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Behind strong outings in the distance and throwing events, the University of Wisconsin men’s track and field team claimed a second straight title on Saturday at the Armory Collegiate Invitatio…

It was a simple play: the good old pick-and-roll.

Luke McElhenie gave his team a chance in the final minutes of regulation, but the Madison Capitols’ late rally ultimately fell short in a 4-3 overtime loss to the Omaha Lancers in a U.S. Hocke…

Sophomore forward Marissa Robinson scored 23 points to power host Stoughton to a 65-44 victory over Monona Grove in a Badger South Conference girls basketball game on Saturday night.

Joel Rumpel makes 42 saves for the Badgers.

Back-to-back fourth-quarter 3-pointers from junior guard Peyton Mueller and senior forward Joel O’Donnell propelled the host Monona Grove boys basketball team to a 58-53 non-conference victory…

Jerryd Bayless scores 19 points to lead seven Milwaukee players in double figures.

It took Caitlyn Link only 16 seconds to jump-start the Madison Edgewood girls basketball team’s offense on Saturday night. But it was Edgewood’s tenacious defense that proved to be the differe…

The victim suffered what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries, Madison police said.

For the second time Saturday, Madison Memorial’s Baird Miller and Drake Horton were only worried about each other.

The Verona/Madison Edgewood gymnastics team won a back-and-forth battle against host Madison Memorial to win the White Division championship of Saturday’s 16-team Spartan Invitational.

MANKATO, Minn. — The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team has never lost a game here, so there was no panic when the Badgers trailed by a goal after one period Saturday.

Ryan Suchanek of Milton reclaimed his Guinness World Record for fastest motorcycle wheelie on ice when he was clocked at 117.5 mph Saturday on Lake Koshkonong.

Those squeals of indignation you hear echoing from one end of Madison to the other are likely occasioned by Gov. Scott Walker's proposed cuts to the University of Wisconsin System budget.

The front page of last Sunday’s paper carried a story not just about gays and not just about prisoners, but about gay prisoners. These branches of the human family are often tackled individual…

If Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-run Legislature were really honest about their motivation to drug-test food stamp and other welfare recipients as a way to remove barriers to help peopl…

Gov. Scott Walker may well wish to rethink his leadership analogy.

Contrary to Tuesday’s letter “Worry about social injustice, not climate," the science of human-caused climate change is settled. Whether we will respond to it effectively is another matter. An…

To say the state can cut $300 million from the University of Wisconsin System without affecting the quality of education and research is simply not true. Far from saving money, failing to inve…