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MILTON — Stoughton’s wrestlers were confident they could leave Saturday’s conference tournament with a share of the Badger South crown, but even they didn’t expect this.

The worrisome news overshadowed the good news that came from the DeForest girls basketball team’s 56-39 victory at Wausau West on Saturday.

Senior forward Will Kellerman scored seven of his 10 points in the final quarter as the Verona boys basketball team overcame two technical fouls and held off visiting DeForest 56-50 in non-con…

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Wild forward Matt Cooke will miss the next six weeks after undergoing surgery to address a sports hernia.

Strong free throw shooting and a double-digit halftime lead helped the Janesville Craig girls basketball team pick up a 59-40 Big Eight Conference victory over host Sun Prairie on Saturday night.

After scoring his collegiate career high of 15 points in a victory over Indiana Tuesday night, he came back with 16 in UW's 65-50 victory over stubborn but overmatched Northwestern in a Big Te…

MIDDLETON — When the close races began titling in their favor, Madison Memorial’s swimmers knew a special performance was in reach.

The first ever Wizard World Comic Con in Wisconsin attracted throngs of fantasy world fans to the Alliant Energy Center on Saturday.

Not that Corey Hart ... or that one

Coming up with ways to pay for highways, ports and other forms of transportation is a problem as old as the nation. 

It wasn’t the crispest effort of the season for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team, but victory was never in doubt for the No. 5 Badgers, either.

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Kudos to conservative professors James Baughman and John Sharpless for defending UW-Madison in the face of the severe cuts Gov. Scott Walker is proposing to the University of Wisconsin System.…

Gov. Scott Walker's budget move striking the Wisconsin Idea from the state statues is more than a cynical sucker punch to "Madison liberals." It is part of Walker's full-scale offensive on the…

I stand with Gov. Scott Walker on drug testing welfare recipients.

Paul Soglin is the incumbent in race for mayor of Madison, and yet his ideas seem so dated.

The University of Wisconsin men's hockey team has a goal disallowed while its winless streak reaches a record-setting 10 games.

Jimmy the Groundhog bites into this week’s caption contest

Gov. Scott Walker has cut funding for liberals favorite things in his proposed state budget. 

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin students will take a new kind of standardized test next month.