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The crash remains under investigation, and charges are pending, authorities reported.

The stabbing was the fourth violent incident reported at Monkeyshines in the past few years, following shootings in 2021 and 2023 and a stabbing in 2024.

The investigation determined that the vehicle was stolen from an apartment complex in Madison and evidence suggested that the steering column was broken into to steal the vehicle.

On Feb. 23, inmate Lisa Harding, 38, was found experiencing a medical emergency in her cell with a "plastic-like bindle" full of white powder in her airway.

U.S. health officials are investigating a new outbreak of salmonella illnesses tied to a Florida grower whose tainted cucumbers were linked to more than 550 illnesses last year.

A fire late Thursday evening destroyed a bridge on Wisconsin’s Great River State Trail, severing the path’s connection between Trempealeau and Onalaska.

Madison firefighters were dispatched to an apartment complex in the 1700 block of Blossom Lane just before 6 a.m. on a resident's report of smoke-filled hallways and alarms sounding.

WASHINGTON — As nasty tornadoes popped up from Kansas to Kentucky, a depleted National Weather Service was in scramble mode.

The amendments came after Nicki Vander Meulen heard from parents upset about losing positions and staff unhappy that they were being moved to different schools.

BOTHAVILLE, South Africa — Days before South Africa’s president meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House, Afrikaner farmers at the center of an extraordinary new U.S. refugee policy roamed a memorial to farm attacks in their country’s…

A survey found that most Badgers men's basketball season ticket buyers didn't want a complete reseating of the Kohl Center.

Wisconsin's 2026 state Supreme Court election will come just one year after the state shattered nationwide records for spending in a judicial race.

Wisconsin State Journal cartoonist Phil Hands will draw his cartoon live and talk about his work during a Facebook event Tuesday.

The Wisconsin-based jamgrass quartet Armchair Boogie, with Ben Majeska on acoustic and electric guitars, is one of the bands opening the festival on June 19.

States governed by Republicans and Democrats alike recognize the U.S. economy cannot exist in a bubble. Trade, direct investments and other business deals can be mutually beneficial, if ethically based.

Cleanup continues from Thursday's tornadoes, which damaged one-third of Juneau, Mayor Dan Wegener said.

Cleanup continues from Thursday's tornado, which damaged one-third of the community, the mayor said.

The shelter on the Far East Side will cost about $4 million a year to run, but the current budget for shelter operations is about $1.2 million.

Braeden Carrington, a Minnesota native, admitted that his decision to play for Wisconsin after spending time with the Golden Gophers in the past is unique. But the Badgers made sense.

“I’ve worked too hard to miss a day,” William Contreras said. “I don’t want to take two or three months off.”