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Brooke Ferrell, a junior from Edgerton, is alone in first place after firing a season-best 7-under-par 65 in the first round at the Big Ten Conference Championship on Friday in Newburgh, Indiana.

I think I know why the U.S. Senate doesn't want to vote on the next Supreme Court justice. A third of the sitting senators face re-election, including Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh.

It was no surprise to read Gov. Scott Walker's administration has managed to take away food stamps from more than 41,000 state residents.

The State Journal recently covered the growing popularity of pickleball. I first heard of pickleball from one of my tennis friends about a year ago who spends his winters in Florida.

Sunday is World Day for Animals in Laboratories. It was started nearly 40 years ago to raise awareness of the millions of animals who live their lives being subjected to harmful, flawed and costly experimentation.

Chronic disease deserves more attention this election.

We hear a lot about "New York values" in the media these days.

Steve Case says startup activity should stay strong in the nation's heartland.

Contracts for women's hockey coach Mark Johnson, wrestling coach Barry Davis and men's and women's swimming and diving coach Whitney Hite were extended on Friday.

Investigators looking into an April 8 incident used 44 minutes of surveillance video to track the alleged victim's movement from a Downtown bar to a location where she was found by police and found no evidence an assault took place.

The Tenney Locks opening will be delayed three weeks until May 20 because an electrical sensor has worn out and can't be immediately replaced.

For weeks, attention on House Speaker Paul Ryan has focused on 2016 and the prospect the Wisconsin congressman might become the beneficiary of a deadlocked Republican National Convention seeking an alternative to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. Ryan has now…

LAKE MILLS - John Gerard Schoofs died peacefully on Wednesday, April 20, 2016, at Mayo Hospital in Eau Claire.

MADISON - LeRoy F. "HOOT" Holzwarth, age 86, of Madison, passed away on Wednesday, April 20, 2016, at UW Hospital. He was born on Aug. 28, 1929, in Madison, the son of Roy and Jeanette Holzwarth. LeRoy married Elizabeth Haas…

Superintendent Jennifer Cheatham's recommendation for the 2016-17 school year now goes to the School Board.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that 94 million people in the U.S. over the age of 16 don’t have jobs and are not actively seeking employment.

This was not the way Greg Kazmierski and Cathy Stepp wanted the “new era” to begin. They gambled that none of the 72 CDACs would actually vote for an antlerless-only season.

Students should be able to loop in and out of college as needed, with more online and hybrid classes

It might be a good idea to cover sensitive plants Friday night in the Madison area.

One of the pieces of graffiti by a student protesting the climate of racism at UW didn't seem "anti-racist."