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A New Glarus man was arrested Thursday after he was found slumped over the wheel of a van that was stopped in traffic on Madison’s Far West Side.

In a recent Quinnipiac poll released, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was the leading choice of Republican voters to be their 2016 presidential nominee. That is quite the surge for Gov. Walker, wh…

A 20 year-old Madison man was arrested Thursday in connection to an armed robbery on the East Side on Feb. 15.

A Janesville man faces a sixth OWI charge after being  arrested Thursday by Janesville police.

An Indiana driver was seriously injured in a suspected drunk-driving crash after hitting six other vehicles over a one-mile stretch through Stoughton on Thursday afternoon.

Madison Fire Department crews responded to a report of a fire in a duplex on the Southeast Side early Friday morning.

From an experimental band to a benefit concert for a student, trombonist Mark Hetzler has a busy week.

The marching begins at Madison’s annual St. Patrick’s Parade at 1:30 p.m. Sunday on Capitol Square, with a U.S. Marine color guard in the lead. Next come floats, bands, candy tossed by the han…

The 19-year-old who was fatally shot by a Madison police officer had been unlike himself, and a friend was the first to call 911. 

Walker has been polling well in the Granite State, which presents a different electorate than Iowa.

The move follows a controversy over a convicted sex offender that has roiled the community and two arson fires.

Chances are even if you don't know his name, you know his voice and his music. 

A new book edited by two Madison women offers tales of synchronicity and happenstance.

We physicians may be on the wrong side of the quit-smoking message when we follow the dictum that quitting means quitting. Cutting down doesn’t do much. New research, however, shows cutting do…

In a sure sign of spring, Canoecopia 2015 and Bike-o-Rama come to the Alliant Energy Center this weekend, with everything for paddlesports and bicyling enthusiasts.

Ever wish the royal family were a little less proper, less stuffy, less, you know, British?

CHICAGO — People often debate the merits of conference tournaments in college men’s basketball, but there is no question where this week’s Big Ten Conference tournament fell on the University …

Ramirez got his first extra-base hit of the spring, a two-run double in the first inning that sent Milwaukee past Colorado 5-3 Thursday.

CHICAGO — Vitto Brown hit the rewind button earlier this week and told a story from last summer.

Looking back on it, Matt Paape made a strong first impression when he debuted with the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team in 2011.