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Junior forward Wyatt Gallitz scored 27 points to lead the Waterloo boys basketball team to a 63-51 victory over visiting Cambridge in a Capitol South Conference game Tuesday night.

Senior forward Riley Rosemeyer scored 16 points to power Oregon as the visiting Panthers downed Monona Grove 53-39 in a Badger South Conference girls basketball game on Tuesday night to remain…

The Middleton boys hockey team kept its grip on the Big Eight Conference lead Tuesday night with a 5-1 victory over the host Janesville Bluebirds.

The DeForest boys basketball team held off a late Janesville Craig charge to pull out a 62-61 non-conference victory on the road Tuesday night.

Weeks after Dave Aranda and Joe Rudolph were expected to become Paul Chryst’s top football assistants at the University of Wisconsin, the hirings were made official.

For some programs, losing a senior point guard with as much moxie and experience as Traevon Jackson might be catastrophic.

When 15-year-old defenseman Tyler Inamoto came to check out the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey program last fall, he decided that his search for a collegiate landing spot had ended.

It was a frustrating feeling for Frank Kaminsky as the senior center for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team sat on the bench Sunday night and watched the Badgers lose their firs…

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Madison's Young Gifted and Black Coalition responded to criticism of the group from Police Chief Mike Koval on Tuesday.

I want to thank the writer of the recent letter "Cost of course could be stressful." The writer articulated the very real accessibility issues caused by the $495 cost of our UW Health Mindfuln…

Je suis Charlie.

It's always fun to read about one of the most famous NFL games in history, and to revisit one of the most famous photos ever taken in an NFL game on front page of the State Journal on Friday, Jan. 9.

Legal casinos are just the tip of gambling in Wisconsin. The state does not enforce the law against illegal gambling machines in a business unless there are more than five. I have seen five ma…

I'm a teacher in the Madison School District. As I wrote this letter, I was sitting at home fighting a severe cold exacerbated by cold temperatures in my classroom.

A 15-year-old boy who had recently arrived in Madison from Georgia attacked a woman on Winnebago Street in August 2013 to rob her of her iPod, but did not rape her as she told investigators, o…

There are 237,768 spring turkey permits available for the April-May six-period season.

The Packers' offense seems better equipped this time around to face Richard Sherman and Seattle's swarming defense.

Record corn production in some states won't increase demand and that should keep prices from climbing much in 2015.