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Wisconsin police departments can release full accident and incident reports with drivers' information without running afoul of federal privacy laws, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday, but a top law enforcement official says the decision could cause delays in processing…

Five of the UW System's 13 universities have now seen professors approve no confidence votes against Ray Cross and the UW Board of Regents.

I started my career at UW-Madison 15 years ago, and I’ve been here ever since. I care deeply about the welfare of this university. Though I’ve been offered jobs elsewhere, a sense of loyalty has kept me here.

FORT ATKINSON - How lucky our family is to have celebrated mom's 98th birthday and give her our love on Mother's Day. The angels then whisked Florence away on May 9, 2016.

LIVINGSTON - Aaron A. Gregory, age 32, of Livingston, Wis., passed away on Saturday, May 7, 2016.

DEFOREST - Geraldine F. "Gerry" Cooper, age 88, passed away, with her husband and son present, on Tuesday, May 10, 2016, at Waunakee Manor. She was born on June 18, 1927, to Louis and Frieda (Lintner) Sommer in the Town…

The latest batch of showers and thunderstorms coming to southern Wisconsin is expected Wednesday night, ahead of a little warmup on Thursday, then cooler temperatures for the weekend.

Mismanaged countries are swinging away from leftist leaders who slowed economies slow to crawl

St. Louis Blues goaltender and former University of Wisconsin standout Brian Elliott will start Game 7 against the Dallas Stars in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs tonight.

The victim in Tuesday evening's fatal shooting was a friend of Martez Moore, the man shot to death in April outside O'Grady's Pub on the Far West Side, according to police and family members.

The list of Wednesday's weather-related varsity prep sports event postponements, as gathered from official conference scheduling websites at 1 p.m.:

Jenkins is the third two-time honoree in UW's program history.

Card broke the Big Ten record in the shot put with a mark of 18.56 meters and set a facility record in the discus at 61.71 meters at the Wisconsin Twilight.

Some see tenure as guaranteeing a "job for life", but it's not as secure as being a legislator in a gerrymandered safe district.

A sixth area Domino's Pizza location is poised to open on the East Side where Harold's Chicken Shack had a run last year.

A UW-Madison professor of nursing and industrial engineering has been named the director of the world's largest biomedical library.

Salade nicoise was the first recipe I made when I lived in France, a country that later would become my second home as an adult.

At La Dulce in Royal Oak, Michigan, a Spanish tapas restaurant, this tortilla de patata is one of the house specialties. Tortilla de patata is a Spanish omelet made with potatoes.

Work on a Downtown hotel will force the closing of a one-block stretch of West Main Street on Thursday.

The DMV will issue receipts for those seeking a photo ID who can't produce documentation in time for an election.