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Webster's dictionary defines gerrymandering as "the practice of dividing or arranging a territorial unit into election districts in a way that gives one political party an unfair advantage in elections." Note no mention of a difference for Republican or Democrat.

Chris Rickert's Feb. 2 article about winter weather, "Winter’s a 'roller coaster,'" was mostly free of superlatives and adjectives such as "atypical" and "unprecedented." His facts spoke loudly for themselves. They essentially said that this is climate change, and we…

I voted for Donald Trump in 2016, and he turned out to be the best president of the United States in my lifetime. America prospered under his leadership as he kept unemployment and inflation low while keeping our nation safe…

I have fished, swam and boated in our lakes for over 75 years. It's disturbing that many people seem to think eliminating or even reducing road salt will save our lakes.

I don't get it. The U.S. has military bases throughout the Mideast including in Iraq and Syria. These bases continue to provoke attacks from Iranian proxies, leading to American deaths and injuries, which cause the inevitable American counter attacks, so…

The Sesame Street character Elmo recently reached out through social media, asking how everyone was doing. A lot has been written about all the people responding that are having troubles in their lives.

Please tell me what is false about this statement: In the early 21st century, millions upon millions of American women demanded the right to kill their unborn children at any time from the moment of conception until birth.

Free speech is considered a pillar in our democracy. In theory it allows everyone to have a voice. In reality it does not.

Cities and counties should electrify their light-duty and medium-duty municipal vehicle fleets using newly available tax incentives.

Coaching is not immune to the issues of the Badgers' latest loss of four straight. Here are likes, dislikes and what it means.

The Badgers were short-handed but fell behind at the start and never recovered. Here's what we learned from the latest loss.

The Badgers appear to be short-handed as they hope to end a three-game losing streak. Here's what we know.

Oscar Fox and Lewis Crane get ready for the Super Bowl in this week's Mendota Marsh.

Lady Liberty has found a new place at UW-Madison this year.

Cruz Lucius missed the last two games. David Silye's scoring had been way down. They connected Friday in helping the Badgers come from behind to beat Notre Dame.

Winter tornadoes are likely to be stronger and stay on the ground longer with a wider swath of destruction in a warming world, a study showed.

Heavily impacted residents from the town of Porter gathered Friday night to ask questions and learn more about their plight.

Investigators are assessing the strength of the Evansville area tornado that had winds of 135 mph and was throwing debris east of Evansville 10,000 to 15,000 feet into the air.

"I do not believe you," Circuit Judge Mario White told Janessa Cardenas, who said she was not driving, after initially telling police she was.

Love and support from her teammates and the hockey community is what's kept the Sun Prairie East senior coming back. Meet Cap City Cougars' Kaitlyn Nelson.