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Increasingly, school events, youth sports, recreational leagues and similar activities have encroached on Wednesday nights and Sunday mornings -- times communities used to set apart for church activities. But now when some Middleton parents try to create time and space…

Apparently some people have lived a sheltered life because they don't know anyone who had a hard time getting a photo ID. The April 10 letter to the editor "Having ID is personal responsibility" assumed everyone has family or friends…

Recently UW-Madison provided a lesson in racial disparity, institutional racism and unconscious bias. This past year has seen racist and anti-Semitic threats, as well as verbal and physical assaults on students.

The recent large raises for the State of Wisconsin Investment Board are out of line with reality.

The start time for Saturday's game has been moved up to 11 a.m.

The Badgers fall 4-0 in the Big Ten quarterfinals.

Ionic includes a coastal investor among its financial backers.

First-quarter results were released late Thursday.

Even with an atypical start to the recruiting cycle, Greg Gard emerged satisfied with UW's two recruits in the class of 2016.

Dane County has agreed to make a donation to a Monona food pantry as part of a settlement of a lawsuit over the response time to a fire that caused the death of a man in 2013.

MIDDLETON - James Norman Kosmond, born in Chicago in 1935, gently passed at Agrace HospiceCare on April 16, 2016.

WALWORTH / BOSCOBEL - Elaine Marie Jacobson, age 98, formerly of Boscobel, died peacefully on Wednesday, April 27, 2016, at Golden Years Healthcare Center in Walworth, Wis.

REEDSBURG - Elda M. Luetkens, age 92, died on Friday, April 29, 2016, at Meadow View Memory Care in Baraboo.

The Wisconsin firm, with offices in Madison, will become part of Husch Blackwell.

It might be hard to fly a kite or find a dry spot in Madison Saturday, but the weather stands to improve dramatically come Sunday and beyond.

Rep. Andre Jacque, R-De Pere, said he was knocked off the final delegate list by the state Republican Party.

History is a slow and usually undetectable process, with change happening in microscopic increments. But sometimes, you can see and feel the world changing, and we've just experienced one of those moments.

A South Side MATC campus could be a boon to that community, but some of Madison's elite want to keep the campus Downtown.

Here's how members of Wisconsin's congressional delegation voted on major issues this week.

Construction work will resume on Monday at the Highway 73 and 12/18 intersection south of Deerfield, with flagging operations handling traffic.