Things are heating up in Wisconsin. After the second snowiest December on record in the state capital - and with temperatures hovering around 20 degrees Tuesday - the Legislature abolished a statewide ban on heated sidewalks, stairs, entrances and pedestrian walkways. ...more

January 18, 2008

Highways were hazardous for holiday travelers Sunday and thousands of homes and businesses had no electricity in the Midwest as a storm blustered through the region with heavy snow and howling wind. ...more

December 24, 2007

Preston Nicholson's junior football season at Hillsborough High School was only six years ago. ...more

December 22, 2007

The City Council is poised to send a message to residents: We don't want your clucking chickens. ...more

December 14, 2007

Snow and ice plastered a wide area of the Midwest on Saturday, disrupting campaigning by presidential hopefuls, making highways hazardous and closing Des Moines' airport. ...more

December 2, 2007

Senior quarterback Tyler Donovan threw for one touchdown and scrambled for another as Wisconsin held off a fourth-quarter rally to upset No. 13 Michigan 37-21 on Saturday. ...more

November 11, 2007

A shot that robs smokers of the nicotine buzz from cigarettes showed promise in midstage testing and may someday offer a radically new way to kick a dangerous habit. ...more

November 8, 2007

The white cliffs of Dover have welcomed travelers across the English Channel for centuries, but some smaller land shelves that cropped up recently at Apollo Beach Nature Preserve didn't give park managers a warm and fuzzy feeling. ...more

November 7, 2007

The white cliffs of Dover have welcomed travelers across the English Channel for centuries, but some smaller land shelves that cropped up recently at Apollo Beach Nature Preserve didn't give park managers a warm and fuzzy feeling. ...more

November 7, 2007

APOLLO BEACH - An erosion-control project at Apollo Beach Nature Preserve may set the pace for environmentally friendly methods of shoring up shorelines in Florida. ...more

November 6, 2007