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Willy Street Co-op bond drive continues and St. Croix Rods in Park Falls begins offering tours.

The boom that occurred in the 1990s after NAFTA took effect lowered inflation, increased incomes, cut poverty and shrunk unemployment

A $1.7 million project to build the new facility at 103 Lincoln St. broke ground last week, with work expected to wrap up in January.

BERLIN — On a trip to the beach, a German friend recently saw two teenage Afghan refugee boys stare in shock at female bathers in scanty bikinis. She overheard one youth agitatedly ask the German volunteer accompanying him: “Where are…

OUR VIEW: Better dialog, understanding can help deter violence when police interact with public

Authorities are searching for teens reported missing Sunday.

Robert Tabb died Sunday from injuries received in a June 24 crash.

Q What forces are in play when high winds knock down objects?

UW-Madison officials and others question whether students are at any greater risk of crime while abroad than they are on American campuses.

The year-end celebrity death roundups will fail to note, but we have lost the contrary farmer, Gene Logsdon. Fortunately he leaves for us an accumulation of books (including “The Contrary Farmer”) and other writings so highly stacked it would jam…

Genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, refer to any plant or animal that has been genetically modified by humans.

The 2005 Columbus High School graduate, who was a distant 12th in the women’s heptathlon at the U.S. Olympic trials in 2012, broke through Sunday with a second-place finish for a berth in next month’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Ryan Nyhagen went 3-for-4 and drove in the go-ahead run with a broken-bat single in the top of the 10th inning as visiting Stoughton beat Albion 5-4 in a Home Talent League Southeast Section amateur baseball game Sunday afternoon.

Yes, July seems like forever from Sept. 12 when ruffed grouse hunting season opens and even Sept. 1 when ginseng digging begins, but now is the time to be gathering.

A crowd of more than 200 Black Lives Matter protesters marched down State Street in Madison Sunday.

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Mitchell Kilkenny allowed six hits in seven scoreless innings and the Madison Mallards beat the Kalamazoo Growlers 6-0 in a Northwoods League amateur baseball game Sunday.

When the Women’s Western Golf Association 90th Junior Championship tees off Monday at Blackhawk Country Club in Shorewood Hills, Loren Skibba will already have a leg up on her competition.

Julie Mikaelsen, Dominique Thompson and Deme Morales spent much of the past year playing professionally in Denmark and trying to instill the Badgers’ approach to the sport.

Overhaul of civil service rules cuts from five to three the number of days a worker can fail to show up without notifying a boss.