Wisconsin State Journal Local News

A strong second-half charge Saturday afternoon vaulted the Verona girls basketball team into the Big Eight Conference race with a 53-45 victory over first-place Janesville Craig.

The state’s top-ranked Division 1 boys basketball team, Stevens Point, strutted its stuff Saturday during a 71-55 non-conference victory over Big Eight Conference leader Middleton at JustAGame…

PLAYER OF THE GAME

REEDSBURG — When Mount Horeb senior guard Drew Fredrickson sank a 3-pointer just before the first-half buzzer, it proved to be just a warm-up for when the Vikings would need him the most.

If this isn’t the lowest, most humiliating point of the season for the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team then some sadistic tendencies might well be in play.

Sophomore forward Marissa Robson scored 19 points Saturday night to lead host Stoughton to a 51-31 victory over Monroe in Badger South Conference girls basketball action.

University of Wisconsin women’s hockey coach Mark Johnson likened Saturday’s game against Clarkson to a postseason matchup.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team survived Saturday night at Crisler Arena.

Remember the “47 percent”?

It wasn’t first place, but Madison La Follette wresting coach Gary Skiles considered Saturday’s meet at Madison East a good barometer for where his team stands just weeks before the Big Eight …

The stage is set for a state Capitol debate over the future of the University of Wisconsin System, from its smallest two-year campus to its flagship research powerhouse in Madison.

A man suspected in a homicide case in Chicago was apprehended early Saturday morning at a Southeast Side hotel.

In any economy, individuals or nations can’t consume their way to prosperity when the products consumed are manufactured by foreign labor.

The left is screaming about the projected $2.2 billion budget deficit facing the state of Wisconsin. Let us all be reminded the dollar amount mentioned is simply projected and not actual.

Gov. Scott Walker is proposing drug testing for recipients of state aid, with an emphasis on testing "able-bodied" adults.

I disagree with Steven Durlauf's column in last Sunday's State Journal. President Barack Obama’s call for free tuition for two years of college is most certainly not an empty promise.

Many folks look at our world through the prism of conservative vs. liberal or Republican vs. Democrat. We might better understand our problems if we see them as a matter of short-term thinking…

I’m not entirely satisfied to learn from our governor that he will wait until he hears from God before deciding whether to run for president. The clear implication, if he makes a formal announ…

In 1981, I earned a degree from Madison Area Technical College. My tuition for the two-year program was about $2,000, which was paid for with federal grant money.

Madison’s ‘mayor for life’ plastered on billboard