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Offseason has arrived for the Badgers, meaning that transfer portal activity and movement is in full swing. Here's the latest on which players from the program have entered the portal.

The Badgers lost their first player to the transfer portal this offseason. Here's what to know.

Jim Schmidt is the fourth chancellor to either announce a departure or a retirement in the last year, and contributes to the years-long string of turnover of chancellors.

Madison Parks has honored Earth Day for nearly 30 years by recruiting volunteers for the Earth Day Challenge.

“There are hundreds of millions of dollars at stake," bill co-author and Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu said.

Staff have been cut at the National Park Office that supports the trail and grant freezes are causing a nonprofit to pause 4 trail construction projects.

The Madison restaurant will be fast casual with counter service. It will serve Texas-style brisket, chicken, pork, Pink Heifer's elaborate Southwest salad and mac n' cheese with and without meat.

Spelling-bee tailgate will celebrate academics with the same gusto as sports

Fifty-four champion spellers will compete Saturday in the annual Badger State Spelling Bee, with the top two advancing to the national competition.

The Sun Prairie School District needs school board members who will champion equity, transparency and real community engagement. That’s why I’m excited to support Melissa Grayson and Isaac Sung — dedicated advocates committed to putting students first, listening to teachers…

Though the focus of draining the swamp is in Washington, Madison has quite a deep swamp of its own to drain.

As a recently retired circuit court judge, I made it a priority to stay out of politics. I was appointed by Gov. Scott Walker and was twice elected to the bench by the good citizens of Dane County. After watching…

It's obvious that U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, does not believe in science or public education. If he did, he would stand up for us Wisconsinites against the flagrant actions by the president to privatize both.

Milwaukee Bucks guard Damian Lillard is taking blood-thinning medication and the Bucks provided no target date for his potential return.

BOSTON — Ilia Malinin was standing in the baggage claim area of Boston Logan International Airport when a young man politely came up beside him. He pulled out an envelope filled with dozens of 8x10 photographs of the world champion…

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The University of Wisconsin has tabbed an established Power Four coach to turn around its women’s basketball program.

Houston and Gonzaga met in a second-round NCAA Tournament matchup last weekend in Wichita, Kansas, that could as easily have been played in the Final Four, the way Kelvin Sampson’s and Mark Few’s teams had played throughout the season.

The tied vote lets the Legislature's budget committee choose which projects to prioritize as part of the upcoming biennial budget negotiations.

Security video footage shows an otter leaving the stoop of a building and launching itself into a belly slide on the snow, its forepaws snapping to its side.