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An official guide explained the meaning of the bas-reliefs around the rotunda, but the chiefs saw different things than their host.

So much for higher pay leading to greater competition for Madison City Council seats.

Political observers are still trying to figure out what President Barack Obama’s game is a week after his State of the Union address. That’s because rhetorically and substantively, he seems to…

Now Wilson can become the eighth starting QB to win consecutive Super Bowls, and the first since Brady did it 10 years ago.

The Stanford grad sat on his perch for 60 minutes Tuesday, and would have gladly sat for 60 more, answering questions about everything from his back-and-forth with Kraft to the kind of reality…

EVANSVILLE - On Jan. 23, 2015, Shirley Gene Wilde passed away peacefully in Stoughton at the age of 90, where she had been a resident from the early 1950s to the late 1960s, before moving to C…

HOLLANDALE - Patricia "Pat" Olson, age 88, of Hollandale, died, surrounded by her family, on Monday evening, Jan. 26, 2015, at the Upland Hills Nursing & Rehab Center in Dodgeville.

This week's recipe received honorable mention in the State Journal's entrees for two category in 1979 and was submitted by Mrs. Frank P. Roberts of Madison.

Junior forward J.T. Parish and junior guard Brenden Jarlsberg combined for 51 points, nearly outscoring the opposition by themselves, as Cambridge defeated host Wisconsin Heights 65-55 in a Ca…

A second-quarter fight led to four ejections — three of them Wisconsin Dells players — and the absences played a role in the Chiefs’ 44-42 loss to visiting Wautoma in a South Central Conferenc…

Senior guard Elizabeth Norregaard scored 14 points and freshman Bria Lemirande had 12 points as Middleton defeated host Kenosha St. Joseph 59-54 in a non-conference girls basketball game Tuesd…

The annual Sun Prairie Groundhog Tournament opened Tuesday with the traditional first-round games that double up as conference contests for the eight participating teams.

Katie Meriggioli sparked a mid-game run that carried Madison Edgewood to a 49-31 victory over host Monroe in a Badger South Conference girls basketball game on Tuesday night.

COLUMBUS – Poynette boys basketball coach John Weiss brought a team loaded with scoring punch to Columbus on Tuesday night.

MIAMI — Jason Kidd’s wins against Miami keep piling up.

The United Way of Dane County will spend $6.8 million for education, $6.4 million for anti-poverty programs and $4.9 million for health-related initiatives.

Trail-cams today shoot full-color video and high-resolution digital photos up to 20 megabytes in size. They’re stored on computers and catalogued for fast retrieval and viewing. 

One good location to take the kids in southern Wisconsin is Brittingham Park in downtown Madison’s Triangle area.

While the green-and-gold flu epidemic spread throughout Packer Nation last week, everyone was pointing fingers as to where to direct the blame for the meltdown. It seemed like everyone was wea…

Realizing Gov. Scott Walker is no friend to education, I braced myself for cuts to the University of Wisconsin System, especially given the Walker regime’s deficit problem. I would have guesse…