Wisconsin State Journal Local News

Say farewell this season to American Players Theatre's aging stage and cramped rehearsal space.

Looks like conservative Republicanism might be of little help to conservative Republicans trying to pay for state roads.

Donskoi's goal 12:18 into overtime ended the first Stanley Cup Final game ever in San Jose and helped the Sharks bounce back from two straight road losses to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 in Game 3 on Saturday night.

WISCONSIN RAPIDS — The Madison Mallards aren’t slowing down.

Rachel Peaslee scored the game-winning goal in the 48th minute to give the visiting Madison West girls soccer team a 2-1 win over Middleton in a WIAA Division 1 regional final Saturday afternoon.

The Cuba City girls repeat in Division 3.

With their semifinal matchup confirmed Friday afternoon, Connor Maloney said he and teammate Thomas Thelen were looking forward to seeing what they could do against an unfamiliar opponent.

Notable performances from the final day in La Crosse.

WEST WINDSOR, N.J. — The University of Wisconsin will send seven men’s and women’s boats into their respective grand final races today at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships on Lake Mercer.

Madison La Follette's Finn Gessner claims the boys 3,200 crown

As someone who grew up in Wisconsin in the 1960s, I’ve always considered myself lucky.

The University of Wisconsin’s new apparel contract with Under Armour — worth as much as $96 million over the next 10 years — might not even be the largest form of revenue increase heading the athletic department’s way.

Andrew Mlotek and Calvin Vang of UW-Whitewater finished fourth Saturday at the Carhartt Bassmaster College Series Midwestern regional on Clinton Lake.

Milwaukee scores three runs over the final two innings while the relievers close the door.

The partial recovery of state forests and waterways from the decimation of logging the old growth pine and oak forests in the 19th century offers a metaphor for new life after civic tragedy.

The kerfuffle over who should use what school bathroom can be solved with what my father called "a reductio ad absurdum," or for those who didn't study Latin: "a reduction to an absurdity."

I am so disappointed in House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, after hearing he endorsed Donald Trump for president.

Regarding Gov. Scott Walker’s May 29 column, "We didn't eliminate UW tenure," there seems to be two main issues.

I strongly resent Phil Hands' cartoon in the May 29 State Journal disparaging the Department of Veterans Affairs. Why discredit the entire system because of a few?

A May 28 letter to the editor contended that “many people with excellent morals do not call themselves Christians.”