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A former UW Hospital nurse received five years of probation Friday for stealing morphine while working at the hospital in 2013 and 2014.

The awards reflect higher-than-norm investment gains for the Wisconsin Retirement System over the past five years.

Bill Johnson, the radio announcer for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee basketball program for 16 seasons, is stepping down and slammed the school's upper administration for its lack of leadership.

An argument between high school students on a jammed Metro Transit bus Thursday turned into a melee, with two girls using pepper spray during the fight.

We rely on our courts to resolve disputes between the branches of our government, to interpret the law and to protect our rights. For the courts to do this job, they must have judges.

The group, Majority Forward, is hammering Johnson and other Republican senators facing re-election this year in a string of online ads.

WASHINGTON -- Since President Obama nominated federal Judge Merrick Garland in March to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, much effort on both sides of the political aisle has gone into determining his ideological leanings and how he would prospectively…

We usually do not complain when a commonly used consumer item gets cheaper, but first-class postage presents a bit of a special case. The sudden 2-cent drop in price, from 49 cents to 47 cents, makes a mockery of the…

A Dodgeville man was killed Thursday when his car drifted across a Grant County highway and hit a tanker trailer.

A construction project will shrink West Johnson Street in Downtown Madison down to one lane on Saturday, which could cause some traffic delays.

What age group has the highest percentage of people not in the workforce?

Type “chicken recipe” into Google and watch as millions of suggestions line up, page after page, at your beck and call. There is no shortage of ways to cook our favorite bird. But often what I really want when I…

A 17-year-old Madison boy suffered an apparent broken leg Thursday when he started running across a street and was struck by a car.

Bernie Sanders’ promises are like music or candy to liberal Democrats. Free tuition for all. High-quality health care provided by the government as a matter of right, not charity. Help for the poor that would simultaneously reduce income inequality and…

A man stabbed in the chest on Thursday night in Downtown Madison is expected to live while his alleged attacker was taken to jail.

Two people suffered minor injuries Thursday night when their SUV was struck by a Metro Transit bus in Downtown Madison, the driver of the SUV ticketed for running a red light.

I have wanted to make this soup forever, and I have no idea what’s been stopping me.

Last week, 53 public school districts asked their local citizens for additional financial support through 71 referendum questions. Of those ballot issues, voters approved 55, or more than 77 percent.

The weather can't get much better for Madison than what we are experiencing in mid-April, and forecasts show the great weather continuing for the upcoming week.