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Instead of counseling the local tribes, Father Louis Nicolas traveled around the Great Lakes hunting, observing wildlife and sketching plants.

After multiple problems with concussion, depression and other physical maladies, the Hornets senior is healing and happy.

The UW-Oshkosh men’s basketball team’s scoring defense was just a tad batter than UW-Platteville’s during the regular season.

Erin Chapados made her only shot of the game — a 3-pointer — with 27.1 seconds remaining to break a tie and propel the Edgerton girls basketball team to a 54-48 victory over host Beloit Turner…

Junior guard Calli Linse scored 24 points as host Jefferson edged McFarland 58-54 in a WIAA Division 2 girls basketball regional opener on Tuesday night.

Junior wing Brooke Roberts scored 19 points to lead sixth-seeded Randolph to a 63-57 upset victory on the road over third-seeded Hustisford in a WIAA Division 5 girls basketball regional opene…

The Madison Memorial boys hockey team stands one victory away from its first WIAA state tournament appearance since 2004.

Sophomore forward McKinley Righter scored a career-best 20 points, including eight in the first quarter, and host New Glarus pulled away from Darlington 49-40 in a WIAA Division 4 girls basket…

PLAYER OF THE GAME

Emily Kieck scores a game-high 15 points to lead the Thunderbirds.

Council members approved 13-7 North Central Group's plan for a 164-room Mariott AC hotel just off the Capitol Square at the corner of East Washington Avenue and North Webster Street.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team hit a pothole on the road to a Big Ten Conference title.

The Dane County Board's Public Protection Committee and the Judiciary and Health and Human Needs Committee held a joint public hearing Tuesday, which was heavily attended by members of the You…

Dr. Robert W. Huntington III, a forensic pathologist whose wit, theatricality and lack of pretension brought life to the grimmest of subjects, died Sunday at his home near Mazomanie, where he …

Building trades unions won't be able to postpone the effects of an open-shop law in Wisconsin by extending contracts, a top union official said.

Saturday's State Journal cartoon by Phil Hands depicting one of the Solidarity Singers or protesters or activists or whatever they choose to call themselves as best supporting actor in Gov. Sc…

I was upset to hear Rudy Guilliani say President Barack Obama doesn't love America or you or me, and that he wasn't brought up the same. 

If the way President Barack Obama treats U.S. veterans and the military is any example of his love of the United States, then there is no need for further discussion.

Allowing the formation of charter schools paid for with tax funds taken from school district budgets and functioning without district oversight is a travesty.

The "Right To Work For Less" legislation being fast-tracked this week will hurt Wisconsin as it has hurt every other state that has it.