Baraboo News

Americans observe their Independence Day on July fourth. People across the country celebrate in many different ways.

A DNR official says the animal shot near La Crosse, Wis., was not the same one that recently roamed across much of the tri-state area.

Two patriotic-themed circus wagons from the Circus World Museum in Baraboo will be on display in front of the state Capitol Wednesday.

This family owned and operated chain of retail outlets remains competitive by giving customers what they want: good prices with old-fashioned value.

Tom Every has a sculpture in his scrap metal art park south of Baraboo titled "Overkill," which shows a bomb shooting down a smokestack to kill two mosquitoes.

I've always been interested in trains. When I was growing up in Cincinnati, my family lived two blocks from the circus grounds and from the railroad tracks.

Local resident Tim Deppe helps police officers shepherd an American black bear away from residents after it wandered into the Blackhawk mobile home park Monday afternoon.

With temperatures soaring into the high 90s in Wisconsin, buckling pavement on highways caused work for repair crews and delays for motorists.

The same pair of whooping cranes that produced the only chick to survive in a newly established flock of the endangered birds has done it again.

For the second time in little over a year, a Columbia County inmate briefly escaped while being moved by deputies, the Sheriff's Office said.

The wagons will be brought on flatbed trucks from the Circus World Museum in Baraboo.

The leap to carbon-neutral design requires a shift in mindset on the part of design professionals, says Terri Meyer Boake, associate director of the school of architecture at the University of Waterloo.

There is more than one major Wisconsin-made movie directed by a onetime Madisonian resident that is premiering in June.

A University Square grocery store could open in October, said Jeff Maurer, former president of Pierce's Supermarkets of Baraboo.

A pair of whooping cranes have hatched a chick in the wild in central Wisconsin, although it took some help from humans to get it done.

2. What part of the tiger painted on the side of the Arthur Bros. Ticket Wagon is not accurate for a real tiger? The painted tiger has five claws; real tigers only have four.

It's a different mood in Sauk County today...compared to one year ago. Last June 9th...the 264-acre Lake Delton breached it's banks...and emptied...due to massive flooding.

Not only is the circus coming to town, but it'll be here all summer. For free. Of course, a summerlong circus season is nothing new in Baraboo, home of Circus World Museum's daily big top shows.

The museum will soon do a partial restoration of the National Landmark Ringling Bros.

How beautiful is this land of green leaves and water we call Wisconsin! Its mosaic of great pinewoods and rolling prairies incorporate a constantly changing variation in topography that never ceases to amaze me.