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“It’s a racehorse waiting to be unleashed,” says Deb Archer, director of the Greater Madison Convention and Visitors Bureau. She is talking about how much more business Monona Terrace would do with a new hotel, as proposed for the latest…

MADISON, Wis. - Home Savings Bank has announced six staff promotions: Debbie Fox-Schroeder to vice president of retail operations and associate development; Kim Rung to assistant vice president; both Diane Kazmierczak and Kris Pappa to assistant vice president; Trisha Alt,…

"For some people of our delegation, it was a significant sacrifice to go."

Madison prevails on the first pitch of the bottom of the 10th inning.

The right-hander is lifted with two out in the ninth after allowing just four hits.

Mike Calkins has returned as third-base coach, but his uncle, Scott Knorr, remains in the dugout as bench coach.

J.H. Findorff & Son, the general contractor, also ordered to pay $4.7 million to two subcontractors on the $100 million project

After reading the well written article on the Wisconsin Badgers basketball team, I can't help feeling how great this team can be.

Liberal Democrats claim they're more supportive of women's issues than conservatives. But the resolution of the Roger Ailes affair raises some questions.

I am writing this to say thank you to the East Johnson Street neighborhood.

I was appalled by the racist letter to the editor "Follow the rules and the cops won't bother you" in Tuesday's paper. It claimed, among other things, that if an African-American followed a police officer's commands, he or she would…

I worked as a prosecutor for Bob Jambois for 17 years when he was Kenosha County district attorney. He tried the hardest cases and appeared in court every day. He networked with defense attorneys, social workers, probation agents, cops and…

It's quite the process to make sure nearly 2,000 swimmers -- many of them young children -- are where they need to be.

Invenra is a biotech making anti-cancer antibodies; Markable is an app for fashionistas.

The Madison company says it will use the money to expand marketing of the Cologuard cancer test.

A federal judge in Madison on Friday ruled that portions of Wisconsin's Voter ID law are unconstitutional, among them including limits on in-person absentee voting.

The city will temporarily use rented voting equipment, but the timing of the flooding has put significant pressure on the clerk's office to get the rented machines tested before the Aug. 9 primary.

Anita Kuhner, 72, of Brooklyn was identified Friday by the Dane County Medical Examiner's Office as the first victim of the three car crash in Rutland on Wednesday morning.

Calling it "one of the hardest sentences" he's had to decide, a Dane County judge sentenced a Russian immigrant to probation for the stabbing death last summer of her husband at their rural DeForest farmhouse.