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A chance of rain in Madison on Thursday is the only bump in a forecast calling for great weather through the Fourth of July on Monday.

Caponata, the color, is a dark chocolate with purple undertones. It creates a “lush atmosphere,” according to paint producer Benjamin Moore, when applied to fireplace, base molding or soffit. In other words, it’s intense. Use sparingly.

The state's Manufacturing and Agriculture Tax Credit is expected to cost twice as much as initially projected.

One way or another, Scott Tolzien always ends up in Wisconsin.

One day, Madison Memorial’s Colt Tegtmeier would like to become a professional tennis player.

Speakers said if what Madison officers did last week in their forceful arrest of a resisting Laird at East Towne Mall was legal, the law should change.

Since finishing his UW career in 2008, Butch has played in Tokyo, Dubai, China, Germany, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.

In response to Friday’s letter to the editor “Police actions were over the top,” I would point out the following life principle: If someone resists arrest, bad things are going to follow, regardless of skin color. It was true for…

When I came home on leave from the Army in 1972 , while walking down State Street with my short hair and wearing my field jacket, a punk started screaming at me calling me a baby killer and spit in…

I was an only child, and my father taught me how to shoot a .22 pistol, a 12-gauge shotgun and a .22 rifle. I also was a member of a rifle club in high school. I am a lifelong Republican…

I hope those representatives who were sitting on the floor in the U.S. House found their marbles. I assume they were lost, when I saw them acting like second-graders.

Let’s see if I got this right. The city of Madison assessed the Chamber of Commerce property at $993,400, and a private real estate firm Landretti & Co. appraised it at $1.35 million. Then Dane County makes a deal to…

Not that long ago, back in the stone age, to belong in society you had to follow the rules. The primary rule was that if you were politely asked by someone in authority -- parents, teachers, bosses or police --…

I commend county leaders and the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce for stepping up and working together to find a better location than the Messner site for the proposed day resource center for our homeless.

Many in Britain are looking for ways to undo the vote to exit the European Union or Brexit.

The state's only large, privately-owned water system wants a rate increase. Lawmakers nearly made private ownership easier this year.

DEFOREST - Constance "Connie" (nee Wastart) Price passed away June 24, 2016, after a long battle with Parkinson's Disease. In the end, she was as strong as she had been in life.

MCFARLAND - Kimberly Anne Zeier, age 45, passed away on Wednesday, June 22, 2016, from a tragic accident. She was born on Feb. 2, 1971, in Madison, Wis., the daughter of Jerry and Sandy Collins.

MADISON / WHITEWATER - Dorothy I. Casey, age 95, passed away on Saturday, June 25, 2016, at the Fairhaven Senior Services in Whitewater. She was born on Feb. 8, 1921, in Monroe, the daughter of Charles and Louise (Rhyser) McCarthy.

MADISON - Marvin J. Schaeffer died peacefully in his home on Friday, June 24, 2016, in Madison, Wis., surrounded by his four children. Marvin was born on June 30, 1927, in Pollock, S.D. He was the third child born to…