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The Badgers were making just their fifth Sweet 16 appearance in program history, but they weren't able to keep the special season going after running into top-seeded Southern Cal.

The Badgers dominated in the second half behind transfer sensation John Tonje, winning their second straight early season tournament.

State Journal columnist Jim Polzin grades Green Bay's performance in its 38-10 win over San Francisco on Sunday at Lambeau Field.

Green Bay didn't mess around Sunday and give their playoff nemesis much reason for hope. Here's what stood out from Lambeau Field.

A complete effort carried the Green Bay Packers to a comfortable win. Here are columnist Jim Polzin's initial impressions.

Madison and Dane County government

Teen arrested, guns recovered in probe

Hezbollah has fired about 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel, wounding seven people in one of the militant group’s heaviest barrages in months.

Spectrum just finished a rural broadband project in the town of Pacific near Portage that can provide broadband internet for up to 450 rural homes.

A Wisconsin farmer told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel last week that if Donald Trump’s threat of mass immigrant deportations is carried out, dairy farming would collapse in a “big, nasty, ugly way.”

The Wisconsin football quarterback room continues to be retooled during the early years of Luke Fickell's time in Madison. Here are some scenarios with the 2024 season winding down.

The Badgers have cleaned up a late push toward the early signing period with yet another flip, this time of a quarterback.

NEW YORK — With a combined $270 million in worldwide ticket sales, “Wicked” and “Gladiator II” breathed fresh life into a box office that has struggled lately, leading to one of the busiest moviegoing weekends of the year.

Taxi services in Baraboo may not continue into 2025 after the city's contract with Abby Vans expires at the end of the year.

Chuck Woolery, the affable, smooth-talking game show host of “Wheel of Fortune,” “Love Connection” and “Scrabble” who later became a right-wing podcaster, has died.

Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman is in the news again after a state regulatory body found he violated several rules during his investigation into the 2020 election.

Multiple shots were reported shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday in the 2800 block of Coho Street, Fitchburg police reported.

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The 16-year-old was a suspect in several recent shots fired cases, including two from October that occurred on North Thompson Avenue.

The man had warrants for his arrest and said he would not surrender alive.