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Ammerman was chosen from a list of 15 nominees for her efforts to bring health care and recreational opportunities to women in the villages of Kenya.

MAZOMANIE - Darrold L. Hook, age 83, of Mazomanie, Wis., died on Thursday, April 9, 2015, at home in the presence of his family. Funeral arrangements are pending at the Ellestad Camacho Funera…

Before he started running for president Gov. Scott Walker supported a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants saying that it "makes sense." Unfortunately making sense won't win you the R…

Walker cosponsored a bill favored by gun-rights advocates, voted against a bill in 2002, then signed the law in 2011.

This spring, Wisconsin Badgers fans who grew up in the 1980s felt like they had awakened in a fantasy.

Nearly all lakes and flowages in northwestern Wisconsin became ice free in the past week and ice-out is progressing fast on waters in north-central and northeast Wisconsin and all waters shoul…

Employees get the rewards for beating their benchmarks over the past five years.

Real estate values jump a healthy 5.5 percent with increases for residential and commercial properties.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has gone into overdrive against a nuclear agreement with Iran.

The increases would affect out-of-state undergraduates and graduate students in select programs.

In addition to opening a 14,000 square-foot brewery, Mobcraft has plans for a one-barrel tasting room in Madison.

Thirteen of the 24 entries advancing to the finalist round of the 12th-annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest are from the Madison area.

CHICAGO — I just finished reading “Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men,” written by Dr. Leonard Sax after years of seein…

Dekker, who will forgo his senior season with the Badgers, is projected as a first-round selection in the June draft, perhaps as a lottery pick.

State Treasurer Matt Adamczyk has banned staffers for the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands from discussing climate change. He says his own views of the topic are not important. 

Kaminsky swept all of the major player of the year awards.

It's a busy month for jazz music in Madison and beyond. 

Jazz Appreciation Month events are sprinkled throughout the city, making it a busy month of music in Madison.

Bellydancing UW presents both student and professional dancers in its 15th annual spring showcase.

A white police officer was charged with murder this week after a video showed him fatally shooting a fleeing black man. The South Carolina city where it happened is now ordering body cameras f…