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An avian influenza quarantine in Juneau County has been lifted after no new detections were found the past month, but state officials say it's not time to think the bird flu crisis has passed.

The additions bring the total to 46.

State workers’ main out-of-pocket health care costs will double next year, after the Group Insurance Board approved changes Tuesday to save $85 million over two years.

Christal Sheppard, director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Midwest Satellite Office in Detroit, will help kick off the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference at 8:30 a.m. June 2.

The award is given annually to the nation's top center.

Bethel Lutheran Church, which owns the house, will swing it to a different part of the same block.

Even as voucher availability has expanded, public schools remain the overwhelming choice of parents.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Black religious leaders in the Madison area are calling for the resignation of a white police officer who fatally shot a biracial teenager in Wisconsin's capital city.

Gabby Beauvais has broken and rebroken Monona Grove High School and Badger South Conference track and field records.

"14th Deadly Sin" tops this week's list.

Stanley, who was released from Froedtert Hospital on Monday, suffered a collapsed and punctured lung.

Senior Travis Lindquist pitched a five-inning no-hitter Monday, leading the Madison Memorial baseball team to a 15-1 rout of host Middleton in a Big Eight Conference game.

A prime hiring target for University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Mike Eaves is no longer in play and another apparent candidate appears to be in limbo.

The All-Star outfielder leads off the game with a homer and Mike Fiers delivers a solid outing against the Tigers.

First impressions, second thoughts and the third degree:

Faith leaders say the Madison police officer acted “irrationally and improperly” when he fatally shot Robinson on March 6.

Beloit Turner's Tessa Mikkelson to play softball at UW-Green Bay 

It was with extreme irony that the GOP-led House Appropriations Committee voted to cut Amtrak's budget to around $1.1 billion the morning after the tragic train accident in Philadelphia.

Labor unions lost the support of the majority in this country for two reasons. First and most important was a decades-long organized attack on unions by business and politicians. But often ign…