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Madison already has many choirs -- student ones, church ones, community ones -- so one would think that it does not desperately need another. But the Madison Choral Project really is something new and different, as revealed in its inaugural concert at Luther Memorial Church on Saturday evening.

Supplier of parts for commercial vehicles plans to build or buy factories in China, Brazil and the U.S. Southwest in the next few years.

John Mellencamp may be my favorite songwriter and performer to come to prominence in the 1980s. Along with much popular success over the years since his 1982 blockbuster album American Fool, he's gradually also come to enjoy quite a bit of positive critical regard. But I'd still argue his body of work as a whole is underrated by many.

In just a few days, Gov. Scott Walker will head to the heart of Iowa — where the 2016 presidential race will likely begin — and take center stage before that key state’s Republican party faithful.

Ken Witte, who died last month, ran a tight ship, and his effort to use red-vested volunteers to collect excess produce at the Dane County Farmers' Market lives on.

When I saw B.B. King a couple decades ago, he and his band rolled into Madison as an all-conquering blues machine. King's electric guitar was piercing, his singing passionate. He paced the concert like a master showman, with the goal of driving the crowd mad. He more than lived up to his legend as one of the greatest blues artists of all time.

There is no full marathon on Memorial Day weekend this year in Madison — Mother Nature has seen to that. Temperatures reaching into the 90s forced the cancellation of last year’s Madison Marat…

UW-Madison researchers are studying everything from stress and anxiety to the part of the brain where consciousness lives.

State attorneys successfully quashed testimony on issues key to Vernon Hershberger's defense, including the quality of his raw milk.

Tips for your flowers, trees and shrubs.

For the first selection, the State Journal Book Club has chosen "Learning to Stay" by Madison author Erin Celello.

Erin Celello's "Learning to Stay" is the first pick of the new State Journal Book Club.

The CEO and 31-year employee of Hy-Vee says Iowa company plans further expansion in Wisconsin beyond Madison.

Aisha Khan, a seventh-grader at Spring Harbor Middle School, will represent Wisconsin at the 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee next week in Washington, D.C.

The governor’s economic development agency has stumbled from one embarrassment to another.

There are really only two questions worth asking about the University of Wisconsin System's surplus.

You have to applaud the University of Wisconsin for taking the non-conference scheduling ball and running with it now that the college football landscape has finally changed.

The county is among the state's largest for tourism

Tour of tiny homes

Putting to rest one of the main nuisances in garbage collection, Madison is set to begin recycling the 10,000-plus mattresses discarded annually by city residents.