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One model of political statesmanship is figuring out where you want the country to go and persuading the people to follow in that direction. Another is figuring out where the people are going …

The junior cornerback has been a far more aggressive player in the five practices since he received the encouraging words.

It could have been the greatest year in Wisconsin sports history.

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Cambridge native Matt Kenseth is just a year younger than Jeff Gordon, who has already said he’ll retire at the end of this season.

Each of the last 11 years, the Madison Edgewood boys tennis team has qualified for the WIAA Division 2 state tournament.

With a victory in the meet’s final event, the 1,600-meter relay, the McFarland girls track and field team clinched team honors in its own Spartan Invitational on Saturday.

The Sun Prairie softball team came awfully close to sweeping its way through its own four-team tournament on Saturday.

Mick Byrne calls the goals set by Michael Lihrman “crazy,” but the University of Wisconsin’s director of track and field and cross country likes the way the senior thinks.

The governor highlighted his accomplishments, though recent polls show his support in Wisconsin is flagging.

The Brewers lost their fourth straight game and are off to their worst start since also going 2-9 in 2002.

Rose has 23 points and seven assists in his first playoff game in three years.

Mike Eaves’ current priorities as University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach are easy to define, but difficult to measure or separate.

Major research universities such as UW-Madison are vital to the innovation economy, not only nationally but in the states and communities they serve.

The couple that were rescued by the quick actions of a friend Friday at the Midwest Horse Fair were recovering Saturday at a Milwaukee hospital.

This governor and Legislature do not get it. 

I haven’t seen such fawning over a candidate since, well, Barrack Obama. We all have seen what a failure that has been. But the liberal press doesn't admit it because they crowned him before t…

The behavior by the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition is way out of control. Why are they being allowed to put so much of the public in danger with their behavior?

Fill in the caption with a clever quip by Wednesday and win publication of your line with the cartoon in next Sunday’s newspaper. You’ll also receive a signed print of the cartoon by artist Ph…

Gov. Scott Walker has proposed cuts to UW, which has been credited with generating more than $12 billion for the state's economy.  

Madison Police responded to reports of shots fired on the North Side early Saturday morning.