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The grant is aimed at helping reduce phosphorous and sediment loads that are slowing clean-up efforts of area lakes

The Walker administration has, to a large extent, returned to the fiscal difficulties of four years ago, a forecast by the state Department of Administration suggests.

Insurer accused of illegally setting rates on car insurance policy holders using factors unrelated to risk.

From the time she was in seventh grade, Dane County Circuit Judge Josann Reynolds knew one thing: She wanted to become a lawyer, and then a judge.

Salvatore's Tomato Pies makes a good case for believing the hype. Welcome to Madison, Sal.

Dear Dr. Hanson: My 15-month-old son just started at a daycare center this fall, and I feel as though he’s been sick with a runny nose since then. I’m concerned that it seems he can’t get heal…

As miserable as the members of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball felt at the time, they believe a brutal 19-day stretch that cost the Badgers a Big Ten Conference title last season …

The long-time Brewers owner will end his 22-plus years in charge of the game when he is succeeded by Rob Manfred on Jan. 25.

Senior guard Quardell Young scored on a driving layup with 1.5 seconds left, and the second-ranked UW-Whitewater men’s basketball team denied host UW-Eau Claire’s upset bid with a 62-61 victor…

GREEN BAY — When the Green Bay Packers saw Russell Wilson as an NFL rookie in 2012, the former University of Wisconsin quarterback was considered little more than a curiosity.

The University of Wisconsin announced the hiring of five position coaches Wednesday, minutes before the school held an introductory news conference for offensive coordinator Joe Rudolph and de…

It’s the nature of the beast that new University of Wisconsin football coach Paul Chryst is already taking flak from impatient fans.

The powder blue throat of this fish and the similarly-pigmented lower half of the gill cover is the characteristic from which the name bluegill originated.

A Democrat said the proposal, part of a state economic development agency merger, "flies in the face of reason."

Joe Rudolph was momentarily lost when walking through the University of Wisconsin’s athletic facilities Wednesday.

The demands made on the Madison Police Department by the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition show a significant level of naivety. This lack of knowledge is at least in part due to the negative i…

The appropriate public response to former La Crosse Bishop Raymond Burke’s astonishingly offensive remarks scapegoating women’s rights advocates for the Catholic Church’s egregious failure to …

Now that local elections are coming up, it's time to demand candidates take stands on some issues.

A front-page article in Monday's State Journal reported the solidarity march in France attended by the leaders from 40 nations. They stood against terrorism across the world.

In light of the terrorist attack in Paris, detachment borne of distance may be somewhat comforting -- but it should not leave any of us comfortable in our relative isolation, and certainly nev…