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Madison’s complicated and fussy approval process for building projects won’t stop a stylish Downtown hotel from going up.

"I told her ... You killed my sisters and brothers and six million Jews ... I cursed them and they got, I think, scared."

Among the accomplishments of Dick Lindauer, who died earlier this month, was helping rescue the "coldest man alive" from Lake Wingra.

This week's recipe won first place in the State Journal's soups category in 1985 and was submitted by M. Susan Washa of Middleton.

Coach Judy Harms gives her Whitewater girls basketball team a theme for each new season.

MONONA — Monona Grove boys basketball coach Dan Zweifel has a simple way to measure his enjoyment for a season.

Jackson ‘unlikely’ to play in Big Ten tournament

To claim the Big Ten Conference tournament championship, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team will have to win in a venue where its dreams have been shattered over the years.

Stevens Point goaltender Janna Beilke-Skoug, a Madison East graduate, was named the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Player of the Year, as announced by the league on Friday.

The Waunakee standout sat out her junior season with a knee injury, but returned this season to lead the Warriors to state

A 25-year-old man was killed and his 27-year-old passenger was injured when the driver lost control.

AIKEN, S.C. — Eddie Wajda continues to build on his strong freshman season for the University of Wisconsin men’s golf team.

Deang Deang scores 14 points and Tre'vone Irby adds 13 to lead the Purgolders.

Lohse, projected as the opening day starter, allowed two hits and struck out four.

A smaller crowd of protesters demonstrated in front of City Hall Tuesday afternoon in response to the shooting of Tony Robinson by a Madison police officer.  

An unarmed 19-year-old African-American man was shot and killed Friday by a white police officer. This is the basic information that spreads like wildfire. But we cannot base our opinions and …

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, apparently wants a war with Iran so badly he is willing to commit what some might define as treason by taking part in the ill-advised open letter to Iranian leaders.

In what might not be a surprise for many cat owners, a new study finds that felines prefer music written exclusively for them.

Despite understandable anger over the slaying of an unarmed black teen by a white police officer, protests have been peaceful and for the most part respectful. 

With nearly 600 bikes sitting in storage, UW-Madison police are hoping that people who have had bikes stolen from them anywhere in Dane County will come forward and reclaim them.