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December 18, 1942 — August 24, 2025

August 10, 1944 — August 22, 2025

Rodney King’s famous line “Can we all get along?” feels more relevant than ever today, underscoring our highly regrettable departure from civility toward a more belligerent and uneasy political reality.

For 10 days nearly 6 million gallons of wastewater spewed from a broken pipe near Nine Springs Creek on Madison’s South Side.

Man shot, dropped off at hospital

ARMSTRONG, Richard C., 81 DeForest

If there’s one thing Democrats and Republicans can agree on in Wisconsin’s polarized state Capitol these days, it’s a desire to preserve the state’s decades-old land conservation program.

Wall Street capped a choppy day of trading Tuesday with slight gains for stocks, leaving the major indexes just below their recent all-time highs.

It’s a love story and, baby, she said yes: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged, they announced Tuesday.

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook will sue President Donald Trump’s administration to try to prevent him from firing her, her lawyer said Tuesday.

The email asks people to consider donating $20.26 to help “Taylor’s party” win in 2026.

WASHINGTON — JB Pritzker took a water taxi along the Chicago Riverwalk, past one of Donald Trump's famous downtown towers. The gleaming and heavily trafficked tourist district was a deliberate backdrop on the day the Illinois governor directed a defiant…

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested at the county courthouse in April and indicted on federal charges in May.

Devonte Gafford is charged as a party to the crime of first-degree intentional homicide in the killing of Devon Grant at the Harmony at Grandview Commons apartment complex.

The Friends of San Damiano is a nonprofit dedicated to transforming the 10-acre San Damiano property on Lake Monona into a public space for recreation, programming, and peaceful reflection.

The updated project sets the building farther from the street and an old carriage house and eliminates the balconies and bay windows on earlier versions.

News organizations got a rare look at the Basic Immigration Law Enforcement Training Program that new ICE recruits go through and what they learn.

One of the top scorers in Badgers history, who went on to have a lengthy career as an attorney in Madison, died on Aug. 18. He was 75.

The Diocese of Madison said in a statement that Andrew Showers “will be completely restricted from all exercise of public ministry while the investigation is ongoing.”

WASHINGTON — Melania Trump on Tuesday invited students in grades K-12 to participate in a government-sponsored nationwide contest that is designed to encourage them to work together to use artificial intelligence tools to solve community issues.