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BLAIR / MILWAUKEE - Mary H. Gohs, age 92, of Blair, Wis., formerly of Milwaukee, Wis., passed away Sunday, May 24, 2105, at Grand View Care Center, Blair.

Independent charter schools could be created in Milwaukee and Madison. 

Wisconsin lawmakers cut conservation spending by $88 million. Walker wanted a moratorium on stewardship land buys.

That corruption is at the top ranks of FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, is about as shocking as Capt. Louis Renault’s discovery of gambling at Rick’s cafe in “Casablanca.” That the legal a…

When speaking at the National Deer Alliance “summit meetings” in Louisville in early May, biologist Gary Alt wondered rhetorically if deer would still be on the landscape in two centuries.

The lawmakers restored at least in part two key operating flexibilities that were included in Walker's public authority model.

A commercial lab on Madison's East Side is among 18 labs in nine states that mistakenly received live anthrax spores last week, officials said Friday.

Surface parking lots will be resurfaced at the Dane County Regional Airport starting June 8.

Proposed ban is aimed at the homeless who hang around inside and camp outside City-County Building.

The folk-rock group's Oct. 2 performance will be the first major concert at the 89-year-old soccer stadium. 

Republicans are looking to ban all abortions after 20 weeks. 

Forbes.com lists the Epic co-founder and CEO as No. 1 among women who have started tech companies.

The Legislature's budget writing committee is poised to vote Friday on proposed cuts to the University of Wisconsin System and the Department of Natural Resources. 

The unnamed employee flew from Madison to Minneapolis-St. Paul on Jan. 13 with ethyl alcohol, which is highly flammable, and Epofix hardener, which is a corrosive material.

After nearly 10 years, the Twin Cities brewery with national buzz finally begins selling its beer in the Badger State on Monday.

MINERAL POINT, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin cheesemaker is debuting a 20-year-old cheddar this week that's short in supply and big on price.

MINERAL POINT, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin cheesemaker is debuting a 20-year-old cheddar this week that's short in supply and big on price.

Mike Millisor, who turns 95 next month, reflects on a life flying B-17s in the war, and riding motorcycles later on.

Experts say it costs more to clean up problems in lakes and rivers than it does to use scientific methods of prevention.

The criteria that make a book a “summer read” differ for everyone — some like hot and steamy fiction, some like intellectually stimulating biographies. All literary tastes should find somethin…