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Eight University of Wisconsin women’s hockey players earned Western Collegiate Hockey Association honors Wednesday.

The Boilermakers' April Wilson scores with 3 seconds left and the Badgers' Jacki Gulczynski's 3-pointer at the buzzer is waved off, ending UW's season with a 20th loss.

Candidates face questions on housing, homelessness, and racial equality.

While the trout population is down significantly in some south-central streams, due primarily to past drought and severe winters, that is not the case in most spring-fed streams in Crawford, L…

The popular Osseo-based restaurant and bakery is expected to open a DeForest location later this year after a development agreement for a location at 100 E. Holum St. was approved by the Villa…

Based on the recommendation of the late Aldo Leopold, Maggie Chilsen of Madison decided she should give hunting a try.

Government Accountability Board tightens procedures while complaining that Gov. Scott Walker's budget will weaken services to public.

Gov. Scott Walker did not compare Wisconsin protesters to ISIS or any other terrorist organization. What he said was any group, organization, or individual for that matter, who wants a fight c…

I'm happy the Department of Natural Resources is seriously considering selling naming rights to the state parks and forests. What's more appropriate than the “Georgia-Pacific State Forest at K…

I'd always heard that Gov. Scott Walker was a political junkie who kept abreast of the latest news developments and current events. After all, he is a career politician.

Gov. Scott Walker wants to correct the impression given by his comments last week, saying how he confronted 2011 protesters is his best example of how he can stand tough in a difficult situation.

I urge Fitchburg residents to support Mayor Shawn Pfaff in the April election.

The theft of more than $500,000 in Sun Prairie city funds by a trusted, longtime city department head was an "isolated incident" by someone whose job was a "highly specialized and technical po…

A man waiting for a bus on Madison's Southwest Side Wednesday morning was robbed at gunpoint, police said.

UW-Madison is now the second university in the state to be included in a growing probe of possible violations of federal law over the handling of sexual violence and harassment complaints, acc…

One person was injured and 11 people were displaced Wednesday by a fire at a Southwest Side apartment building, according to the Madison Fire Department.

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SMITHLAND, Iowa - Gale H. Volk, 67, of Smithland, Iowa, formerly of the Middleton/Madison area, died on Nov. 15, 2014.

WAUWATOSA / LAVALLE - Natalie S. Moritz, age 85, of Wauwatosa, formerly of LaValle, went to her heavenly home on March 1, 2015.

OREGON - Geraldine A. "Sue" Newton, age 87, of Oregon, passed away on Sunday, March 1, 2015, at Sienna Meadows in Oregon. She was born on May 26, 1927, in Madison, the daughter of Arthur and J…