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LINCOLN, Neb. — Coaches around the Big Ten Conference are scratching their heads trying to come up with ways to slow down senior center Frank Kaminsky and the University of Wisconsin men’s bas…

This is the time of year when University of Wisconsin Athletic Department officials are in full number-crunching mode.

In Big Ten play, Nebraska is 5-1 at home and 0-5 on the road. The Cornhuskers are shooting 46.8 percent at home and 36.9 percent on the road in conference play.

Michelle Kienow is a six-time letterwinner competing in basketball, volleyball and track and field and has compiled a 4.064 GPA. A member of Home Economics Related Occupations (HERO) Club, Fut…

Ben Kussow is a six-time letterwinner competing in football, basketball, baseball and track and field and has compiled a 3.4 GPA. His hobbies are playing sports and lifting weights and his vol…

Gabby Curtis and the University of Wisconsin women’s golf team continued its hot start to the spring season, posting a program-best 571 after 36 holes at the UCF Challenge.

Senior center Vic Martinelli scored 14 points Monday night to help the Milton boys basketball team earn its first Badger South Conference victory of the season, a 53-52 decision over visiting …

Senior Becca Albrecht scored 16 points to lead a trio of double-figure scorers that carried the Deerfield girls basketball team to a 44-31 victory over visiting Horicon in Trailways South Conf…

MILWAUKEE — Maybe there is such a thing as home-court advantage this season for the Milwaukee Bucks.

The Plan Commission on Monday recommended 5-3 a proposal from North Central Group to build a Mariott AC hotel featuring a lounge, restaurant and other public space at the corner of East Washin…

Soglin and his four challengers, Ald. Scott Resnick, former Ald. Bridge Maniaci, former Dane County Sup. Richard Brown and activist Christopher Daly gathered for a roughly two-hour forum at th…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A 33-year-old woman who witnesses say stood motionless while her young daughter was struck and killed on a Madison street has been sentenced to more than two years in prison.

The biggest single financial contribution is Ald. Scott Resnick's $50,000 loan to his own campaign.

The state argues the nearly $1.25 million sought by a legal team headed by the ACLU excessive and based on "stratospheric" hourly rates.

Matt Munns of Madison West improves on his state-best mark in diving.

Born in 1932, raised and educated in Wisconsin with little or nothing during a major depression, I understand frugality. But, since I am retired on an untouchable state pension and social secu…

Because of the governor's recent actions, UW will cease to be one of the great research universities and change its mission.

As a military retiree, I was brought up on the idea that it is not the system that corrupts, but it is the people in the system that corrupt. Gov. Scott Walker's budget again proves the point.

After reading Sunday's article “Legislator plans 'ag-gag' bill,” I must speak up and let the public know what a dangerous piece of legislation this is.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the worst trade deal you've ever heard of. It's referred to as "NAFTA on steroids." This is a bad deal for every American.