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Because it’s nearly impossible to welcome in a new year without any baggage leftover from the previous 12 months, everything I had carefully planned to enjoy on New Year’s Eve day, was dismant…

This week's recipe won first place in the State Journal's international foods category in 1985 and was submitted by Janet Koletzke of Madison.

In 2007, when President Obama announced he was running for president, he did it in Springfield, Illinois, to highlight his supposed connection to Abraham Lincoln. He brought in his biggest fan…

The popular radio host celebrates three decades of "Whad'Ya Know?"

The president’s sweeping health care law isn’t going away anytime soon — not as long as the Democrats have veto or filibuster power.

There’s a huge difference between the Cowboys defense and the Seahawks’ No. 1 unit.

It averaged 44.4 million viewers on Fox. The New York Giants' upset of the Packers in 2012 drew 45.1 million viewers.

PRAIRIE DU SAC — It only took Mount Horeb junior forward Terek Nesheim about 10 seconds to turn the game around for the Vikings on Tuesday night.

Freshmen Erin Howard and Justice Filip combined for 31 points as the host Madison East girls basketball team pulled out a 54-47 victory over Sauk Prairie in non-conference play Tuesday.

Junior forward Wyatt Gallitz scored 27 points to lead the Waterloo boys basketball team to a 63-51 victory over visiting Cambridge in a Capitol South Conference game Tuesday night.

Senior forward Riley Rosemeyer scored 16 points to power Oregon as the visiting Panthers downed Monona Grove 53-39 in a Badger South Conference girls basketball game on Tuesday night to remain…

The Middleton boys hockey team kept its grip on the Big Eight Conference lead Tuesday night with a 5-1 victory over the host Janesville Bluebirds.

The DeForest boys basketball team held off a late Janesville Craig charge to pull out a 62-61 non-conference victory on the road Tuesday night.

Weeks after Dave Aranda and Joe Rudolph were expected to become Paul Chryst’s top football assistants at the University of Wisconsin, the hirings were made official.

For some programs, losing a senior point guard with as much moxie and experience as Traevon Jackson might be catastrophic.

When 15-year-old defenseman Tyler Inamoto came to check out the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey program last fall, he decided that his search for a collegiate landing spot had ended.

It was a frustrating feeling for Frank Kaminsky as the senior center for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team sat on the bench Sunday night and watched the Badgers lose their firs…

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Madison's Young Gifted and Black Coalition responded to criticism of the group from Police Chief Mike Koval on Tuesday.