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Tips for your flowers, plants, trees and shrubs.

Madison and Dane County need an enormous amount of new housing to meet growing demand — nearly 140,000 units by 2040, according to the latest analysis.

President Joe Biden recently announced plans for Microsoft to build a new artificial intelligence data center in southeastern Wisconsin. The new $3.3 billion center will create 2,000 permanent jobs and occupy a site once planned for a Foxconn factory.

The stabbing victims were taken to a hospital and are recovering from their injuries, Janesville police said.

Hundreds gathered Saturday under the chandeliers in the New Glarus Fest Haus for the second annual World Euchre Championship — pretty much the Midwestern version of “American Ninja Warrior.”

Some interesting findings out of a study in Sweden.

Sun Prairie East and Middleton's rivalry knows no bounds on the baseball diamond. Neither does the communities' continued combined support for a great cause.

Volunteer directors for emergency medical services across the state are concerned about the proposed increase in training hours for emergency medical responders.

Widely considered to be Madison’s premier street, according to the 2012 Downtown Madison Plan, State Street’s architectural and cultural history is threatened again. The 2012 plan states that State Street is “a lively corridor comprised mostly of two- to four-story,…

I was behind the police line at the Commerce Building riot at UW-Madison in 1967. Crossing Bascom Hill, I had encountered small clusters of young people helping bloodied demonstrators away from the packed crowd. The police had just cleared the…

I am a physician. Physicians are trained to care for a patient in crisis or emergency situations by responding to the most important risks for life loss, such as a closed airway or a crushed chest.

If you think America's current political system is running in rough idle now, just wait until after the 2024 presidential election. It will get worse. Our country will have more turmoil, no matter who wins.

Fentanyl is not streaming across the southern border, as several conservative commentators claim. Please refer to the Drug Enforcement Administration reports that show illegal drugs come primarily through ports of entry, not in migrants' pockets and backpacks crossing the southern…

As someone who protested the Vietnam War, I'm reaching out to the younger generation about campus unrest and this year's upcoming election.

The newly updated mammogram guidelines recommend testing from age 40 to 74 years.

I recently had to go to the UW Health urgent care clinic on Mineral Point Road in Madison.

I've never been afraid of the Democrats taking away my guns, but the National Rifle Association and gun manufacturers have sold a lot of firearms with that marketing campaign. The commonsense approach to owning and having guns is quite simple,…

As more and more people suffer from the effects of climate change on our landscape, more needs to be done to protect the ecosystems that surround us. Wetlands cover just 6% of our landmass and are continuing to decline.

The catcher's big hit turned the game around Saturday night in Houston. Here's how it played out.