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First elected in 2014, Considine focused especially on agriculture in the Legislature. He said he was also a champion for hemp farming in Wisconsin.

Who’s overachieved? Who’s underachieved? BadgerExtra columnist Jim Polzin takes a closer look at each team heading into the second half of conference play.

"What is prison going to do? It's going to keep you alive," a judge told Derrick Hawkins.

Back in April of 1993, this Cooks’ Exchange column began with a picture of me, Catherine Tripalin Murray, smiling while holding a cookbook from my collection of 300 to 400 cookbooks, focused on long lost recipes.

Here are things to know and how to tune into the Badgers' Big Ten return trip to Nebraska.

Later this year, Metro Transit will dramatically change how riders pay fares, switching over to "Fast Fare Cards."

Here are seven standout forwards from area high school girls teams this winter.

Dental therapists, mid-level providers between dentists and hygienists, are allowed under a bill Gov. Tony Evers plans to sign Wednesday.

Republicans have been demanding beefed up border security for years while desperate migrants have been overwhelming immigration authorities and entering the country illegally. Now Democrats are prepared to give Republicans much of what they want when it comes to border…

Anthony Gonzalez told investigators he accidentally started the fire in his room above Butch's Bar when he was trying to refill a cigarette lighter.

The Wisconsin men's basketball team topped Nebraska 88-72 at the Kohl Center earlier this month. What we've learned about both programs since that game.

"Our primary concern is safety," Westport administrator Dean Grosskopf said. "We're doing this not to inconvenience anybody but to make sure nobody gets hurt or hurts their cars."

Madison police said they found evidence of shots being fired, but no injuries or property damage.

Young musicians open the doors to the $33 million WYSO Center for Music.

Citing costs, the state Department of Natural Resources has four proposals for the 287-acre property that could do away with the animal exhibits.

Plaintiffs in the case said Friday they did not wish to pursue the constitutional challenge against witness requirements and state law, according to court filings.

The veto puts the fight over the state's next legislative maps in the Wisconsin Supreme Court, with evaluations of the six proposed maps before the court due on Thursday.

A Dane County judge ruled earlier this month that clerks can accept absentee ballots whose envelopes contain partial witness addresses as long as the witnesses' correct addresses are discernable.

Packers coach Matt LaFleur asked to interview two coaches from the Ravens.

Eight inches is "fairly thick" and "about where we feel safe to hold stuff on the ice," Clean Lakes marketing and communications director Adam Sodersten said.