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Wisconsin voters have agreed to change the state constitution to prevent the state transportation fund from being siphoned to pay for other needs.

The Dodgeville plan would have built a high school and closed a rural elementary school.

Conservative Republican state Sen. Glenn Grothman won Wisconsin's only open U.S. House seat to succeed the more moderate Tom Petri.

Gov. Scott Walker won his third governor’s race in four years Tuesday, giving him a second term to overhaul state government with fellow Republicans.

The problem is fishermen get so fired up to go out that they sometimes forget the basic rules of safety when venturing onto the ice. 

Joanne McCormick, 80, said she got her ballot, then was shuttled into another line. When she got to the front of that line, "a man told me, 'Just put your ballot in this machine,'" McCormick s…

Columbia County authorities on Tuesday identified the woman killed in a crash Monday afternoon as a 22-year-old mail carrier.

Pope Francis recently compromised Biblical authority by suggesting the Big Bang and evolution don’t contradict the Biblical account of creation.

The Madison Forestry Department last year published a list of possible responses to emerald ash borer. Now that emerald ash borer is here, forestry has chosen the largest and most expensive of…

At 81 years of age, I should be out in the yard raking leaves, because it is beneficial for an old fart to have a bit of exercise.

America, stop worrying about Ebola. Your chances of getting it are unimaginably small. You are worrying about the wrong things.

I'm responding the Monday letter "Vouchers benefit the poor and middle class." In fact, the majority of voucher funds have gone to parents whose children are already enrolled in a private scho…

I am a student at UW-River Falls. On campus I notice a sign stating the university bans guns on the premise. Every time I pass the sign, I only think about the threat to our communities from d…

There’s ample evidence that says rebuilding Purdue is one of the most improved football teams in the Big Ten Conference this season. You just have to seek it out.

With two daughters on the team, coach Yvette Updike hopes her Hillmen can make history at state tournament

The former office manager for a Madison dental office allegedly took more than $166,000 in cash and checks from the office over a four-year period, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday.

Founded in 2010, SHINE also has a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy. 

The polls close at 8 p.m.

Jeffrey C. Hilgers, 42, of Madison, who worked in the Dane County Jail, is charged with second-degree sexual assault for having a sexual relationship with a jail inmate who was confined to her…