How To Entertain Kids Over Winter Break
From scrapbooking to taking field trips, try these suggestions when entertaining your kids over their winter break from school.
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Non-traditional gifts work for holidays
One of the most difficult tasks in gift giving can be finding a gift for the person who has everything.
What not to do at your holiday office party.
Even if you work hard, one place you might not want to play too hard is your annual holiday office party.
Fun, creative ways to celebrate Christmas
Are you looking for new ways to celebrate Christmas this year? Take a look at these ideas for your family.
Quick eats for holiday dinners
How do you keep the hungries at bay while you fill stockings?
You know him as Rudolph
Get into the spirit with this quiz about everyone's favorite reindeer!
Searching for the perfect Christmas tree
Theresa Collins and Isaac Lemke are getting ready for the holidays in their first year living together. They're on the hunt for a perfect Christmas tree, and they knew right away it had to be a real one.
Brothers spend first Christmas out of foster care with new family
About 6,000 kids in Wisconsin are still in need of a forever home this Christmas.
Wineke: 'Natural' Christmas trees don't belong in Wisconsin churches
Christmas is over and it might be all too easy to forget one of the worst legislative proposals now active in Wisconsin.
Bill would say Christmas trees in churches, Capitol rotunda not a fire hazard
State and local fire chiefs could not prohibit any community from putting up a natural cut Christmas tree, or calling it a fire hazard, under a bill being circulated at the state Capitol.
Madison Symphony Christmas never a 'Ho-Ho-Hum' affair
Do not adjust your Web browser: This is not a food blog, but really is a review of Friday night's Madison Symphony Christmas.
Generations come together over Christmas tree shopping on Black Friday
A 1-year-old joins parents and grandparents on her first Christmas tree expedition and other stories of local families making Black Friday decidedly green.
40-foot Christmas tree arrives at Capitol
The 2015 Christmas tree to be displayed in the Capitol building was delivered Wednesday morning.
Tips, tricks for surviving 'Hippie Christmas'
Across the isthmus thousands of residents, many of them students, are moving out of their old apartments and into new ones this weekend.
Participants wait to learn if event broke caroling record
Singers have completed an attempt in Frankenmuth to break the Guinness World Record for the most people singing Christmas carols.
Remembering a Christmas spent in hell at the Battle of the Bulge
Veteran: Experience on battlefield taught him family matters most on Christmas
Raymond Ray was born and raised in Wisconsin. When World War II broke out he was drafted into the U.S. Army and as a 19-year-old kid was sent to the front lines of what would become the largest and bloodiest battle of World War II, the Battle of the Bulge.
DOR to Santa: IOU at least $100
According to the state agency, Santa is listed as a claimant for some money through the state's unclaimed property database.
Low gas prices boosting numbers of holiday travelers
Two million Wisconsinites plan to travel this holiday season
Lower gas prices will drive nearly two million Wisconsinites to travel alongside nearly 99 million Americans this holiday season, according to AAA projections.
Baraboo woman chosen to decorate White House
Between the tree, the tinsel and all those stringing lights, holiday decorating can be a daunting task – and for one Baraboo woman, that task took on presidential proportions this season.
Strong winds may cause blowing snow, reduced visibility around Christmas
Projected storm could be during major travel period before, after holiday
The potential for a winter storm during the final few days before Christmas that may affect a large part of the country is slowly increasing.
Blog: Holiday fun at WISC
We basically rule the holidays
Sometimes we like to have fun at WISC behind the scenes. Here's a look at our last holiday shindig, er, I mean... company meeting.
Capitol tree to come from Pelican Lake
Ornaments submitted by students
This year's Wisconsin state Capitol Christmas tree is a 40-foot balsam fir from a Pelican Lake farm.
Janesville taxi company gives free rides for the holidays
In Rock County, one man is using his business to show he's in the holiday spirit.
Review: Christmas with the MSO
Melody Moore, the soprano who sang the title role of Tosca in this fall's Madison Opera production returned to the city to sing Christmas songs.
