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When it comes to student debt, there's no competition: Wisconsin is the runaway winner.

Democrats propose a modified version based on a model used in GOP-led Iowa, which would save $241 million.

It’s the third weekly honor this season for Kaminsky, who shared the award with Maryland’s Dez Wells.

Even the decision to be in charge of a unit is up for debate among students.

The Badgers (23-2, 11-1 Big Ten) take an eight-game winning streak into Wednesday night's game at Penn State.

Sifting through the proposed 2015-17 state budget, it’s easy to find things to criticize. One area we should be praising is the fact that shared revenue for municipalities such as Racine was n…

Homicide charges are expected to be filed next week against a state prison inmate who allegedly strangled his cellmate to death in Portage on Thursday.

WASHINGTON — To borrow a popular question from the swing era, “So you want to lead a band?”

Sanders recently completed a 10-game suspension for violating the league's anti-drug program but has not returned to the team and is not expected to play for Milwaukee again, ESPN's Marc Stein…

International films come to Beloit, with more to follow in Madison and beyond

I was two sentences into this column when the fire pager went off. I had just done the morning chicken chores and was going to compose a piece deciphering the animal tracks I saw in the fresh …

It's still unknown who will be on the hook to replace the uninterruptible power supply, a roomful of batteries that power a data center on Dayton Street.

This season appears destined to break last year’s record as the “warmest” winter since records began in 1948-49..

The 11th annual Madison Winter Festival used 90 truckloads of man-made snow to create the race track around the state Capitol, according to the event's director. 

A number of Madison attorneys gave their time helping Central American refugees in family detention centers in New Mexico and Texas. 

Award: McFarland High School will receive $2,500 from Liberty Mutual Insurance as part of its Play Positive Pledge program. The school rallied parents, coaches and supporters to pledge their c…

After losing a tight game to UAB on Saturday, the University of Wisconsin softball team closed out play at the Islander Invitational in Corpus Christi, Texas, in similar fashion Sunday morning…

A scant 6 minutes into the game, it looked like yet another double-digit runaway for the fifth-ranked University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team.

LINCOLN, Neb. — The University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team ran out of comebacks Sunday as the Badgers fell to No. 22 Nebraska 70-63 in a Big Ten Conference game.