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September is Falls Prevention Month, and Safe Communities Madison-Dane County is hosting a prevention seminar to help people ages 60 and older prevent life-threatening falls.

I have astonishment fatigue.

The middle and high school open under five domes on the village's west side.

Tips for your flowers, trees and shrubs.

PHILADELPHIA — At 26, Thomas Smyth and Daniel Petkevich are millennials whose startup speaks to what they say is a truth about their age group:

We take our neighborhoods for granted, as if they’ve always been there. But someone set out to form each one of them, drawing a line around a coherent space — typically defined by natural or man-made boundaries — and recruiting…

Sometimes it can seem like the only thing Madison's more than 125 neighborhoods have in common is how different they are from each other.

The fact that 15 years after one of the most violent days in American history most of us our more concerned about football, shows that the terrorists didn't win.

Exempting the pot smokers from having to pay for traffic control for their march up State Street might seem like the cool thing to do.

MINNEAPOLIS — Jim Johnson worked decades for Northwestern National Life Insurance, followed by a few years at Allianz Life North America.

OUR VIEW: Every public institution in Wisconsin should plan far ahead — even if the politicians can’t see past their next election

A German photographer set off across Europe in 2005 on a one-year project to capture the facades of historic cathedrals, churches, and cloisters in minute detail. Eleven years later, Markus Brunetti’s project has become an open-ended journey.

The buildings that remain intact are few and far between, but have unique histories that make them worth protecting.

Electronic banking is gaining in popularity — mobile deposits, money transfers, bill pay, among other options. But still vacant lots are filling with new brick-and-mortar branches of banks and credit unions.

Jacksonville's revamped secondary, which includes rookie cornerback Jalen Ramsey and two more newcomers, faces arguably the toughest test possible in the season opener.

The Packers open the season at noon today at Jacksonville.

Aaron Rodgers believes the running back will return to his bruising form.

Football

Try to know the “lay of the land” and how the wind currents blow where you’ll be hunting. When ground hunting, the wind can and usually is your greatest enemy.

Kylie Meinholz and McKenna Warnock delivered the power as the Monona Grove girls volleyball team stormed through five matches to win the DeForest Invitational on Saturday.