Wisconsin State Journal Local News

With four individual championships and five other top-three finishes, the Stoughton wrestling team powered through the 32-team field Tuesday to win the two-day Mid-States Classic at UW-Whitewater.

Senior guard Emily Bergum made three of her four 3-point baskets in the fourth quarter Tuesday to help the Middleton girls basketball team rally for a 59-50 victory over Waunakee in a consolat…

Record: 11-14.

The University of Wisconsin football team has played in 25 bowl games in its history and that translates to a lot of intriguing details.

TAMPA, Fla. — Time hasn’t healed the wounds, not by a long shot.

Peter Barca, a Kenosha Democrat, announced committee assignments Tuesday ahead of the upcoming session, which begins Jan. 7.

TAMPA, Fla. — Konrad Zagzebski knows he has already played his last football game.

Mayor's proposed request for proposals would require a hotel for Monona Terrace but no public money for non-parking elements of project.

I hope this is the year when people will stop dumping chemicals into the environment we all share.

A Madison police officer did not shoot an armed white man during a recent standoff.  That is really good news. 

The State Journal published "The Christmas Story as told by St. Luke" on its front page Christmas Day.

No person should have to live under any type of dictatorship. Everyone should be able to choose where and when they want to go, and what they want to do. No individual has the right to run oth…

Is it any wonder Lee Monthei of Enbridge Energy would talk about safety in his recent guest column?

Madison's justice system has a serious problem. The police seem to have a bad habit of aggressively pursuing charges for committing crimes against the college students and the middle or upper …

Call it a rubber match.

Bail was set Tuesday at $3,000 for an 18-year-old man arrested after police said he shot his 14-year-old cousin while the two of them were playing with a gun on Friday at a South Side apartment.

Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh can play in Detroit's wild-card game after his one-game NFL suspension was reduced to a $70,000 fine.

MADISON - Robert Clift, age 67, of Madison, died Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2014, at the Stoughton Hospital.

MADISON - Joseph Polansky Jr., "José" to his friends and acquaintances, age 83, died on Saturday, Dec. 27, 2014, at Madison's University Hospital. He was born in Binghamton, N.Y., on Aug. 13, 1931.

MONONA - Suzanne "Suzi" Duhr, age 65, of Monona, passed away peacefully, on Saturday, Dec. 27, 2014, at her home.