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Rebecca Katzenmeyer opened the school in 2005.

When it's sunny in winter in Madison, that usually means temperatures will be frigid, and that's the case this week.

Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation recently created the Daniel Carey Community Scholars Fund.

C2 Solutions, made up of seven regional firms, is the nation's fifth-largest privately held benefits company.

A person firing a handgun into the air early Saturday on the Southwest Side appears to be the seventh gunfire incident reported in Madison and Fitchburg last weekend, police said.

The Badgers (12-1), led by Big Ten player of the week Frank Kaminsky, open the Big Ten season vs. Penn State Wednesday at the Kohl Center.

A woman who allegedly left a West Side grocery store without paying for her groceries struck a store employee when he suggested she come back into the store to resolve the issue, police reported.

A Madison man who crashed his car into a tree on the West Side on Saturday was arrested for allegedly using heroin, police reported.

A Madison woman who chased after a woman who took her purse was stopped in her tracks when the suspect threatened her with a handgun, police reported.

Monona Grove holds No. 1 spot in Division 2 rankings

When free bus rides on New Year's Eve started in Madison, a good many of the revelers who will be going out Wednesday night were still in diapers.

Students in the Oregon School District will be under the microscope, literally, over the next three years, to see if absenteeism for influenza is an early predictor for an outbreak in a community.

Two people were hurt Sunday night in a two-vehicle crash in Dodge County, with one of the victims flown by medical helicopter to a hospital.

On Christmas Day in 2008, I attended early-morning Mass at the Al Qaleb Al Aqdas (Sacred Heart) Church, in the Karrada district of Baghdad.

The University of Wisconsin offensive coordinator was hired to the same post at Vanderbilt, multiple outlets reported Sunday night.

Party on a Wednesday?

The technique gets raves from practitioners, who credit it with allowing them to be more resilient to stress.

A massive undertaking, the modern-day Saint John's Bible is focus of new Chazen Museum of Art exhibition.

The Madison School District has spent about $5.2 million in the last five years on the program that provides extra reading instruction for first graders who have low proficiency in reading.

During the early December thaw we were preparing for a family trip (which is to say roaring around trying to cram a week’s worth of to-dos into a single afternoon) when I found myself needing …