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Badgers athletic director Chris McIntosh spoke about the shifts he sees in the football program's approach to the offseason and why he's confident 2026 will be better on the field.

The Badgers and the Buckeyes each won a game in their WCHA series at LaBahn Arena. Here's what it meant to national rankings voters.

A pair of one-goal victories against last-place Notre Dame kept the Badgers where they started the week in the national rankings.

The black-out license plate has brought in nearly $380,000 in revenue its first month, and a retro yellow plate has brought in just over $48,000.

Third baseman Caleb Durbin is heading to the Boston Red Sox in a six-player trade with the Milwaukee Brewers after finishing third in NL rookie of the year balloting.

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Dave Chancellor, a former track-and-field and girls cross-country coach, has been arrested on tentative charges of stalking and fourth-degree sexual assault, Mount Horeb police said.

Emily Kuhn alleges that after her State of the City address on March 27 at a Middleton bar, Mark Opitz groped her and tried to unzip her pants.

The contest, the third in four years for the high court, carries less drama than the state’s previous two judicial elections in that the outcome of the race won’t affect the balance of the court.

Madison and former Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl had argued the city cannot be sued over the error because absentee voting is a privilege and not a constitutional right.

The driver crashed his pickup truck into Nutzy Mutz & Crazy Catz, 1709 S. Park St., about 9:10 a.m. Monday, according to the Madison police and fire departments.

The forecast made on Groundhog Day is an example of a folklore weather forecast. Although memorable, the folklore forecasts are of uneven quality.

Conor McKenzie was thrown from the passenger seat of the SUV and killed when the SUV driver and another man started chasing each other.

St. Maurice accepted Jahns’ explanation of the problem and admitted to his error, but wondered why it took so long for WE to identify and help him fix it.

Cory Kromray also was ordered to pay $828,266.71 in restitution to his victims.

The suspect, a 28-year-old Madison man, was injured scaling a fence while fleeing his disabled vehicle, taken to a local hospital for medical treatment, then jailed.

The event at Monona Terrace is scheduled to begin March 3 with more than 3,300 entries from around the world.

The diversity of the state’s emerging and mature medical technology firms offers some economic insulation from a blend of factors, global and local, that point to challenges down the road.

The proposal from We Energies, a subsidiary of WEC Energy Group, calls for a 672-acre campus in Port Washington that would open at roughly 1.3 gigawatts of energy demand in 2027.

Flu cases are at a moderate level in Madison and Dane County, and it is unclear if respiratory illness season has peaked yet.