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With a postseason matchup looming next week, St. Cloud State picked a good time to break out of its lengthy funk against the No. 4 University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team Friday at LaBahn Arena.

We should not continue to concentrate the power to make decisions about hunting, about conservation, about land ethic, in the hands of fewer and fewer people.It is quite likely that those few …

FocalCast, started by Edgewood High School grad Devin Turner, is part of a St. Louis tech accelerator program.

MINERAL POINT, Wis. (AP) — Cheese lovers are already lining up to lock in a nibble when a Wisconsin cheese maker releases a 20-year-old cheddar this summer.

It’s ironic that the Wisconsin Idea has been so successful it threatens its own existence.

I want to congratulate UW basketball coach Bo Ryan on his nomination to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

I’ve been trying to visualize a viable situation where our state’s 48-hour waiting period to purchase a gun would be a significant hardship. The letter in the Feb. 13 paper "Maybe abuse victim…

Juley, a setter from LaGrange, Illinois, spent one season with the Badgers after transferring from Long Beach State. She had one year of eligibility remaining.

Given how casually the Department of Natural Resources sometimes ignores its own science and historical data, no one should be surprised Gov. Walker and key legislators want to slash the DNR’s…

Also, Gov. Scott Walker gives reporters the silent treatment and WIBA loses a conservative commentator.

Dane County set a state record for corn production while Walworth County had a state-record yield. 

Median sales price was up 5 percent to $216,000.

STOUGHTON - Lorie M. Skeels, age 63, passed away at her home on Feb. 16, 2015. She was born on July 29, 1951, in Columbus, Wis., the daughter of Donald and Laverne (Haskins) Madsen. She met Do…

MADISON - Camille Aulik, age 57, passed away on Friday, Feb. 13, 2015, at her residence in Madison, Wis.

REEDSBURG / VERONA / PARDEEVILLE - Douglas A. Groy, age 55, died suddenly on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, after a snowmobile accident in Onieda County. He is survived by his children, Ryan Groy an…

Jessi Marti became the third Cuba City girls basketball player to surpass the 1,000-point mark this season when she scored 22 points in an 89-17 victory over Darlington Thursday night.  . 

Madison Area Technical College's Truax Campus is on lockdown Friday afternoon as police respond to a report of gunfire at a nearby building

Angry liberals are as responsible for Scott Walker's star power as his conservative policies. 

An Oregon man found slumped over in his car in a parking lot on Thursday was arrested for alleged child neglect because three small children were in the car, police reported.

Top prize is $10,000 from the Madison credit union's 6th annual financial competition.