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Hughes said she is “the only candidate with significant private sector experience and experience in Wisconsin's top industries, including dairy, agriculture and manufacturing.”

3,000 freshly fluffed pageant pooches from more than 200 breeds are competing in 35 rings at the Alliant Energy Center this week for the American Kennel Club’s Renaissance Cluster of Dog Shows. On Sunday, one will emerge as top dog.

The judge said it’s too easy in Wisconsin to see drunken driving as less of a crime. But “this is a homicide,” he said.

Before it became Madison’s first public park, the space that is now Orton Park on the Near East Side served a very different purpose.

“I've never seen a sandhill crane water ski,” said one Democratic opponent who opposed combining the measures.

The crash happened about 12:15 a.m. on Settlement Road near Settlement Lane in the town of Cassville, the Grant County Sheriff's Office said.

A coming change to a Wisconsin long-term care program is raising concerns among enrolled people with disabilities, who worry it will make it harder to hire and pay their care workers.

Singer-songwriter Lee Murdock released a song in 2014 that asked the question: “What about the water?” The song is about the pollution in Lake Erie in the 1960s and ’70s. At that time, headlines that Erie was dying helped energize…

The Madison-based utility company said its fourth-quarter earnings totaled $142 million, or $0.55 per share, on revenue of $1,06 billion.

Through noon Friday, there is a winter storm warning for Sauk and Iowa counties, and a winter weather advisory for Dane, Green, Lafayette, Columbia, Marquette, and Green Lake counties.

A pair of pool records and more fast times in the pool highlighted last week's boys sports action. Vote for the most impressive performance.

The Crusaders senior standout stays busy outside of the pool but feels the water is where he best represents his school. Get to know Madison Edgewood standout Jack Prahl.

The Overture Center is bringing back its Fringe Festival, with some additions.

The Foxie Dippers women’s group meets every Sunday at the Yahara River to take a cold plunge — for their health, for the challenge, for the camaraderie.

Badgers forward Marianne Picard thought she suffered a third torn ACL. When it was "only" a partial MCL tear, she aimed to finish her final season and returned in style.

Green Bay did not see much production from it's free agent signings from last season, leaving issues with making improvement in the upcoming free agency.

President Donald Trump, the thin-skinned, narcissistic bully in the White House, called an Olympic freestyle skier Hunter Hess a "loser” because Hess doesn’t think America is the paradise Trump proclaims it to be.

In a recent Senate hearing, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, outrageously accused Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison of deploying thousands of trained activists and blamed him for the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of U.S.…

The Badgers ran out of time to execute a comeback after slow first half against the Trojans.