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The last firearm deer season of the year will be a Holiday Hunt in that will open in the southern farmland zone. 

WASHINGTON — The lone wolf is the new national nightmare, dramatized and amplified this week by the hostage-taking attack in Sydney, Australia. But there are two kinds of lone wolves — the cra…

The athletic director reached out to the former UW player and assistant the day Gary Andersen said he was leaving.

Last week we lost another young adult to an auto accident. He was not wearing a seat belt.

Why do banks and credit unions give us such low interest rates on our Certificates of Deposit. Before 2008, we were getting 3 percent to 5 percent on the CDs and money market accounts we had w…

Since the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, it’s been clear the 1 percent are buying elections left and right. The Koch brothers spent hundreds of millions dollars in 2014 and, un…

The nation again has been thrown into self-flagellation over the release of the U.S. Senate report on the CIA’s use of coercive tactics to get intelligence from captured jihadists who declared…

Republican Rep. Chris Kapenga felt it was "not right" that his first paycheck as a unionized electrical contractor included a deduction for union dues. Did he also complain to that same compan…

Here is a simple way to determine whether the CIA tortured:

Civilized society should not torture

Adam Smith expected the interview process for the football coach opening at Madison Memorial High School might be unique.

The state is seeking developers for the project, which was approved by the State Building Commission in March 2013.

2013-2014 SEASON IN REVIEW

2013-14 FINISH

A late-season loss already knocked Green Bay off-stride, and the hungry Packers know they can't afford to stumble again against the lowly Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Barry and Bucky's gift to Badgers fans this year is a new football coach, longtime Wisconsin offensive coordinator Paul Chryst. Most people seem very excited the move.    

The assistant dean of discipline at a rural Edgerton private school was charged Thursday with sexual assault for improperly touching a 14-year-old student last week, according to a criminal complaint.

MADISON - Dorothy L. (Pine) Egener, age 81, died peacefully on Dec. 16, 2014, at Agrace HospiceCare, surrounded by her loving family. Dorothy was born on Nov. 19, 1933, to Maurice and Loretta …

MADISON - Mary Kathleen Randall was born to Kathleen (Watson) and Emery Randall, M.D., on Nov. 25, 1948, in Boscobel.

MOUNT HOREB - Arlene Disrud, age 91, of Mount Horeb, Wis., died on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014, at Ingleside Nursing Home. Funeral arrangements are pending at Ellestad Camacho Funeral Home, 500 N…