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UnityPoint said high costs, including labor and rising drug prices, make the belt-tightening necessary.

The Iowa transfer, who was named to the All-Big Ten freshman team this season, committed to the Hawkeyes as a top-25 high school prospect. She now joins the Badgers.

Revenue and expenses are expected to exceed $200 million for the first time in 2026-27 under the budget plan Wisconsin unveiled Wednesday.

Gerardo Varga Soto, 30, of Beloit, died at a hospital after being injured in an explosion at NaturPak, 100 Innovation Drive, on Feb. 11, the Rock County Medical Examiner’s Department said Wednesday.

Kadidia Toure, the 2025-26 NEC player of the year, averaged a double-double for Long Island. She's set to join the Badgers next season.

The coaches of Badgers winter sports are up for routine one-year extensions at the end of their seasons.

Showers had most recently been parochial vicar at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Madison. After his arrest last year, he was “completely restricted from all exercise of public ministry.”

"There's hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of damage," owner Bob Rubin said of the businesses hit by a storm early Tuesday morning.

Quinn Finley, who led the Badgers in goals the past two seasons, is leaving after signing a two-year, entry-level contract with an NHL team.

The Union Terrace’s opening event this week includes a DJ, fish fry and more.

The conservative groups say Wisconsin’s administrative rule “engages in the one-sided censorship squarely rejected by the United States Supreme Court” in the Colorado case.

The Badgers lost their first player who had eligibility remaining this offseason.

The city took a direct hit from Tuesday evening’s massive hailstorm.

The endorsement from the Wisconsin Education Association Council provides a big boost to the Madison state senator’s bid for the state’s first open race for governor in 16 years.

The 14-year-old boy and two 15-year-old girls were caught with the help of a drone after they abandoned the stolen vehicle, Madison police reported.

The crash happened shortly before 5:30 p.m. Sunday on the eastbound Beltline at Todd Drive, Madison police reported.

No damage estimate is available and the cause of the fire is under investigation.

The severe potential will depend on where the warm front that is in the region sets up, National Weather Service lead meteorologist Kevin Wagner said in a statement.

The Wisconsin River was at 18.9 feet as of Wednesday morning and officials project levels to rise to more than 20 feet. The river reaches flood stage at 17 feet, according to the DNR.