Perhaps no other Great Lakes shipwreck has as much notoriety as the ill-fated SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a 729-foot iron ore carrier that sunk to the bottom of Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, during a fierce November gale. All 29 crew members died.
- Teryl Franklin
Perhaps no other Great Lakes shipwreck has as much notoriety as the ill-fated SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a 729-foot iron ore carrier that sunk to the bottom of Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, during a fierce November gale. All 29 crew members died.
- State Journal staff
Memorable images from his coaching, athletic director stretches at Wisconsin.
- Teryl Franklin
Bucky Badger wasn't always Bucky. And he wasn't always huggable, either. Scroll on for a history in photographs of one of the best mascots in college athletics.
- Teryl Franklin
When the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, was ratified in 1920, Wisconsin played a starring role in the effort: it was the first state to ratify the measure on June 10, 1919. The last of the required 36 states ratified it on Aug. 18, 1920.
- Teryl Franklin
When the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, was ratified in 1920, Wisconsin played a starring role in the effort: it was the first state to ratify the measure on June 10, 1919. The last of the required 36 states ratified it on Aug. 18, 1920.
- Teryl Franklin
When the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, was ratified in 1920, Wisconsin played a starring role in the effort: it was the first state to ratify the measure on June 10, 1919. The last of the required 36 states ratified it on Aug. 18, 1920.
The Wisconsin state Capitol has been around for more than 100 years. But this remarkable edifice holds a lot of secrets.
The Wisconsin state Capitol has been around for more than 100 years. But this remarkable edifice holds a lot of secrets.
The Wisconsin state Capitol has been around for more than 100 years. But this remarkable edifice holds a lot of secrets.
The winter of 2007-08 was Madison's snowiest on record, with Mother Nature dumping a cumulative 101.4 inches of snow in the city. (For comparison, the previous record was 76.1 inches in the winter of 1978-79.) The record snowfall included a lot of middling storms that added up over time, as …
Experts warn that waiting for dangerous weather to start planning how to safely ride out a storm or tornado may be too late. Here’s what you should know to get started:
The Great Ice Storm of March 1976 knocked television stations off the air, caused Madison's reservoirs to dry up and left more than 600,000 Wisconsin residents without power for days.
Scott English, president of the Pritzker Military Museum and Library in Kenosha, welcomed two members of the Consulate General of Canada in Chicago: Jillian Senkiw, Consul for Foreign Policy and Diplomacy Services, and recently appointed Consul General Claire Kennedy.
Read through the obituaries published today in Lake Geneva Regional News.
Imani Hodges and her family moved into her new two-story home — which she helped to build with Habitat for Humanity — on 50th Street in Kenosha on Nov. 4.
Perhaps no other Great Lakes shipwreck has as much notoriety as the ill-fated SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a 729-foot iron ore carrier that sunk to the bottom of Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, during a fierce November gale. All 29 crew members died.
Perhaps no other Great Lakes shipwreck has as much notoriety as the ill-fated SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a 729-foot iron ore carrier that sunk to the bottom of Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, during a fierce November gale. All 29 crew members died.
Memorable images from his coaching, athletic director stretches at Wisconsin.
Bucky Badger wasn't always Bucky. And he wasn't always huggable, either. Scroll on for a history in photographs of one of the best mascots in college athletics.
Seven Senate Democrats sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday asking it to investigate whether large corporations that received billions of dollars in tariff refunds violated federal law by not passing them on to their customers.
Arrests for low-level offenses, including vagrancy and drug possession, increased nationwide in 2025, even as violent crime continued to decline, according to a new analysis of federal data.
Families need care they can afford, obtain and actually use during their working hours. Today, parents across the country say that's hard to find.
The final choices for the new class of astronauts are expected to be announced in late 2027. The application is open now and runs through Dec. 3.

