CANCUN, Mexico — Donna Ferguson awoke in the resort city of Cancun before sunrise on a sweltering Saturday in July.
CANCUN, Mexico — Donna Ferguson awoke in the resort city of Cancun before sunrise on a sweltering Saturday in July.
New data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, surveying more than 11,000 adults over age 65, found that about one in eight binge drink, up from one in 10 in 2005.
Maybe you haven’t done a do-si-do since high school gym class. But there’s an entire community out there that wants to teach you how to square dance.
Three dozen special interest groups received close to $3.2 million from Wisconsin contributors in the first six months of 2019.
An old detail kept elbowing me, tugging at my sleeve like an annoying little kid, when President Donald Trump said he thought it might be a good idea to buy Greenland.
On Wednesday, America and all the world watched as yet another soap-operatic reality TV meltdown played out on our video screens.
The state wine excise taxes in Wisconsin ranked 43rd highest, or seventh lowest, in the nation, according to a new analysis from the Tax Foundation based on January 2019 data.
Delegates to next year’s Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee will stay at hotels as far south as O’Hare International Airport, but not in Kenosha County — a decision that has some wondering why Kenosha seems to have been overlooked.
Delegates will be staying as far away as an 80-minute drive south near Chicago, but none will be staying 80 minutes west in Madison.
Upperclassmen living in one of Edgewood College's three apartment buildings have the opportunity to bring their critter to campus.
Wisconsin's attorney general is excited to see U.S. phone companies jumping on-board with a new plan to stop robocalls.
On this week's "Center Stage" political podcast, Milfred and Hands lament Madison's utopian disdain for 78 lower-cost apartments in the lower part of a Downtown tower a block off the Capitol Square. The Madison City Council is confusing affordable housing with high-rise penthouses.
The final 10% is largely made up of 18- to 35-year-old males and primarily pickup truck drivers.
The case attracted unprecedented interest, with more than 50 groups and individuals participating in the evaluation process, which drew hundreds of public comments, almost all of them opposed to the line.
More than 90 percent of school kids in Wisconsin get their shots before heading back to school each year. But one lawmaker is worried about the kids who don't.
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UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank must consider the ramifications for two groups who often face skepticism: African-Americans who are disproportionately impacted by the criminal justice system and women who believe they are victims of sexual assault.
As part of a National Association of Convenience Stores outreach program, freshman Congressman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., worked behind the count at Lou Perrine’s Gas & Grocery, 5145 Sheridan Road, for a short time Wednesday.
The state beer excise taxes in Wisconsin ranked 48th highest in the nation, according to a new analysis from the Tax Foundation based on January 2019 data.
There are as many people who are happy to see a new electric transmission line that'll stretch from near Madison, Wisconsin, to near Dubuque, Iowa, as there are folks who are angry about it.
Wisconsin's governor wants the state's power companies to be 100-percent green in the next 30 years. But there are a number of people who say that's either unrealistic or too expensive to happen.
"I am not planning on endorsing," Baldwin said. "I want to offer up my insights."
The combined state and average local sales taxes in Wisconsin ranked 43rd highest in the nation, according to a new analysis from the Tax Foundation based on July 2019 data.
Worry about measles fades over the summer. Kids scatter to parks and beaches instead of congregating in classrooms and cafeterias, where a cough or sneeze can leave the virus hanging in the air for up to two hours. By late August, with school back in session or nearly so, the scarring pox po…
If some Wisconsin species are federally listed as threatened in the future, they might see weaker protections.
Without too much effort, you can find hints of Wisconsin throughout the city and beyond.
It’s beginning to feel like 1980s news tape showing America’s despotic enemies running amok.
America has just surpassed a grim milestone, with more than 250 mass shootings blasting the nation in only 216 days, at a rate of more than one act of gun carnage per day in 2019.
CHICAGO (AP) — The political and economic stars have aligned for the development of a suburban Chicago airport, according to a transportation expert.
In the past couple of months, the flaws in the Federal Reserve’s management of the economy have become hard to ignore. The central bank’s current way of doing things is increasingly self-defeating.
They were a generation getting back to the garden, the dirt and homegrown America. Their music blended soul, gospel, folk, country and rock. They would go on to start the health craze of the 1970s organic movement, and would later see the commercialization of the rock star, a capitalistic pa…
Fifty years ago, when I was 19, I got the assignment from the trade magazine Billboard to cover the Woodstock Festival because none of the older writers wanted to go. My review the following week rhapsodically began, “About 400,000 rock fans gave peace a chance Aug. 15-18, and it worked.”
Advocates of clean energy say that the Cardinal-Hickory Creek power line would alleviate congestion that is limiting the output of existing wind farms and enable the development of more such farms in states to the west, which have some of the best wind resources in the country.
Wisconsin taxpayers will pay a liberal group's attorneys $200,000 because Republican lawmakers blocked them on Twitter.
But he again criticized Democrat Jimmy Anderson's request for more accessibility.
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Factoring out prank calls and misdials, UWPD tallied three legitimate calls in 2018. None was an emergency.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A legislative committee is set to consider a bill that would require the state Department of Natural Resources to sell insect repellent in state parks and forests.
Wisconsin's Dairy Business Association argues that proposed changes to state rules for new or expanding livestock farms are 'largely unworkable and unfair.'
Attorney General Josh Kaul signed onto the petition for review of the Trump administration’s Affordable Clean Energy plan, which eased carbon emission limits that were proposed — but never implemented — under the Clean Power Plan.
Before hitting a record 932 opioid deaths in 2017, the state had 850 opioid deaths in 2016 and 613 in 2015.
The suit filed Wednesday asks a federal appeals court to block the Trump Administration’s Affordable Clean Energy rule easing carbon emission limits on fossil-fuel power plants.
The tale of three sixth-graders f-bombing their way through a series of adolescence-threatening adventures en route to a nerve-wracking kissing party, “Good Boys” (boring title) is located at the intersection of “Superbad” and “Baby’s Day Out.”
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — Police say a man found passed out behind the wheel at an Eau Claire gas station is facing his 12th drunken driving charge.
The Wisconsin State Fair drew 1,130,575 people for the 11-day event in West Allis, setting setting a modern-day attendance mark.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican legislators are re-introducing a bill that would punish students who interfere with campus speeches and presentations with suspension and expulsion.
Evers underscored the grave impact of the administration's trade policy on Wisconsin's $88 billion agricultural sector.
Dr. Mark Thompson, chief medical officer at St. Louis-based SSM Health, has been named president of medical groups for SSM Health's Wisconsin region, SSM Health said Monday.
The “Angry Birds” movies are the textbook definition of chaotic energy. The second film in the franchise, “The Angry Birds Movie 2” (grammar nerds will chafe at this awkward phrasing), directed by Thurop Van Orman and written by Peter Ackerman, Eyal Podell and Jonathan E. Stewart, is somehow…
The world’s most popular spirit has arrived in the U.S., and it’s not what you might expect. Baijiu (pronounced BYE-joe), meaning “white spirits” in Mandarin, isn’t whiskey or vodka, but an aromatic Chinese liquor made by fermenting steamed sorghum in mud pits. And new, American-skewed brand…
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2020 presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders says that he will generate the energy and enthusiasm needed to defeat President Trump in 2020.
White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow says President Donald Trump misunderstood a question at the G7 summit where he said he had second thoughts about the China tariffs, saying Trump was actually considering higher tariffs.
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