Wisconsin State Journal Local News

MIDDLETON — This season, Madison Memorial boys basketball coach Steve Collins grew accustomed to tight, back-and-forth games, when big shots down the stretch determined the outcomes.

INDIANAPOLIS — Road success that has been instrumental in Milwaukee’s surprising resurgence this season is suddenly elusive.

A fourth-quarter burst Thursday night lifted the Madison East boys basketball team to within one victory of a WIAA Division 1 state tournament berth.

Thursday’s results

ASHWAUBENON — Fall Creek held off a late charge from Marathon to pull out a 56-51 victory in a WIAA Division 4 state girls basketball semifinal Thursday night.

ASHWAUBENON — The chant by the Fond du Lac St. Mary’s Springs student section of “You can’t stop her” grew louder and louder as senior Kelli Schrauth proceeded to score a game-high 25 points o…

A forum pitting Mayor Paul Soglin against challenger Ald. Scott Resnick and hosted by an African-American organization Thursday night stayed largely tame and noncontroversial.

After a long winter and days of inactivity, the exercise that you get from searching the woods and valleys for sheds is welcomed by most of us.

Common muskrats are large, furry rodents with equally long tails and partially webbed hind feet that they use as paddles to swim forward and backward with relative ease.

WASHINGTON — She burned the tapes.

Junior Hannah Whitish, who is in her third state tournament, scored a game-high 25 points as Barneveld jumped out a 16-2 lead and never looked back, beating Fall River 66-34 at the Resch Center.

Taxpayers beware. We are about to be saddled with nearly $2 billion in unnecessary long-term debt by the governor and Legislature. They hope we will be distracted by other things such as right…

I always believed U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, was an ineffective senator with his incoherent ramblings about Benghazi and his far-right stance on everything else. But I never thought he …

Where were the chants "black lives matter" when that young man was acting erratically and jumping in and out of traffic?

Not everyone who volunteers will be allowed to take the buyout. Those who do will be given a one-time payout of half their base salary, Schmidt said.

The state's flagship job creation agency has had trouble tracking loans and is looking for its fifth CFO in four years.

Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel said Thursday that results of the investigation into the Madison police shooting of Tony Robinson should be turned over to Dane County District Attorney…

Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to shift control of the University of Wisconsin System away from the state and onto a public authority controlled by the Board of Regents met significant turbulenc…

A Madison man was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in federal prison for traveling to Canada in 2013 to meet a 15-year-old boy for sex.

JOHNSON CREEK - Jay B. Logan, age 82, of Johnson Creek, passed away on March 10, 2015, at his home in Johnson Creek. He was born on July 1, 1932, in Washington, Iowa, to Al and De Ina (Buhrman…