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The Madison Memorial boys hockey team stands one victory away from its first WIAA state tournament appearance since 2004.

Sophomore forward McKinley Righter scored a career-best 20 points, including eight in the first quarter, and host New Glarus pulled away from Darlington 49-40 in a WIAA Division 4 girls basket…

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Emily Kieck scores a game-high 15 points to lead the Thunderbirds.

Council members approved 13-7 North Central Group's plan for a 164-room Mariott AC hotel just off the Capitol Square at the corner of East Washington Avenue and North Webster Street.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team hit a pothole on the road to a Big Ten Conference title.

The Dane County Board's Public Protection Committee and the Judiciary and Health and Human Needs Committee held a joint public hearing Tuesday, which was heavily attended by members of the You…

Dr. Robert W. Huntington III, a forensic pathologist whose wit, theatricality and lack of pretension brought life to the grimmest of subjects, died Sunday at his home near Mazomanie, where he …

Building trades unions won't be able to postpone the effects of an open-shop law in Wisconsin by extending contracts, a top union official said.

Saturday's State Journal cartoon by Phil Hands depicting one of the Solidarity Singers or protesters or activists or whatever they choose to call themselves as best supporting actor in Gov. Sc…

I was upset to hear Rudy Guilliani say President Barack Obama doesn't love America or you or me, and that he wasn't brought up the same. 

If the way President Barack Obama treats U.S. veterans and the military is any example of his love of the United States, then there is no need for further discussion.

Allowing the formation of charter schools paid for with tax funds taken from school district budgets and functioning without district oversight is a travesty.

The "Right To Work For Less" legislation being fast-tracked this week will hurt Wisconsin as it has hurt every other state that has it.

The Wisconsin Education Association Council is reinventing itself by starting back at the local level and building a new foundation of support.

Three questions were asked of Republicans seeking the nomination for president: "Do you believe in evolution? Does our president love America? Is the president a Christian."

Building trades unions probably won't be able to postpone the effects of an open-shop law in Wisconsin by extending contracts, a top union official said.

A Madison man who police say accidentally shot a blood center worker in the foot last week, setting off a lockdown at nearby schools and businesses, was charged Tuesday with illegal gun posses…

Dane County authorities have arrested a Cottage Grove man in connection with a suspected arson fire to a house where a sex offender was to live despite the objections of his prospective neighbors.

Nationwide, banks also earned less, for the first time in five years, the FDIC said.