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The sun should continue to shine on Madison on Wednesday, but there's a chance for rain coming in on Thursday.

A fire in a mobile home in Janesville on Sunday was caused by natural gas ignited by an arcing electrical line.

A shortcut familiar to West Side hardware buyers will soon be relegated to history.

What universities produce the captains of industry and finance in America? Harvard is a given, but what about the University of Wisconsin?

Madison police are distributing leaflets in areas of the city where there's been an uptick in burglaries from garages, the latest being a burglary early Monday morning from a garage on the city's Southwest Side.

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A 14-year-old Madison boy faces multiple charges after being arrested Saturday for allegedly stealing a car, stealing credit cards and having a facsimile handgun in his back pack.

An 80-year-old Juneau County woman has been reported missing after leaving her house on Sunday and not returning.

Lambeau Field will host Wisconsin and LSU in the Lambeau Field College Classic on Sept. 3, the first major college football game ever held at the historic stadium.

The tournament will take place from July 2-10 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Charlotte Hornets forward and former University of Wisconsin standout Frank Kaminsky will have offseason surgery to repair a small pocket of air in his chest wall. The Hornets estimate six weeks of recovery time from the procedure.

Dane County communities wanting to clean up urban storm water runoff can get financial help from the county.

Monkeys infected with Zika virus are protected from future infection, and pregnancy dramatically prolongs infection in monkeys, findings that could help in fighting the virus in people, UW-Madison researchers said Tuesday.

A woman armed with an 8 1/2-inch blade knife allegedly chased after a man, broke a window on the man's car and caused a disturbance at a nearby hotel Thursday morning on Madison's East Side, before getting arrested.

It’s time for a summer edition of “Ask the Beer Baron.”

The 60-year-old Dane County Jail caught another inmate Monday night, trapping the inmate in a cell for close to an hour when the door wouldn't open.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has rejected appeals from Mississippi and Wisconsin seeking to put in place restrictions on abortion clinics that were struck down by lower courts.

An East Side man who thought another man looked suspicious standing near a gas station early Tuesday morning allegedly chased him while holding a knife, before police arrived and arrested the knife holder.

PETacular Professions is one of the themes for the summer programs at the Dane County Humane Society.

I wonder how many other 18-year-old alleged felons wish they had a shot at getting their charges erased.