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The NFC North has clearly been the best division in football this year. The Detroit Lions may be the best team in the NFL, the Viking are right behind them and the Green Bay Packers have been surprisingly good.

There was a trip to the Apostle Islands, a massive polka dance in Monroe, a Thai pavilion in Madison but also tornado recovery efforts, UW-Madison protests, election coverage and a school shooting.

Tips for your flowers, trees and shrubs.

I still remember some of my tendencies in grade school.

Readers of the Wisconsin State Journal have kept this program running since 1918, and you came through again.

Sensible limits can't prevent every mass shooting, but they will help

Three weeks after Madison voters approved a $22 million increase in property taxes based on Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway’s assertion that the city was broke, she now has proposed giving away our two ice arenas and the adjacent 7 acres of…

Since 1918, the Empty Stocking Club has provided Christmas toys to children in families in need in the greater Madison area.

The work could take weeks, police said. Authorities are also mulling criminal charges, although it's not clear against whom.

Before Jan. 1, Orthopedic and Spine Centers of Wisconsin had been unable to see former SSM Health patients because of a non-compete clause.

Since 1918, the Empty Stocking Club has provided Christmas toys to children in families in need in the greater Madison area.

The Badgers hockey teams tried not to let the final score be the takeaway from their experiences playing outdoors.

The regular-season finale is first, but the upcoming playoff teams will provide a different sort of challenge after the Bears.

Wisconsin is coming off a historic performance, but it has a road test against one of the Big Ten's most intriguing young teams.

In the late 1950s, my parents sent me to a farm camp in Wisconsin. The farm was called Swiss Croft and was owned by Frank and Betty McLellan. At the time, the farm was being worked by three generations of…

School shootings are the most tragic aspect of contemporary American life. Media accounts invariably focus on the motive, as if the shooting could be rationalized or made understandable. I regard this misguided and cowardly.

While I believe it's a step forward to automatically admit high-performing Wisconsin high school students to the Universities of Wisconsin, I am dismayed as a former student services professional that grade point average became the sole criterion. While GPA is…

I used to sing a ditty to my daughter: “Love is something if you give it away, you’ll end up having more. It’s just like a magic penny. Hold it tight, and you won’t get many. Lend it, spend it,…

As a mother of four daughters who graduated from Madison West High School several generations ago, I feel affection for that school. This affection is now heightened by my deep pride in the approximately 300 students who walked to the…

President-elect Donald Trump has made it quite apparent he intends to go after those he considers "enemies" who took part in the various indictments and criminal convictions against him over the past few years.