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Immerse yourself in the colorful art and culture of India at the Kalaanjali School of Indian Dance’s annual recital, 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday at Oregon High School, 456 N. Perry Parkway. Seating for the free event begins at 1:30…

After piling up 91 catches for 1,287 yards and 12 touchdowns in 2014, Cobb caught 79 passes for 829 yards and six touchdowns in 2015.

Decorah was the Badger North Conference defensive lineman of the year.

Alex Duff has been working toward this weekend for a year.

Wisconsin has solid showing in Pennsylvania.

Kate Prudent scored in the sixth minute to open the scoring and help lead the host Madison Memorial girls soccer team to a 3-0 win over Lake Geneva Badger in a WIAA Division 1 regional semifinal Thursday night.

The Mallards complete a 3-0 trip and prepare for Friday night's home opener.

Walker Jenkins drove in the go-ahead run with a double in the bottom of the sixth inning as the host Sun Prairie baseball team held on to defeat Oshkosh West 3-2 in a WIAA Division 1 regional final Thursday afternoon.

No matter how talented the player, the atmosphere of the WIAA state boys tennis tournament has a tendency to magnify mistakes. The big stage leads to nerves, nerves lead to mistakes, and mistakes lead to early exits.

Chase Anderson pitches effectively into the sixth inning for the Brewers.

The Poynette softball team didn’t have many players returning as starters from last year’s squad that finished as the Division 3 state runner-up, so not many expected the Pumas to be going back to Goodman Diamond to play in the…

Quin Nelson and Meghan Anderson combine to shut down the Vikings.

WASHINGTON — Part of Bernie Sanders’ charm is that for all of his arm-waving jeremiads, he appears unthreatening. He’s the weird old uncle in the attic, Larry David’s crazy Bernie.

Madison Fire Department Chief Steve Davis said investigators don't know exactly what started Wednesday's fire, and may never know.

So Gov. Scott Walker was recently caught lying about changing the mission statement of the University of Wisconsin System.

As the fall election approaches, we all owe it to ourselves to use our imagination to picture the state and the country as it could be. Imagine excellent schools. Imagine no child living in poverty. Imagine affordable higher education. Imagine…

The Republican attack on UW has led to professors leaving the university in droves. UW-Madison professors bring in around $1 billion in research grants each year. That's more than twice as much money as the university gets from the state.

As a disabled Vietnam-era veteran, I took offense to Phil Hands' cartoon in the Sunday's State Journal, saying some veterans "died in line at the VA."

Reading the subtitle of James Campbell's latest book, you stop to fret. Is this about Campbell again challenging Alaska’s wilderness, or about testing paternal bonds with his teenage daughter?After all, if we took such journeys, our book would likely be…

Aaron Meier, 14, chose to hunt during the two latest hunting periods, E and F. There are fewer birds because some have already been taken. Often gobblers are less responsive to hunting tactics in late May, too.