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My New Year's resolution was to not talk on my phone while driving. Earlier this week, I received a call while driving, so I pulled over near the Capitol to take the call.

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The agency review comes on the heels of a State Journal investigation into a questionable $500,000 loan.

MILWAUKEE — The top-ranked Oregon girls soccer team came to Uihlein Soccer Park with a state championship purpose, and the Panthers weren’t going to let a pregame lockdown sidetrack their miss…

The company objects to spill cleanup insurance a county committee said is needed.

CAMBRIA - Thomas M. "Buckhill" Williams, age 88, of Cambria, died Thursday evening, June 18, 2015, at Our House in Portage, where he resided for the past five months.

MUSCODA - John Arthur Laufenberg, age 96, of Muscoda, died Wednesday, June 17, 2015, at the Golden Living Center, Riverdale. He was born in Highland on Aug. 23, 1918, the son of Edward and Ell…

MOUNT HOREB - Gary H. Pertzborn, age 52, of Blue Mounds Township, Wis., died unexpectedly from a probable farm accident on Thursday, June 18, 2015, at his farm. Funeral arrangements are pendin…

MAGAZINE, Ark. - Sandra K. (Bell) Thornell, age 78, of Magazine, Ark., peacefully entered into glory surrounded by family on Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in Fort Smith, Ark. She was born on Aug. …

VERONA - Kelsey Page, age 19, passed away Friday, June 19, 2015. Arrangements are pending.

Madworks is a program for very early-stage companies.

Also, the Assembly majority leader blames Milwaukee and Scott Walker hedges on his presidential timeline.

Irina Kolenkina, the Russian immigrant charged with stabbing her husband to death last weekend at their rented town of Vienna farmhouse, told police that she was a butcher back in Russia and t…

A Sauk City man was under the influence when he fatally struck a pedestrian in a busy Madison intersection Thursday evening, according to police.

Biologists are finding that when they restore or protect “charismatic” predators they unintentionally create ecosystem problems few considered.

The 22-year-old told authorities he owed one of the men money and believed that is what led them to beat him up.

So many people wanted to be Shrek that there was only one solution: Two Shreks.

Here's how members of Wisconsin's congressional delegation voted on major issues this week. 

Despite his disagreement with a federal law that requires consecutive sentences of at least seven years for brandishing a weapon during a crime, a federal judge on Friday sentenced twin brothe…

State Appeals Court Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg is running for the state Supreme Court.