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GREEN BAY — When the Green Bay Packers saw Russell Wilson as an NFL rookie in 2012, the former University of Wisconsin quarterback was considered little more than a curiosity.

The University of Wisconsin announced the hiring of five position coaches Wednesday, minutes before the school held an introductory news conference for offensive coordinator Joe Rudolph and de…

It’s the nature of the beast that new University of Wisconsin football coach Paul Chryst is already taking flak from impatient fans.

The powder blue throat of this fish and the similarly-pigmented lower half of the gill cover is the characteristic from which the name bluegill originated.

A Democrat said the proposal, part of a state economic development agency merger, "flies in the face of reason."

Joe Rudolph was momentarily lost when walking through the University of Wisconsin’s athletic facilities Wednesday.

The demands made on the Madison Police Department by the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition show a significant level of naivety. This lack of knowledge is at least in part due to the negative i…

The appropriate public response to former La Crosse Bishop Raymond Burke’s astonishingly offensive remarks scapegoating women’s rights advocates for the Catholic Church’s egregious failure to …

Now that local elections are coming up, it's time to demand candidates take stands on some issues.

A front-page article in Monday's State Journal reported the solidarity march in France attended by the leaders from 40 nations. They stood against terrorism across the world.

In light of the terrorist attack in Paris, detachment borne of distance may be somewhat comforting -- but it should not leave any of us comfortable in our relative isolation, and certainly nev…

The trust funds for state employees and retirees saw returns in 2014 that will result in "modest" pension and interest rate increases, the Wisconsin Investment Board reported Wednesday.

Peng Her and Barbara Nichols are the 2015 recipients of the award, presented annually at the city-county Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi and Madison May…

Child pornography possession charges against a former Dane County sheriff's deputy were dismissed Wednesday after a judge ruled that there was a fatal cut-and-paste error on a search warrant t…

Quarterback Aaron Rodgers was limited in practice on Wednesday with a left calf injury as the Green Bay Packers prepare for Seattle in the NFC title game.

The raise for MATC part-timers includes most of the of rate-of-inflation increases they were eligible for but didn't receive since their last contract with the college expired. The union was e…

A Madison man was charged Wednesday with 11 felonies for two burglaries and an attempted burglary in Madison in October and November, including one in which police said he took two guns from a home.

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:

Liability concerns shouldn't stop Midwestern childhood tradition