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Wisconsin is wise to pursue improving technology — in cars and at treatment clinics — to fight its drunken driving scourge.

To eradicate wolves, the County Board set a bounty of $3 on their skins. But they quickly reduced it to $1 after estimating the number of wolves and calculating the cost to taxpayers.

The marquee matchup is in the post between Kaminsky and Okafor as No. 2 UW hosts No. 4 Duke at 8:30 p.m. in an ACC/Big Ten Challenge game.

The No. 2 Badgers play No. 4 Duke in an ACC/Big Ten Challenge game at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Kohl Center.

Waunakee graduate Jacob Ohnesorge was among 10 players on the South Dakota State University football team who were named to the all-Missouri Valley Football Conference Team as announced Monday.

Amid concerns that a downsized hotel would remain costly to taxpayers, but fall short of meeting Monona Terrace's needs, the City Council moved toward reopening the massive Judge Doyle Square …

There’s no arguing the point: Madison East’s Keyshawn Justice made an eye-opening debut on the prep boys basketball scene Tuesday night.

The Madison West boys hockey team scored the game’s final four goals Tuesday to pull out a 5-1 victory over host Sun Prairie in the teams’ Big Eight Conference opener.

Cassidy Byrd scored 14 of her 21 points in the second half to lead DeForest to a 52-36 victory over host Portage in a Badger North Conference girls basketball game Tuesday night.

CLEVELAND — The Milwaukee Bucks gave the Cleveland Cavaliers all they could handle Tuesday night.

The Silver Eagles junior guard scores 17 points and MG takes command in the second quarter and never lets up.

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Exactly two years after his breakout on a national stage in the 2012 Big Ten Championship game, Melvin Gordon won his first of many awards that will accompany one of the best seasons for a run…

It has been said one person can make a difference. It usually means in a good way. On Aug. 9, Michael Brown, the teenager shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri, made at least two bad choices t…

Previous budgets forwarded by U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, and his committee have transferred billions of dollars from the middle and lower classes to the wealthiest citizens.

Enbridge Energy, a Canadian company, wants control over the rules on a pipeline that runs through our land.

As the ashes settle in Ferguson, Missouri, all that seemingly remains are two grotesque and diametrically-opposed caricatures of American society.

The article about the Waunakee manure digester in Friday's State Journal, "DNR: Manure plant polluting air," begs the question: Shouldn't all digesters monitor for air emissions, because they …

Every year someone from Dane County writes about the boorish behavior of Badgers fans toward visitors. The letter from Saturday's State Journal "Badgers fans should respect visitors" points ou…