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Jordan Lutz hit five 3-pointers, including one that put the UW-Stevens Point men’s basketball team ahead for good in Wednesday night’s second half, and the host Pointers beat top-ranked UW-Whi…

MINNEAPOLIS — The University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team had its second-best offensive game of the season Wednesday night.

Former Milwaukee Brewers second baseman Rickie Weeks signed a free agent contract with the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday night.

Stoughton senior Nick McGlynn surpassed 1,000 points in his outstanding prep career last Friday in the Vikings' 47-36 victory over Oregon in a Badger South Conference game.

The Bucks enter the All-Star break having won nine of their past 11 games.

Madison's Transit and Parking Commission will consider regulations for ride-hailing smartphone apps at a March 11 meeting.

The driver, a 17-year-old Fitchburg girl, was killed when her Honda Accord left the roadway, became airborne and collided with a tree, the sheriff's office said.

The breakfast staple also becomes a supper-time meal as the Lenten season nears.

If presidential hopeful Gov. Scott Walker wants any realistic chance of securing the Republican nomination, he may want to show more patience and judgment. Though it is still very early in the…

I found the multiple opinion pieces about the measles and the pushing of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to be quite hysterical (in both senses of the word). As a measles survivor, I'd …

I’ve always been frustrated with liberals who consider the enumerated rights they enjoy to be sacrosanct, but anything a conservative wants must be controlled.

I come from a long line of hunters and gun owners. I owned a .22-caliber rifle myself when I was a teenager. I am not an alarmist on gun issues. But enough is enough.

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals ruled that whistleblowers must divulge information, not just raise concerns, to get protection from retaliation under the law. 

Technical writers who worked at Verona-based medical software maker Epic Systems are owed overtime pay that was not given to them, according to federal lawsuits filed this week against the company. 

Cuba City senior Chloe Pustina reached the 1,000 points milestone when she scored 8 points in Cuba City's 63-29 victory over Iowa-Grant on Feb. 5.  . 

The increase, from $45 to $48 per seat, comes in the wake of chancellor Rebecca Blank's request  that the Athletic Department up its annual services contributions to campus. 

Complaints about telemarketing and telecommunications remained in top categories of consumer concerns logged by the state in 2014. And prepare yourself for identity theft, warned state experts.

Presidential hopeful Scott Walker is currently on a trade mission to London. 

FITCHBURG - Robert J. "Bob" Sweeney Sr., born on Aug. 17, 1927, to John Reginald Sweeney and Nellie M. (McCloskey) Sweeney in Madison, Wis., died peacefully surrounded by his wife and family o…

WAUPUN - James B. Schneiter, age 32, of Waupun, passed away on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015, at his home.