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A committee from the DeForest School District is nearing completion on a second version of a new pay structure that would depart from a long-standing model most districts have used for years.

Last year I talked about the dangers of overtesting. Once you find things, you are usually bound to follow it up.

Every few decades or so, the late-night TV landscape goes through a whole-scale overhaul of sorts. It’s only natural; people retire, new faces come in, people un-retire, new faces move to cable.

Before UW-Madison’s percussion students head off en masse to China, they want to celebrate where they’ve come from.

UW-Madison welcomes the public to its annual Science Expeditions open house weekend Friday through Sunday. The event is anchored by activities and hands-on explorations stations from 10 a.m. t…

The sophomore point guard calls it confidence, not cockiness.

UW had won nine NCAA tournament games in seven appearances in the Big Dance before Ryan arrived in 2001 and led the Badgers to 20 victories over the next 13 seasons.

The 6-foot-9 Dekker needs to have a strong postseason for UW to get back to the Final Four. 

OMAHA, Neb. — It is a statistic every Bracketology 101 student can recite from memory.

UW is 0-15-2 against its biggest rival since its last victory in 2011.

Harris missed all of the 2013 season with a knee injury and appeared in 15 games for the Packers last season.

Three University of Wisconsin wrestlers advanced to today’s quarterfinals with a pair of victories Thursday on the first of three days at the NCAA Division I wrestling championships on Thursda…

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Turner Poad knew it had taken Mineral Point a long time to make a return trip to the WIAA state boys basketball tournament.

DETROIT — Habits cultivated over the course of five months are hard to dismantle in one evening.

The forum was peppered by shouts and chants from those protesting the death of Tony Robinson.

The Tigers weren't ready to head home just yet.

Jeremy M. Schnabel, 27, of Madison, was killed in a single-vehicle traffic crash Tuesday in the town of Montrose, the Dane County Medical Examiner's Office said.

A new Japanese restaurant with a location in Janesville is going into Greenway Station in Middleton.

WASHINGTON — Of all the idiocies uttered in reaction to Benjamin Netanyahu’s stunning election victory, none is more ubiquitous than the idea that peace prospects are now dead because Netanyah…