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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney faced off in the Oval Office on Tuesday and showed no signs of retreating from their gaping differences in an ongoing trade war that has shattered decades of trust…

Taylor Blair waters the plants next to Gates of Heaven on Tuesday, May 6, 2025 at James Madison Park in Madison, Wi.

WASHINGTON — Travelers who haven’t obtained a Real ID by this week’s deadline received assurances from the head of Homeland Security that they will be able to fly after additional identity checks. Her comments came Tuesday as people were waiting…

Big Ten universities come together for sporting events — they should be able to do it for existential crises, too, a sponsor of the resolution said Monday.

Democrats said their GOP colleagues are turning "their backs on working families by removing broadly popular policy proposals in pursuit of a massive tax giveaway to their ultra wealthy donors."

Madison police are taking the lead in the investigation along with the county medical examiner,

By the time police arrived, the people involved in the incident had left, and the victim had been taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Each meeting will focus on a key area of service: public works, city administration and facilities, public safety, transportation, and community and economic development.

I hate my new car.

Area forwards delivered pivotal goals during the past week of high school girls soccer action. Vote for your favorite athlete to be this week's Supernova.

Voters in Wisconsin’s farm country should look out for themselves when it comes to low-cost programs that improve safety and health without costing an arm and a leg.

Landowner Chad Sauey said his father "wanted the land to be used to encourage people to put roots down in Baraboo and make Baraboo their home."

The Sun Prairie-based company will shutter three Madison area stores but open two others.

Former State Journal writer Tom Alesia mostly wrote about entertainment and music during his newspaper career. But his second baseball book focuses on Madison's successful summer team.

Record breakers and momentum changers starred during last week's rain-affected high school baseball action. Vote for the most notable performance as the Supernova.

Empathy helps us understand and connect to others’ humanity. It makes our lives richer. Elon Musk has stated he thinks empathy is “the fundamental weakness of Western civilization.” Cheered by President Donald Trump, Musk has shown an acute numbness to…

The COVID-19 pandemic generated considerable opposition to the use of masks to protect public health. Some distrusted the scientists, and others argued that wearing a mask is an individual choice.

Capitalism may be the best form of economic organization so far discovered. But we need to look at the psychology underpinning capitalism: greed.

Democrats seem intent on crossing the Rubicon. They're keenly aware but apparently don't care that, once across, there's virtually no turning back. Bereft of ideas, they eschew policy debates, preferring to chant, sing or rant with vulgar and vitriolic language.

Crowd sizes for Badgers games at the Kohl Center were 13% smaller in 2024-25 than they were the year before. Here are the details.