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State Journal columnist Tom Oates assesses the Packers' performance in Sunday's game against New England.

It hasn’t been unusual for UW-Whitewater football fans to wonder aloud how long the Warhawks would be able to keep coach Lance Leipold.

The Badgers split the first four matches but win five of the final six.

With Wisconsin nearing winter's grip, Madison B Cycle will begin removing its bike-sharing stations Monday.

The Packers force a missed field goal late in the fourth quarter and Aaron Rodgers clinches the victory with a clutch third-down pass to Randall Cobb.

Members of Beth Israel Center took to the streets of Madison Sunday to bring two Torah scrolls back to their sacred home.

Entering his second season as head coach of the McFarland girls basketball program, Pete Williquette knows expectations are higher than when he took over the program a year ago.

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Rep. John Jagler, R-Watertown, wants to revive his failed proposal for special-needs vouchers.

I am neither an accountant nor in the transportation business. However, I do own a car and drive city streets and, on occasion, the highways and byways of this and other states.

I applaud the State Journal’s Nov. 23 editorial “Vouchers need real accountability.” It rightfully directs politicians and taxpayers to pay careful attention to the results of the school vouch…

Many Wisconsinites are familiar with the controversial Gogebic Taconite mine proposed for northern Wisconsin. The mine became a political issue as conservative group Wisconsin Club for Growth …

Watching the coverage of the events in Ferguson, Missouri, has taken me back to Detroit in the summer of 1967. I lived and worked in the inner city when it burned. I realized that exactly the …

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is now in the business of picking energy technology winners and losers.

In September, I received an email that should have left me feeling vindicated.

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WASHINGTON — By now, most Americans probably have formed an opinion about what comedian Bill Cosby did or didn’t do sexually to or with at least 16 women beginning in the 1960s.

Dane County now offers a specialty court for troubled military veterans, to intervene before they hit a spiral of lifelong alcoholism, drug abuse and prison.

Craig Kittleson recently received a prestigious Jefferson Award, a national award for volunteerism and public service given on a regional level. 

The feds have temporarily closed down two of the country's biggest telemarketing computer "repair" operations. They did not make your computer run faster.