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MADISON / MILWAUKEE - Germaine Reik, age 90, died peacefully on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, at Oakwood Village in Madison, from long-term effects of Alzheimer's. She was born on July 31, 1924, in …

It’s the Super Bowl of TV commercials. It’s the Super Bowl of pretending junk food is good for you. It’s the Super Bowl of commercial gluttony.

The city's Community Development Authority seeks to create 40 units of permanent supportive housing near Mineral Point Road and Tree Lane.

Kaminsky scores 24 points in the Badgers' 74-63 victory Saturday in Iowa City.

Madison Police Chief Mike Koval will hold a series of public forums across the city in February.

Mary Lou Reinwand grew her store, Rosy Cheeks and Co., from small at-home sewing projects into one of the region’s largest retailers of dance, gymnastics and skating clothing.

But by then, presidential aspirant Scott Walker could be in the White House, where it wouldn’t be his problem anymore.

PRAIRIE DU CHIEN — The good thing about walking down into deep woods is that the direction back home follows gravity’s trail. You walk up.

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Senior forward Duje Dukan took a big-picture approach when analyzing the production the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team got from its bench during a 69-64 overti…

“I love seeing the outdoors; it’s just fun to fish,” Blake Wilcox, an eighth-grader from Reedsburg, said while fishing with relatives on Cox Hollow Lake in Governor Dodge State Park recently. 

Junior Kelsey Card made her mark Friday at the Armory Track Invitational, which features competition between 71 colleges and universities, at the New Balance Track and Field Center in New York City.

Senior guards Elizabeth Norregaard and Jenna Blair scored 17 points apiece to lead Middleton to a 65-41 victory over host Madison La Follette in a Big Eight Conference girls basketball game on…

The Baraboo girls basketball trailed early but eventually rolled to a 56-38 victory over visiting Sauk Prairie in Badger North Conference action Friday night.

The Madison Capitols tried desperately to set the tone early on Friday night, but Lassi Yrjola would have none of it.

Breaking a tie with a 25-8 scoring run in the fourth quarter, the Poynette boys basketball team took control of the Capitol North Conference race Friday night.

Eighteen weeks ago, it was the kind of high-grade matchup you circled on your calendar with optimistic glee.

The Madison Memorial boys hockey team advanced to tonight’s championship game of the Sun Prairie Groundhog Tournament with a 9-4 victory over Waunakee on Friday.

Junior forward Tristan Shoup scored 24 points Friday night to lead host Fort Atkinson to a 47-35 win over Jefferson in a non-conference boys basketball game.

MANKATO, Min. — Entering with four weekend series remaining in the regular season, a pair of freshmen made sure the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team didn’t take its foot off the gas…

The guards, both back from ACL injuries, set the tone for the Wildcats as they try to keep pace in the Big Eight Conference.