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There are now more resources available than ever before to help students succeed.

Thousands of people poked their heads into the hundreds of stands arrayed around Capitol Square on Saturday, the first of two days of the annual fair’s 67th iteration.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will now lead NASA on an interim basis after President Donald Trump soured on other candidates for the job.

Our leaders at the statehouse in Madison look pretty good these days when compared to their counterparts in Washington, D.C.

The Brewers rookie phenom has pitched in just five games, but a few key managers say they understand why he's set to be among the top players in the league.

Enjoy this free gift for your health while you can.

Rebecca Cooke, a candidate in the 3rd Congressional District, brought home two big wins recently when both U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and state Sen. Brad Pfaff, D-Onalaska, endorsed her.

The attention of many Wisconsinites has been focused on the federal and state budgets these last weeks, and many readers may not realize that Gaza continues to be subject to unimaginable suffering under a 4-month-old aid blockade.

Two separate ambushes of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Border Patrol officials in Texas wounded law enforcement personnel. This proves it’s time for the U.S. Justice Department to step in and prosecute all those involved in preventing ICE from…

"I’ve had it," I muttered the other day while driving on the UW-Madison campus. As I was trying gingerly to determine who had the right-of-way at a complicated intersection, the woman (not a student) on my right drove out ahead…

President Donald Trump is more excited to announce and brag about a UFC fight that will be held at the White House than to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin for the largest deadly Russian bombing of Kyiv, Ukraine.

I urge our community to pay attention to the proposed Whitewater Solar project and our fight against it.

Despite overwhelming public opposition, Republicans voted unabashedly to approve legislation for President Donald Trump based on the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 proposals.

I’m not going to debate conservative or liberal. My message is simply that Democrats and Republicans in Congress should fund their priorities.

At what point are the 1% content with their wealth? After one purchases private jets, mansions, and luxury yachts, what more does one require? When is enough enough?

The word transactional has been used to describe President Donald Trump’s trade and governing policy.

Bill Berrien’s entry into the governor’s race reads like a parody of everything Wisconsin voters have already rejected. In one campaign ad, he name-drops President Donald Trump four times like it’s a magic spell — as if tying himself to…

Austen Brantley's beautiful sculpture of a Black mother and child in Worthington Park in Madison brings to mind one of the biggest problems facing Black Americans: Too many Black children are being raised by mothers in single-parent homes.

Last Sunday's column by Eve Galanter, "Public media need funds," urged support for continued public funding of PBS Wisconsin and Wisconsin Public Radio. This is a tough issue.

Who in their right mind thought bus stops in the middle of four lanes of busy Madison traffic was a good idea? This is a lawsuit waiting to happen.