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Should the county expand the Exhibition Hall and keep major events like the World Dairy Expo, or upgrade the dated Coliseum to attract more shows, and the money they bring?

Madison and Dane County have a long history of pulling off publicly funded projects — eventually.

Plans call for a series of improvements to bridge the separation between Downtown and Lake Monona's hard-to-reach shoreline.

Since 1971, Madison has appeared close to getting its own Amtrak station. Again and again, those plans fizzled out.

A four-story apartment building, Chase Bank, Crew Carwash, McDonald's and Chick-fil-A are expected to open in the Fitchburg development by early next year.

Universities of Wisconsin System faculty fear for the future of research under a new teaching workload requirement they say will overburden professors and exacerbate inequalities between system schools.

The incident happened the night of June 25 in the 800 block of Jana Lane on the Far East Side.

Thunderworks Games faces an uncertain future as it tries to navigate and plan around a changing landscape of tariffs.

Cal Raleigh ripped his 39th homer of the season to bring the Milwaukee Brewers win streak to a halt.

An unforgettable personal foul call in 1998 has forever stained the Kohl Center experience for former Monona Grove boys basketball players and coaches.

Only one of the four new members of the Badgers women's basketball coaching staff has a salary higher than the person who held the job last season.

Radical Mamdani makes elections easy for GOP

Scandinavian socialism isn’t like a dictatorship

Deputies and UW Rescue removed him from the water at about 3:30 p.m. and began lifesaving measures, but he was pronounced dead a short time later

Big Ten chief Tony Petitti addressed several key topics on the opening day of the conference's football media days. Here are the highlights from his remarks.

Maryland coach Mike Locksley and his players presented different thoughts on the matchup against former QB Billy Edwards and Wisconsin in September.

Three men were arrested in a SWAT operation in the 700 block of West Washington Avenue, in connection with a shooting on Madison's North Side in Madison, Wis. Tuesday, July 22, 2025. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL

Noelia A. Martinez, 30, was allegedly drunk again when she hit the Volkswagen Tiguan while driving south in the northbound lanes of I-39/90/94 near DeForest at around midnight Sunday.

Man, 44, dies on Lake Mendota

The Milwaukee Brewers are on a surging run, winning 11 games in a row to become the first team in the National League to win 60 games this season.