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High school graduation rates are up in Wisconsin, and the gap in the rates between students of color and white students is closing, according to figures released Thursday.

A Wisconsin Senate panel has dealt a blow to efforts to repeal the state's prevailing wage.

State law currently says students in grades grades 4, 8 and 9 through 11 may opt out of state tests because it was written when only students in those grades took state tests.

There are a host of events tonight far less controversial than Lake Louie's The Twins party at a strip club.

David Orr has been elected as Hooper Corporation's eighth president. Orr's appointment is from General Heating and Air Conditioning, a subsidiary of Hooper, where he served as president since 2010.

The Wisconsin Chapter of the Risk Management Association is proud to announce that the following individuals have been elected to its Board of

After 38 years of service - the last 15 as president - Fred Davie retired from Hooper Corporation at the end of 2014. Davie provided key leadership at Hooper

Middleton --- The Bruce Company, Wisconsin's largest landscape contractor announced as part of its ongoing leadership succession plan the promotion of four executive leaders. Seth Nicholson, a…

MADISON (May 1, 2015) - McGladrey LLP, the nation's leading provider of assurance, tax and consulting services focused on the middle market, announced today that Val Leitzen has been promoted …

Dr. Richard Page, George R. and Elaine Love Professor and chair of the department of medicine in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, has been elected as a…

Tony Robinson's mother says, "My whole life is in limbo" as family awaits DA's decision.

It might be wise to withhold judgment until the task force makes its recommendations.

Jason's Deli should fulfill the corned beef and pastrami needs of the West Side of Madison and then some.

Ray is volunteer director of Sustainable Atwood's tool library.

When the door wouldn't open from the outside, a long, red ladder was brought to the walkway on the Loge level and an employee climbed through the large front windowless opening of the booth to…

BASEBALL

Five years can seem like an eternity in the world of major college athletics.

By the end of the week, Andrew Yontz and his Madison Edgewood boys golf teammates will have played at Bristlecone Pines near Hartland, University Ridge (twice) and the Irish Course at Whistlin…

Six Madison residents have been charged in federal court with conspiring to distribute marijuana to the Madison area, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday.

MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Brewers needed Wily Peralta to pick them up Wednesday night.