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A UW-Madison scientist says a method he developed to predict flu virus mutations could make the annual flu vaccine more effective by better matching it to the flu strains that circulate each flu season.

Warm temperatures, low humidity, strong winds and very dry vegetation have combined to prompt state officials to ban burning in a dozen counties of northern Wisconsin on Monday.

A La Crosse man was shot twice in the abdomen Friday night during a fight in Viola, with the man allegedly doing the shooting also injured in the fight.

A man outside an East Side strip club was mugged early Monday morning, the victim losing his wallet in the strong-arm robbery.

Two people, one from Madison and one from Fitchburg, were killed Sunday afternoon in Rock County, with the crash tying up traffic on Highway 14 for about five hours.

Relatives of a Madison man who died under confusing circumstances in Jamaica last month want the death investigated.

Madison Police Chief Mike Koval calls the arrangement "a malady that has laid siege to our department."

Despite an ongoing prevalence of chickens, ours is not a farm in the professional sense, but I was nonetheless under some pressure this spring to get the crops in. (OK, crop, singular.) But still one must till! (OK, scratch up…

Viruses like influenza or HIV mutate very rapidly. The immune response from a vaccine needs to cope with this level of variability in the virus.

Storms in the warmer, moister atmosphere of the future have the potential to be more severe than otherwise similar storms today.

TRACK AND FIELD

Award: UW-Madison juniors Oona-lfe Olaiya and Michelle Tong received the Michael Thornton and Nora Medina Social Innovation Award. Their project, College Advancement Mentorship Program at Bayview Foundation, will provide disadvantaged high school students with tools to achieve success.

Six-foot-3 Danielle Hart originally committed to Virginia Tech.

The senior says her top priority is extending the Warriors' 800-meter relay title streak to four.

Zach Wisowaty aids the 8-0 shutout with four hits, including a home run.

During their Big Eight Conference championship match against top-seeded Middleton on Thursday, Madison West seniors Matt Munns and Cameron Carlson already were facing a one-set deficit when apparent disaster struck the No. 1 doubles pair.

The Cambridge Tree Project uses the proceeds from its annual tree sale to donate diverse varieties of trees to be planted in Cambridge and Rockdale common spaces.

Two 26-year-old Madison friends were injured, one seriously, after multiple shots were fired in the parking lot of La Hacienda restaurant early Sunday morning.

Nevada supporters of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders engaged in a shameful display of mob anarchy at that state’s convention a week ago, and so far the Vermont senator’s response has fallen far short of the leadership needed in such a…

Finally, I know why that bonehead (maybe it is a Downy) woodpecker is pecking on the rain gutter right by the bedroom window at 5:30 every morning. I could not figure out why it would want to bang on that…