Wisconsin State Journal Local News

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — An opportunity for the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team to ease its early-season misery seemed to present itself Friday night.

TORONTO — The Milwaukee Bucks were quickly brought back down to earth Friday night.

Daniel Willett scored the lone shootout goal as the Madison Capitols edged the Green Bay Gamblers 5-4 in a United States Hockey League game Friday at the Dane County Coliseum.

The host DeForest girls basketball team, last season’s WIAA Division 2 state runner-up, opened its season with a 67-35 victory over Madison La Follette on Friday.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The University of Wisconsin volleyball team moved a step closer to its first Big Ten Conference championship since 2001 with a sweep of Ohio State on Friday night, extending t…

A man with a handgun robbed a Klinke Cleaners on Odana Road on Friday night, police said.

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — The No. 3 University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team wasted little time dispensing with the drama.

Track owner Terry Kunes is mulling at least four offers to sell Madison International Speedway.

A man was killed in a farming accident at an Amish farm in Elk Grove Township Friday. 

For years, I’ve been watching the sold-out student section at Camp Randall take until the end of the first half to fill up. It doesn’t matter if the opponent is Nebraska, Ohio State or Delawar…

Leaf man, leaf man,

The Wisconsin Badgers are fantastic entertainment. Last Saturday's football game was no exception. Wow!

One man was charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide and another faces a first-degree reckless endangerment charge for a shooting last week on Madison's West Side during an app…

Spectrom takes first prize in the Collegiate Inventors Competition.

Proposed project would deliver 36 apartments for those with lower incomes at West Broadway and Fayette avenues. 

In a lawsuit filed late Thursday, the town of Madison called the procedure used to locate a day shelter for the homeless in the town "unfair" and asked a Dane County judge to reverse the decision.

Another politician has a story about a run-in with a cabinet.

Before there were trail cameras, there was snow.

If we could compile a list of Wisconsin hunters who have died while hauling deer from the woods in recent seasons, I’m sure it would exceed the 25 who died from gunshots the past 15 years.

UCF opens a 2-0 lead and holds on to beat the Badgers 3-2 in Tallahassee, Fla.