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North Carolina defeats UW in five sets with Lauryn Gillis sidelined by a sprained ankle.

Half of the 10 teams in the Rock Valley Conference are tied for the league lead four weeks into the season, and part of the credit for that goes to Jefferson’s Hunter Milbrath.

Keegan Harder scored the go-ahead touchdown on a 3-yard run with 4 minutes, 47 seconds left in the fourth quarter Friday night and the visiting DeForest football team held on for a 28-27 victory over Baraboo in Badger North Conference…

MONROE — Jacob Kind and his teammates saw this night coming — or at least they thought they did.

Madison Memorial football coach Adam Smith was not surprised.

Drew King returned the opening kickoff 95 yards for a score and returned a punt 55 yards for a touchdown later in the first quarter, helping Verona open a 20-point lead on its way to a 27-6 victory over visiting…

Jimmy Nelson allows both homers and falls to 0-7 in eight career starts against St. Louis.

Sun Prairie girls swimmers swept every event Friday on their way to a 136-34 victory over visiting Janesville Parker/Evansville in a Big Eight Conference dual meet.

According to Johnson, a veteran was found dead of an apparent suicide after reportedly being denied treatment at the VA Medical Center's mental health clinic in Tomah.

Joan Rubens, the matriarch of the family, has volunteered in each of the first 15 Ironman Wisconsin events and has been on hand to greet three of her children at the finish line. She’ll be there again Sunday when her…

Band director and instrumental music teacher Chris Gleason of Sun Prairie's Patrick Marsh Middle School won the Teacher of the Year award. State Superintendent Tony Evers names Gleason in a surprise ceremony in the school's gym.

Nashville is known as “Music City,” and Madison music startup Rabble will help polish that image by bringing the songs of Nashville’s local bands to that city’s libraries.

Sun Prairie Police are searching for Marsean D. Taylor, 23, in connection with the shooting at Taco Bell that sent a victim to the hospital.

It is galling that Donald Trump has proclaimed himself the “law and order candidate,” since he has demonstrated disregard for the rule of law. He has advocated for torture, claimed a judge with of Mexican heritage couldn't rule fairly in…

As reported in the Sept. 2 State Journal, Georgetown University now acknowledges it obtained profits from the institution of slavery when it sold 272 slaves in 1838, exactly at a time when the abolition of slavery was becoming a highly…

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater senior swimmer Spencer Twining, a Janesville Parker product, died Thursday in a motorcycle accident in Eagle Township, Waukesha County. He was 21.

The amendment to the county's "living wage" ordinance will gradually raise the minimum wage for county-funded workers to $15 an hour before eventually tying it to inflation.

CHICAGO — Wasn’t it just a few weeks ago that we were told the presidential election was over?

HILLSBORO - Arden Glenn Peterson, age 88, passed away Sept. 9, 2016, in Viroqua, Wis. He was born on Irish Ridge in Vernon County on Oct. 25, 1927, to Andrew O. and Lydia (Selin) Peterson. He graduated from Viroqua High…

REEDSBURG - Lorrain J. Lamke, age 79, of Reedsburg, died peacefully on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016, surrounded by her loving family. She was born on April 2, 1937, in the Town of Woodland, Sauk County, the daughter of Isadore and…