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Lorenz and Steck earn 10th place at recent national high school competition in Missouri.

Here's how members of Wisconsin's congressional delegation voted on major issues this week.

A 79-year-old Madison man knew a scam when he heard it this week, not going along when a caller claiming to be his granddaughter told him she was in trouble and needed money right away.

Kleppe's selection still must be approved by the school board in May. He would replace Travis Rohrer, who resigned in January.

A Madison man who told a candy wrapper tosser "I believe you dropped this" while handing the wrapper back to the tosser was knocked out for this courtesy, by a friend of the tosser.

In the polarized environment of modern American politics, there aren't many things that liberals and conservatives agree on. But they should be able to join hands and lift their voices in unison to say, ''Bernie Sanders will not do.''

The Packers are favored in 15 of their 16 regular-season games in 2016.

The journey toward a more perfect union was quickened with the announcement that Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, Union spy and activist for women’s suffrage, will grace the front of the $20 bill. The Tubman twenty will be unveiled in 2020, timed…

A former Marshall man being sought for an alleged homicide in Stevens Point in March has been arrested in Colorado.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The daughter of a jogger killed in a drunken crash has filed a lawsuit against a university adviser who had been texting with the driver. The woman contends the adviser offered to counsel her in an…

The cadaverous image presented by Fidel Castro on the closing day of the Communist Party Congress in Havana mirrors the decrepit state of the Cuban government, as well as its increasingly bleak future. Like Marxist ideology, the 89-year-old Castro looked…

The driver, who reportedly was driving erratically earlier on Highway M and refused to stop for a Dane County deputy, kept going after striking the girls, hit other vehicles before the truck became disabled, and was taken into custody at…

A one-block stretch of West Main Street in Downtown Madison will be closed on Monday so work can be done on an adjacent building.

OUR VIEW: Rather than speculating over what happened between an officer and student, the public can see and hear for itself

Oregon officials are nearing a deal to provide tax increment financing for the village's first hotel, while an established Oregon business is seeking TIF to relocate within the village.

Halloumi and I first met at a pub. The slab of salty cheese was battered, fried and served with mushy peas. Terribly British.

Dear Doc: I have a family history of colon cancer. My mom died from it, as did her mother and her sister. I get a colonoscopy every five years. I’ve had a few polyps, none of which were cancerous. Whew!

Perhaps you’ve noticed it’s an election year.

Make a beeline Sunday to Bos Meadery and Restoration Cider, 849 E. Washington St., for their first annual Bees of Spring bluegrass festival.