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Residents of a Southwest Side neighborhood scrambled to protect their children and themselves Thursday when bullets started flying in what police believed was more gang-related violence in Madison.

It was a rare 3-D image that helped convince Georgia Ellenwood to leave British Columbia and cast her lot with the University of Wisconsin women’s track and field program.

At first glance, the nation’s jobs report for April appeared positive, until you looked below the surface — the already-disappointing job creation figures for March had to be adjusted downward…

Most of Watertown Regional Medical Center would be sold to a for-profit hospital chain based in Tennessee, under an agreement announced Thursday that requires states approval.

As the number of homicides continues to swell in Milwaukee — 54 compared with 18 at this time last year (as of last week) — so does the argument for a summit meeting of leaders from across the…

Three candidates elected Thursday to Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin’s board were endorsed by unions that expressed concern over the HMO’s substantial financial losses.

The Madison-connected band continues to make a name for itself playing traditional blues. 

“Last year was terrible,” Marian Ahnen, a ginseng and morel buyer in Readstown, said. “This year I purchased 125 pounds one Saturday, and now I have an order for 460 pounds and don’t know how …

The Madison School Board is reviewing its student discipline policy partially because of the student's case.

The new attraction, to be known as Livsreise, includes exhibits, a genealogy center and an auditorium.

Here’s an important website to bookmark on your Internet browser: WisconsinPublicNotices.org.

Director Paul Ashe looks back on three decades of the Community Meal Program.

The move is part of a gradual process to transition the town of Blooming Grove into the city of Madison.

For the first time ever, Syttende Mai, Stoughton’s big Norwegian heritage celebration, will include free evening musical acts both Friday and Saturday.

Dear Dr. Hanson: I think that my 4-month-old daughter may be teething. She doesn’t seem uncomfortable, but she’s been drooling a lot and has her hands in her mouth. Can you tell me a little ab…

Fitchburg’s annual celebration of Irish heritage, Fitchburg Days, is this weekend at McKee Farms Park, 2930 Chapel Valley Road. Hours are 5 p.m. to midnight Friday, 10 a.m. to midnight Saturda…

Over a lifetime in late-night television, David Letterman has seen, said and done many things. Chief among them, though, has been making us laugh.

MILWAUKEE — Few baseball observers were overly impressed when Milwaukee Brewers general manager Doug Melvin shipped right-hander Marco Estrada to Toronto for Adam Lind.

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