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And two centuries after the sacred combination of spirit , bitters, sugar and water graced its first glass, it remains a memorable elixir.

He told reporters that a project to expand Interstate 90 from Madison to the Illinois border is still a priority.

Wisconsin's largest business group says Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that would give wastewater plants, paper mills and food processors up to 20 years to comply with the state's phosphorus limits.

UNDATED State Assembly Democrat Brett Hulsey promises to ruffle some feathers as he runs for governor.

Today we're not just marking Earth Day. In Wisconsin, we're also celebrating Tax Freedom Day.

Wisconsin hospitals' newborn screening performance in March: Wisconsin hospitals have significantly improved how quickly they send newborn screening samples to the state lab for testing, in response to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation.

The former supervisor of the Wisconsin Department of Justice's Milwaukee office allowed nearly four dozen Internet child pornography cases to languish for months, agency officials said in his termination letter.

At least 43 tips about suspected child pornography were held for longer than four months before being investigated, including some that took years and some that were never investigated, according to an internal Wisconsin Department of Justice letter obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

While it is true that most tornadoes in our state and within Northeast Wisconsin tend to be weak, we're not immune from nature's strongest tornadoes.

Superior could be leaving the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference as early as the 2015-16 academic year.

The gracefulness and beauty of bats in flight, dancing over a summer meadow, pond or forest clearing, is an amazing experience.

Employment in Governor Walker's Wisconsin, as in Governor Brownback's Kansas, has lagged behind that of the United States .

Wisconsin health officials are ready to begin expanding the Family Care program that provides in-home care to seven additional counties, but it could take as long as three years to get things ramped up.

University health officials are warning students about a rise in confirmed cases of mumps at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Gov. Scott Walker was testing an idea last week - that the state may have until the end of 2015 to meet his pledge that Wisconsin companies add 250,000 private-sector jobs.

"Responding to Chippewa tribal declarations, the DNR is obligated to establish a one-walleye daily bag limit for anglers on 173 lakes in northern Wisconsin to ensure a vibrant long-term walleye fishery.

The Medical College of Wisconsin's Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin endowment awarded $158,000 over two years to the Proactive Outreach for the Health of Sexually Exploited Youth project through the Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program .

A couple in Milwaukee went straight to Wisconsin's Supreme Court last week to file a petition that would annul the state's current ban on same-sex marriage.

Last year, I wrote a cover story for Wisconsin Interest magazine where I suggested it was time for conservatives to "confront the crackpots."

Linguists aren't often called upon to solve crimes, but when a child was abducted in Illinois more than a decade ago, a handwritten ransom note was all police had to go on.