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With close to 200 Wisconsin residents already hospitalized with the flu this season, state health officials are urging people to get vaccinated as one of the best ways to protect yourself from…

There’s a new classy casual restaurant called Doolittles on East Towne Boulevard that I’ve visited four times in the past month to make sure I wasn’t dreaming because this was a place my retir…

If you are a Janesville business owner and get a phone call telling you the power to your business will be cut off within the hour because of unpaid bills, it's a scam.

Vulgar chanting turned Wisconsin’s nationally televised basketball game against Duke last week into an R-rated event.

This week marks the anniversary of the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 1862.

Nine males were accused of being part of a heinous rape. The alleged injustice fomented a mob mentality. An enraged community wanted to skip any talk of a serious investigation, never mind a t…

Forty years ago next season, three young Madison girls, and their coach, George Vukelich, struck down a baseball barrier.

With a short week and what he sees as a very difficult road game Sunday at Buffalo — a place where the Packers have never won in five tries — Mike McCarthy made it clear he was moving on Tuesday.

Tony Carlini still gets a little wistful when he talks about his daughter Lauren’s decision to give up playing softball as an eighth-grader.

Less than a month after winning the Horizon League tournament as a No. 5 seed, the school learned it would be punished for low Academic Performance Rate scores.

The challenge for coaches will be keeping their teams sharp during what could be a long break between the end of the Big Ten tournament and the start of the NCAA tournament.

A fast start led to a happy finish for the McFarland boys basketball team Tuesday night.

Junior Abby Monis scored 20 points as the host Lakeside Lutheran girls basketball team stayed perfect and sent Cambridge to its first defeat of the season, 53-38, in a non-conference game Tues…

OKLAHOMA CITY — Kevin Durant’s first home game of the season spelled bad news for the Milwaukee Bucks.

Sophomore Estella Moschkau scored 28 points and sophomore guard Katie Meriggioli had 20 points Tuesday night to lead the Madison Edgewood girls basketball team to a 67-59 victory over visiting…

Jordan Allen, Erik Doll, Alex Kimmel, Ben McDade, Marek Oseth and Shane Sackett each contributed to three victories as the host Monona Grove boys swimming team won the Badger South Conference …

MARSHALL — Adam Link tried to steady himself.

Keegan Ford understands how strange it looks that he’s decided to leave the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team midway through the season.

High voltage transmission won't foster a green future, but it will put some green in the pockets of companies such as the American Transmission Company.

It saddened me to read the article "Little Norway fades into time" in Sunday's State Journal. It is a historical site and should be preserved by public and/or private funds.