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Nick Ripke was born in 2005 with a defective organ. How a tragedy led to this future educator receiving "the best heart I could have gotten" and created a bond.

This is the first in a series examining Wisconsin high school records that are unlikely to be broken. We look at the baseball state tournament single-game strikeout record.

Tobias Myers was backed by an explosive inning on Sunday in San Diego. Here's how the game played out.

The former Badgers star tapped his extensive experience to secure a spot on Team USA and a trip to the Paris Olympics. Here's how he fared in Eugene, Oregon.

"This is a time when we stop depending on our own powers," Pastor Dan Bohlman said. Instead, he said, visitors should instead turn their faith toward a higher power.

MIDDLETON — As a Middleton alderman and reverend, one of the issues I hear most from my neighbors and congregants is the accessibility and affordability of health care. In my lifetime, I’ve seen dramatic shifts in the public’s understanding of,…

The Sussex Hamilton guard is the only in-state player in the Badgers' 2024 class.

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Tips for your flowers, trees and shrubs.

Joe Gothard is a strong pick to lead Madison’s public schools.

One of the formative traits of conservativism is a fear of change. Many Republicans long for a simpler, more cohesive time and detest new and uncomfortable trends in society.

A year later, the campus' closure has left many in the community still grieving and bitter over how it went down.

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We live in a "brave new world" when liberalism in the United States has come to be defined by support for open borders. President Joe Biden has the audacity to criticize other countries for not encouraging immigration, and he credits…

Don "the Con" Trump’s Foxconn deal, which he called the eighth wonder of the world, isn’t even any kind of wonder in Racine County.

I disagree with last Sunday's letter to the editor "This 85-year-old voter won't back Hovde." Active senior housing, in which the letter writer lives, is not a licensed nursing home. Context matters.

Former Madison Mayor Paul Soglin recently wrote a letter to the editor, "City is rezoning areas to boost mayor's BRT," that blamed Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway for the cost of bus rapid transit and for denser zoning.

Last Sunday's column by former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, "Trust in our votes is vital," was -- choose an adjective: odd, confusing, curious, bizarre, misleading, disingenuous, hypocritical. I'm confused.

So now the right-wing members of the U.S. Supreme Court have repealed the ban on bump stocks, doing the bidding of the National Rifle Association and making our streets even less safe again.

I am 91 years old. I have lived through many wars. I’m tired of wars. I often think that if those who insist on wars actually had to do the fighting, we wouldn’t have that many wars.