Wisconsin State Journal Local News

CHICAGO — People often debate the merits of conference tournaments in college men’s basketball, but there is no question where this week’s Big Ten Conference tournament fell on the University …

Ramirez got his first extra-base hit of the spring, a two-run double in the first inning that sent Milwaukee past Colorado 5-3 Thursday.

CHICAGO — Vitto Brown hit the rewind button earlier this week and told a story from last summer.

Looking back on it, Matt Paape made a strong first impression when he debuted with the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team in 2011.

UW will close the regular season with a Big Ten series vs. Ohio State Friday and Saturday at the Kohl Center.

University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Mike Eaves emailed a letter to season ticket holders Thursday apologizing for something one of his assistants said last week.

M Adams of Freedom Inc. and the Young Gifted and Black Coalition and Nino Rodriguez of the MOSES Jail Taskforce argued against the jail renovations.

WAUNAKEE — The most recent time Drew Fredrickson and the Mount Horeb boys basketball team faced DeForest, they squandered a nine-point halftime lead before falling to the Norskies by one on a …

MIDDLETON — This season, Madison Memorial boys basketball coach Steve Collins grew accustomed to tight, back-and-forth games, when big shots down the stretch determined the outcomes.

INDIANAPOLIS — Road success that has been instrumental in Milwaukee’s surprising resurgence this season is suddenly elusive.

A fourth-quarter burst Thursday night lifted the Madison East boys basketball team to within one victory of a WIAA Division 1 state tournament berth.

Thursday’s results

ASHWAUBENON — Fall Creek held off a late charge from Marathon to pull out a 56-51 victory in a WIAA Division 4 state girls basketball semifinal Thursday night.

ASHWAUBENON — The chant by the Fond du Lac St. Mary’s Springs student section of “You can’t stop her” grew louder and louder as senior Kelli Schrauth proceeded to score a game-high 25 points o…

A forum pitting Mayor Paul Soglin against challenger Ald. Scott Resnick and hosted by an African-American organization Thursday night stayed largely tame and noncontroversial.

After a long winter and days of inactivity, the exercise that you get from searching the woods and valleys for sheds is welcomed by most of us.

Common muskrats are large, furry rodents with equally long tails and partially webbed hind feet that they use as paddles to swim forward and backward with relative ease.

WASHINGTON — She burned the tapes.

Junior Hannah Whitish, who is in her third state tournament, scored a game-high 25 points as Barneveld jumped out a 16-2 lead and never looked back, beating Fall River 66-34 at the Resch Center.

Taxpayers beware. We are about to be saddled with nearly $2 billion in unnecessary long-term debt by the governor and Legislature. They hope we will be distracted by other things such as right…