreme Court candidate won Wisconsin in April, while President Donald Trump carried the state in November.

A proposal to double the state boys and girls basketball field to 40 teams has strong support from statewide coaches. Here's what it could mean.

Let's tackle a timely topic.

A DeForest High School sophomore and a mom from Waunakee are among the women with local ties trying to compete for the top prize in women's golf.

It was sad to read in the Wisconsin State Journal that Cottage Grove has not had a public library for many decades, relying on a bookmobile since 1969 to serve the community.

As a person driving students around in my Ubermobile, I have to take issue with Adam Guillette's May 1 assessment of higher education, "Universities are too expensive, radical," at least in the Madison area.

Instead of bellyaching about the Trump administration and playing politics, how about Attorney General Josh Kaul enforce the law in this state?

The late Pope Francis took a strong stand in his condemnation of the genocide in Gaza.

Farmers in our rural communities as well as families and small businesses across our state rely heavily every day on gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles and natural gas-fueled equipment.

Thanks for Mary Anna Mancuso's well-reasoned guest column last Sunday, "Not even a judge is above the law," about the arrest of Milwaukee Judge Hanna Dugan. I agree that "hailing Dugan as a hero is dangerous. If judges are allowed…

Regarding last Sunday's column by Mary Anna Mancuso, "Not even a judge is above the law," I wholeheartedly agree that Judge Hannah Dugan appears to have violated the law by helping Eduardo Flores-Ruiz leave Dugan's courtroom.

The State Journal published an exhaustive report on the length of Madison City Council meetings in last Sunday's paper. I can't grasp the proposed solutions.

First American pope? That would be Pope Francis.

It is priceless to hear the excuse from U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Prairie du Chien, for not attending a town hall meeting because of “threats" to his family. Then he continues by blaming the "radical far left" for its…

NEW YORK —The Celtics’ 3-point touch came back in Game 3, so the Knicks didn’t.