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Everyone wants a long, sweet life. Everybody. But it’s a two-sided coin — length on one side and sweetness on the other. No one wants a long, awful life. One that lasts too long is not my idea nor yours…

Discover new ways to enjoy the area’s bodies of water at the Madison Water Sport Expo 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at Brittingham Park Shelter, 829 W. Washington Ave. The expo serves as an open house for local water…

Today’s age of immediacy, despite several failings that would suggest otherwise, still allows the luxury to review and edit one’s screed before hitting “post.”

A wet start to the week, after a warm and dry weekend, saw large regions of Wisconsin experience sporadic and, in some cases, heavy rain for the past several days.

When she was sidelined with injuries earlier in her career, Middleton senior Samantha Valentine got used to helping the track and field team however she could.

Baseball

Baseball

Family and friends gathered Thursday to hold a vigil at the gas station where Darius Haynes was fatally shot Tuesday.

The Spartans' No. 1 tops Verona's previously unbeaten Will Tennison to stay perfect in Big Eight play, but Verona wins the dual, 6-1

Milwaukee's Jimmy Nelson gives up just two run in eight innings but takes the loss.

UW can't get the bats going and bow out in the opening round.

The Madison business is one of six that received awards in a banquet Thursday night.

The senior third baseman delivers the game-winning hit an inning after his error put his team in a one-run hole.

San Jose Sharks center and former University of Wisconsin standout Joe Pavelski scored the first goal of Game 7 in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs against Nashville on Thursday night.

Farmers, and other landowners or land managers, ginseng diggers, and naturalists all have reasons to recognize this unique, valuable wild plant.

A lot of discussion is centered around Donald Trump’s knowledge and temperament to be commander in chief. Critics cite his lack of understanding of the complexities of the war in the Middle East and his often confusing outbursts of anger…

Those mean old Republicans are “foisting private, taxpayer-funded independent charter schools” on the good people of Madison, wrote former School Board member Barbara Arnold in her Monday letter, "'Charter czar' is bad public policy."

North Carolina’s governor justifies his signing of his state’s controversial bathroom bill into law by saying it keeps men out of the ladies’ rooms, and women out of the men’s rooms.

As the debate over tenure for University of Wisconsin System educators continues, it's worth noting that the World Credit Union Center on Mineral Point Road would not be in Madison if it were not for UW's reputation as a first-rate…

I am having a hard time rationalizing the Black Lives Matter movement when it only seems interested in black lives mattering when a white person is involved.