Wisconsin State Journal Local News

Wild black raspberries, a.k.a. blackcaps, are ahead of schedule phenologically if one measures a Fourth of July pie as the marker.

The Dane County narcotics task force investigating heroin dealing in the area arrested three men Monday afternoon after pulling their car over on Madison's North Side.

An Oregon man stopped for speeding and following too closely on Monday was arrested for his alleged fourth drunken driving offense.

A combination of hot weather and thunderstorms helped crops in Wisconsin last week, with growers reporting crops to be in good or excellent condition.

“The reputation on Tour is very good for Wisconsin golf." - Steve Stricker

Things have changed, both with the California brewer and in Wisconsin's market, since it pulled back in late 2010.

A driver was flown to a Milwaukee hospital Monday afternoon after crashing into a bridge pillar and suffering life-threatening injuries in Dodge County.

These bastions of exclusivity are of little use to anyone but the people who live there.

Huge racial gaps continue to exist in the data that form the backbone of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Kids Count report.

A group of high school students in Price County believed they could make a difference and could find out what the optimal habitat is and how they could help to transform their school forest into that ideal ecosystem. At least…

Stating the obvious, poison ivy grows as an herb, a vine and a shrub, and all growth forms have trifoliate (groups of three leaflets) leaves. Remember the mnemonic, leaflets three, let it be?

For the first two months of the season, Jimmy Nelson looked every bit the part of an ace-in-training for the Milwaukee Brewers.

The league accuses Johnson of "stubbornly refusing to accept the settled science regarding humans’ role in the warming of our planet."

Two juveniles were fighting when one stabbed the other in the back, resulting in non-life threatening injuries, police said.

The Welcome Home Veterans Initiative began Monday and will help homeless veterans pay for their first month's rent, security deposits and utility bills.

It wasn’t a perfect day, Alex Duff’s final day running track and field for Oregon High School.

Based on first impressions, University Ridge is Wes Short’s kind of golf course.

I am supporting Hillary Clinton.

When it comes to our energy future, Congress could take a few pointers from the city of Madison.

The recent series of articles on homelessness and landlord/tenant problems published in the Wisconsin State Journal is journalism at its best.