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An estimated 60,000 Wisconsin students attend 244 for-profit colleges annually. The board has 6.5 full-time employees and an annual budget of about $600,000 paid entirely by fees assessed to t…

Some agencies would be eliminated or consolidated into new ones under Gov. Scott Walker's proposed 2015-17 budget, while duties belonging to one office are being transferred or consolidated in…

Walker also calls to stop using Smarter Balanced exams, which students are scheduled to take next month.

The program would be removed from the state Department of Workforce Development and split between two other state agencies.

The state Department of Corrections would face just over $100 million in cuts under Gov. Scott Walker's 2015-17 budget proposal.

The proposal further strips the DATCP board that had its authority to select the agency secretary stripped by former Gov. Tommy Thompson in his budget 20 years ago.

Wisconsin Technology Council's president says the move could help companies draw more funding.

Is Gov. Scott Walker showing signs of delusion, or is he simply trying to divert attention from his continuing $2.2 billion deficit, failed job creation plan, and divide-and-conquer political agenda?

In the Madison mayoral primary Feb 17, it is just as important to know what specifically the candidates oppose as to know their "visions." 

The wasteful and inefficient Keystone XL pipeline would destroy a vast area of Canada, home to a vast array of wildlife and indigenous people. It would destroy habitat, threatening endangered …

Amid discussion of Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to cut the University of Wisconsin System’s budget, the System and UW-Madison are often conflated. What about the other 25 campuses in the state?

Mary Lang Sollinger announced Tuesday she will run to become chairwoman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.

A man who told police that he accidentally shot a friend through the seat of a car Friday after he dropped a gun was charged Tuesday with first-degree reckless injury.

A Waunakee man was charged Tuesday with his eighth drunken driving offense after he was seen by police swerving in traffic with the trunk of his car open on Friday night.

Roger Hanson was trying to create a 75 foot-tall and 90 foot-wide ice sculpture to help draw tourists to the northern Wisconsin city.

With improvements at Breese Stevens, formerly the home for all Madison high school football games, the time is right for East to return to the 89-year-old landmark venue on East Mifflin Street.

MONONA - Joseph Andrew Frisch, age 87, passed away at home, with his family, on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015.

MADISON - Evelyn Ingeborg (Weinreich) Hughes was born into eternal life on Monday, Feb. 2, 2015.

MIDDLETON - Steven Paul "Star" Starczynski, age 66, passed away on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015.

VERONA - Phyllis June Cottrill, age 92, of Verona, died on Jan. 29, 2015, at Muscoda Golden Living Center. Phyllis was born on June 7, 1922, in Twin Bluffs, to Delford and Cleo Worden. She gra…