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If you want to know how profoundly childhood has changed in the last two decades, ask someone over 35 how he or she spent summers.

Just Read It is a regular feature in which the State Journal seeks recommendations from authors, literary enthusiasts and experts, focused on the contributor’s particular genre of expertise.

“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” the classic children’s story by Lewis Carroll, was first published 150 years ago. Two Wisconsin artists, Sarah Aslakson and Elsie Berget, pay tribute to the…

The only tears on that recent Wednesday came from Maggie Gooze, then only after she was asked about her mother’s terminal diagnosis.

Home from a long stretch on the road, the band of Baraboo natives gets set to play their hometown.

Victoria Houston was enjoying a cup of coffee in a small North Woods cafe one winter morning a few years ago when she watched a huge logging truck roll by the window. The thought struck her: I…

Driftless Nature Galley & Gift Shop is now a veteran on upper State Street — and a surprisingly happy place for indulgent grandparents. The store, owned by nature photographer Anne Connor,…

Focus groups are being arranged with customers chosen, at random, by a Washington, D.C., consultant group.

The state budget signed by Gov. Scott Walker last week envisions broad changes to how the University of Wisconsin System is run.

But a former Supreme Court justice says a conservative leader's call to disbar and fire state lawyers is 'shocking and outrageous.'

Gov. Scott Walker understands the danger of anonymous electioneering.

Sara Goldrick-Rab probably isn't the first person in Madison to compare the polarizing Gov. Scott Walker to Adolf Hitler.

The State Journal’s editorial on Friday, “Arena deal improves and deserves support,” stated that “Milwaukee needs the National Basketball Association more than the NBA needs Milwaukee.”

This State Journal editorial ran on July 17, 1875:

If Rip Van Winkle had gone to sleep sometime in the past five decades and awakened today, he would know nothing about the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal. But he would have no trouble following the deb…

Tips for your flowers, trees and shrubs.

Coming in Wisconsin this week:

Fayth Kail was 14 in 1955, when polio stole her ability to walk — and her home.

God instructs voter in winning cartoon caption

WASHINGTON — In South Carolina these days, no one speaks his name.