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County officials announced the four-day closure of the boat launch where the Yahara River enters Lake Kegonsa as part of a much larger initiative to remove sediment.

The crash happened about 7:50 p.m. in the area of Baker Ford Road and Whig Road in Grant County, Sheriff Craig Reukauf said.

At about 9:30 p.m., fire crews were sent to the 800 block of West Broadway after a waterflow alarm activated, the Monona Fire Department said.

Almost all areas in the U.S. are getting more heavy precipitation, with the largest increases in the Midwest and Northeast.

Christopher Berge opened ObertAlvin Coffee House in Blue Mounds a year ago in a former opera house and named after his grandfathers.

Two nationwide media polls featuring Big Ten reporters don't see Wisconsin's return to contention coming this season. Check out the results here.

In 2000, Congress passed the Chimpanzee Health Improvement, Maintenance and Protection (CHIMP) Act to provide funding for lifetime care and sanctuary for chimpanzees kept and used in U.S. laboratories. Today, chimpanzee sanctuaries across the United States care for more than…

Signed into law on July 4, President Donald Trump's budget reconciliation bill extends Trump's 2017 multi-trillion dollar tax cuts and cuts Medicaid and food stamps by $1.2 trillion.

From issues with the SEC to internal strife surrounding nonconference games, the Big Ten's round of media days aren't short on storylines. Here are 3 key ones to watch.

PHOENIX — Eugenio Suárez homered twice for the second consecutive day and Merrill Kelly allowed two runs in six innings to help the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-3 on Sunday.

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An assistant athletic trainer for the Florida Panthers is from Sun Prairie, and he's bringing the championship trophy home, with a public event for picture-taking.

WASHINGTON — Venus Williams is back on the tennis scene, ready to compete for the first time in more than a year, and while she smiled or laughed frequently Sunday while discussing her return at the DC Open, there was…

Milwaukee moved into a tie with the Chicago Cubs and Detroit Tigers for the best record in the majors after finishing off a road sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

PARIS — D-Day veteran “Papa Jake” Larson, who survived German gunfire on Normandy’s bluffs in 1944 and then garnered 1.2 million followers on TikTok late in life by sharing stories to commemorate World War II and his fallen comrades, has…

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President Donald Trump has called for Washington's football team and Cleveland's baseball team to return to their previous names.

The Trump administration has been moving to gut all sorts of essential services for Americans. But one of the cruelest cuts came last week when, at the direction of the White House, the LGBTQ+ Youth Specialized Services program of the…

NEW YORK — A Justice Department request to unseal grand jury transcripts in the prosecution of chronic sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend is unlikely to produce much, if anything, to satisfy the public’s appetite for new revelations…