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Senior Alison Hughes scored 26 points as first-place Janesville Craig crept closer to the Big Eight Conference girls basketball title with a 61-25 victory over host Madison Memorial on Friday night.

Junior guard Gavin Binger’s score as time expired lifted the host New Glarus boys basketball team to a 41-39 victory over Waterloo in a Capitol South Conference game Friday night.

Kelsey Card left her mark at the two-day Iowa State Classic in Ames.

The Deerfield boys basketball team kept its hopes alive for the Trailways South Conference title Friday night.

Sophomore forward Myriama Smith-Traore scored a career-high 30 points to lead the top-ranked Whitewater girls basketball team past visiting McFarland 62-45 in a Rock Valley Conference game Fri…

LAKE MILLS — Riley Lytle and his Poynette boys basketball teammates have had plenty of motivation to fuel the bid to repeat as Capitol North Conference champions this season.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Senior captain Blayre Turnbull continued her recent high-scoring ways Friday night.

The University of Wisconsin men's hockey team scored first Friday night, but dropped a 2-1 decision to host Ohio State.

Since I started visiting the Viking Dog Park near Stoughton more than five years ago, I have seen it change from being a living picture of wild flowers and butterflies to a weed-ridden hay fie…

The Marquette basketball program has parted ways with Sun Prairie High School senior Nick Noskowiak, freeing him to pursue a scholarship offer from almost any other NCAA institution.

Dane County filed a lawsuit Friday against the town of Madison, challenging several conditions the town is requiring before the county can obtain a building permit for a homeless day resource …

Paul Chryst doesn’t care if other schools use the University of Wisconsin’s high academic standards against the Badgers in recruiting.

Gov. Scott Walker's college knowledge gets questioned by a former Democratic Party official.

After a week of cutting expenses across its proposed 2015-16 budget, the University of Wisconsin athletic department felt it had no choice but to ask football fans for a helping hand.

The $2 billion budget deficit used to justify the massive cut to the University of Wisconsin System was manufactured by Gov. Scott Walker and his "conservative" Legislature. It wasn't some tax…

President Barack Obama recently spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast where he gave cover and comfort to our enemies by equating the fight against terrorists with the Crusades and the Spanish…

Scotty Walker spurns the truth

So much fuss is in the press now about measles and vaccinations. Earlier it was a handful of cases of Ebola in the United States.

Many thanks to last Saturday's letter about some ways to find efficiencies at UW. I would like to follow that lead and discuss savings for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.

Liberals make it seem as if federal student loans don’t cost taxpayers a penny. Some, notably Elizabeth Warren, are aghast that the government is profiting handsomely from lending to students.