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There’s no disgrace in what happened to the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team Friday night, but there’s no solace, either.

If deer hunting is just about setting records for license sales, body counts and success rates, it’s time to declare the 1990s as Wisconsin’s golden age and move onto a new era with different …

It turns out University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez was serious when he told reporters the next football coach he hired would be his last.

They say the hours they put into the case were driven up by the state's aggressive defense of the now overturned constitutional amendment.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The University of Wisconsin volleyball team knew it would face a nail-biter of a match at some point during its NCAA tournament run. It just came a little sooner than anyone…

Lancaster senior Andrew Gates has signed a letter of intent to enroll at Clarke University next fall and join the Crusaders’ men’s golf program.

Here's how members of Wisconsin's congressional delegation voted on major issues this week. 

I can't stop thinking about the rhesus macaque monkey maternal deprivation studies at UW-Madison. It makes me terribly sad to think of the suffering inflicted on these baby monkeys and their mothers.

Monday night while watching the Green Bay Packers play I saw an ad from Bergstrom Cadillac with Barry Alvarez in it. At the end of the ad he said "merry Christmas."

Madison seems like a nice place to live, study and play athletics.

Is anyone surprised by coach Gary Andersen's abrupt departure? It didn't take a Rhodes scholar to see he was not happy at UW-Madison.

I played a lot of football. I even played in college in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics over 50 years ago. My how it has changed.

I am neither a conservative nor a liberal. I like to think I'm a progressive and forward-thinking person, doing what is best for the majority, the less fortunate and the country. That makes me…

One Million Cups aims to help entrepreneurs network and collaborate.

An appeals court on a 2-1 ruling had upheld Kelly Rindfleisch's conviction for doing campaign work while working for Walker in Milwaukee County.

T. Wall Properties is proposing about 180 apartment units at the busy intersection.

Local drug investigators seized hundreds of marijuana plants from a Southwest Side home on Thursday.

DEFOREST - Duane D. "Swede" Sigurslid, age 80, was born on July 12, 1934, to Olaus and Thelma (Thompson) Sigurslid in the pink house on Holum Street in DeForest. He died on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014.

STOUGHTON - Billy Frank Roybal, age 78, passed away on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014, at Stoughton Hospital. He was born on Aug. 29, 1936, in Santa Fe, N.M., the son of Vidal and Mary (Gonzales) Roybal.

BELLEVILLE / NEW GLARUS - Grant C. Slotten, age 87, of New Glarus, and former resident of the Town of Primrose, passed away on Friday, Dec. 12, 2014, at St. Mary's Hospital in Madison.