Donald Trump confirms on a daily basis that Republicans can be dishonest, dishonorable and, if we’re honest about it, loathsome. But is Trump really the most reprehensible of the political grifters who have taken over the once honorable Republican Party? Sadly, no.

Imagine western Wisconsin without our University of Wisconsin campuses.

Recreational cannabis becomes legal in Illinois in less than three months — on Jan. 1. Let’s lean back and think about what that means.

Thirty years later, history is repeating itself in the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois.

University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban will make $6.5 million to coach the Crimson Tide this season, but with performance incentives that dollar amount could rise.

If anyone has become the conscience of the Republican Party in Wisconsin during Donald Trump’s chaotic and norm-shattering presidency, it’s Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke.

Today we’ll give a shout-out to climate change.

Yet another Wisconsin county — this time Sheboygan — has voted to recommend the end of partisan gerrymandering of legislative and congressional voting districts.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue discovered during his trip to the dairy state Tuesday that many people don’t like having the obvious pointed out to them, especially by a member of the Trump administration.

It certainly seemed as though the Milwaukee Brewers’ season ended Sept. 10, the night Christian Yelich, the reigning National League Most Valuable Player, fouled a pitch off his right kneecap and sustained a season-ending injury — at least as far as the team’s chances of returning to the pla…

Gov. Tony Evers is worried about people being unprepared for retirement — and he should be. So should everyone else, because statistics indicate millions of Americans basically have no savings to tide themselves over in their old age.

In the whistleblower story about President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s president, one important detail has changed.

Military jets are loud when they fly over your home or neighborhood in and around Madison.

The biggest worry for farmers used to be the weather. Now it’s the government, specifically the Trump administration and its supporters in Congress.

There was a time when young people, particularly young men, in southern Illinois could envision their future at an early age.

Wisconsin is whistling past the graveyard when it comes to measles vaccinations.

The number of e-cigarette users, many of them teenagers, stricken by a mysterious and acute lung illness has more than doubled around the country just this month. More than 450 people have been hospitalized with serious respiratory distress and six people have died. Public health officials s…

“I will build a great wall on our southern border, and I’ll have Mexico pay for that wall,” Donald Trump pledged on the campaign trail in 2016.

Early this year, when Republican Mark Harris called for a new election in North Carolina’s disputed 9th Congressional District, top-tier Republicans wanted little to do with taking his place on the ballot. They cited varying reasons such as work and family, but there also was a clear politic…

Here’s a crazy idea to reduce traffic congestion at Janesville schools: Encourage parents to make their kids walk to school.