A few weeks ago, my wife Sherry and I hiked to the top of Brady’s Bluff in Perrot State Park near Trempealeau on a cool fall afternoon. As we stood atop the bluff some 460 feet above the river, I was struck by the breathtaking vista before us.
Things are a little messy right now as Republicans look for their gubernatorial candidate to take on Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat.
Wisconsin’s Great Lakes communities expect to spend $245 million in five years to protect shorelines as a climate ‘tug of war’ drives extreme shifts in water levels.
After 31 years in the Janesville newsroom, reporter Frank Schultz has retired from The Gazette, he announced in a column this week.
A 1986 UW-Madison journalism graduate, Schultz got his start in newspapers as a reporter at The Boscobel Dial. After later working for The Daily Item in Sunbury, Pa., he returned to Wisconsin in 1990 when he joined The Gazette.
Indie Lens Pop-Up will on Wednesday, Nov. 10, offer a free online screening of "Storm Lake," a documentary that offers an inside look at The Storm Lake Times, a family-owned weekly newspaper in northwestern Iowa.
The screening will begin at noon, with a panel discussion to follow via Zoom. Panelists include Eric Lohman, a journalism lecturer at UW-Milwaukee with a focus on the political economy of media, and Tara Jones, a digital reporter for the Sheboygan Sun whose background includes experience working for rural newspapers in her home state of Ohio.
A sale is just the first step. In his latest “Ad-libs” column, John Foust breaks down the advertising sales cycle from sale to delivery to results to feedback.
Last year’s concerns that the COVID-19 pandemic would ravage Milwaukee County finances have been supplanted this year by a dramatically brightened outlook that, at least for the next two or three years, is the strongest the county has seen in decades.
A highly anticipated new report from Wisconsin’s nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau seems to have given ammo to both 2020 election critics and defenders.
After sharing Madison.com with the Wisconsin State Journal for the last 25 years, The Cap Times is launching its own website, the newspaper has announced. Beginning Monday, The Cap Times' digital presence will move to a new home under the URL captimes.com.
Paul Fanlund, editor and publisher of the newspaper, wrote that the new website would highlight The Cap Times' distinctively Madison-centric approach.
Sandra A. "Sandy" Cota, who spent her career as a newspaper reporter in Iowa and Wisconsin, died Friday, Oct. 8. She was 89.
After graduating from Gillett High School in northeastern Wisconsin, she went on to earn her college degree in journalism. Cota started her career in newspapers with the (Dubuque, Iowa) Telegraph Herald, where she worked as a reporter, before moving on to work in the newsrooms of The (Racine) Journal Times and The Milwaukee Journal.
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