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Update: Madison breaks unofficial record for biggest temperature swing in its history

Wed, 02/28/2024 - 7:40am
Madison saw a record high of 70 on Tuesday and was down to 11 shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday, a swing of 59 degrees.

5 things to know about the WIAA boys and girls state hockey tournaments

Wed, 02/28/2024 - 7:13am
Middleton will host the WIAA boys and girls state hockey tournaments with a pair of Madison-area teams competing. Here's what to know.

Hands on Wisconsin: Being superintendent of schools in Madison is mission impossible

Wed, 02/28/2024 - 7:10am
The Madison School Board has hired a new superintendent of schools, Madison-native and former LaFollette High School principal, Joe Gothard.

How this Madison Edgewood senior goaltender has 'been a wall' on the road to state

Wed, 02/28/2024 - 7:05am
Goalie Rowan White and the Edgewood boys hockey team face defending champion Green Bay Notre Dame in a WIAA Division 1 state semifinal Friday.

Worst offense, defense comes at once in Wisconsin men's basketball's fifth straight road loss

Wed, 02/28/2024 - 6:37am
The Badgers have become predictable and against Indiana they showed how outplaying teams for the majority of a game isn't enough.

Madison may open land purchase fund uses to urban agriculture, community gardens

Wed, 02/28/2024 - 6:35am
Proposal would add community and market gardens, greenhouses and vertical farming as appropriate secondary uses for a city Land Banking Fund used to buy property for economic development and low-cost housing.

More Wisconsin communities are eyeing land trusts as an avenue for low-cost homeownership

Wed, 02/28/2024 - 6:35am
The Madison Area Community Land Trust incorporated in the early 1990s, being the first in the state.

Davis: How boys basketball sectional groupings fail to meet WIAA's goal

Wed, 02/28/2024 - 6:25am
The governing body cites geographical representation as the tournament's main purpose, but shifting schools cuts at the heart of that desire to put the entire state on display.

Wisconsin Republicans' appeal continues quest to oust state's top election official

Wed, 02/28/2024 - 5:40am
The appeal of a Dane County judge's ruling is part of a monthslong effort to remove Meagan Wolfe from her position as the nonpartisan administrator to the Wisconsin Elections Commission.

Kanopy brings the great American work 'Appalachian Spring' back to a Madison stage

Wed, 02/28/2024 - 5:40am
The Madison dance company is one of six internationally selected to celebrate 100th anniversary of Martha Graham Dance Company.

Super Bowl or bust? Packers general manager delivers expectations and 11 other things to know

Wed, 02/28/2024 - 5:35am
With the scouting combine marking the unofficial start of the new season, Brian Gutekunst discussed a myriad of topics from Green Bay's roster to the league's annual draft in April.

See details of Madison schools superintendent Joe Gothard's contract

Wed, 02/28/2024 - 5:30am
The Madison School District on Tuesday revealed the contract for incoming superintendent Joe Gothard.

UW Glass Lab's Helen Lee wins major art award, has exhibit at Arts + Literature Lab

Wed, 02/28/2024 - 5:30am
Artist and UW associate professor Helen Lee has received a prestigious United States Artists Fellowship.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers to veto Republican bill for $125M to fight forever chemicals

Wed, 02/28/2024 - 5:30am
Republicans who control the Legislature's powerful finance committee didn't immediately respond to Gov. Tony Evers' request, raising the possibility that the money will go unspent indefinitely.

Abrupt stoppage 'a great timeout' for Indiana in Wisconsin men's basketball's loss

Wed, 02/28/2024 - 5:25am
The Badgers had secured momentum and tied the game. Here's how players and coaches reacted, and what police said occurred.

FBI offers $15,000 reward in case of missing 3-year-old Wisconsin Dells boy

Wed, 02/28/2024 - 5:15am
Elijah Vue was last seen Feb. 20 at a residence in Two Rivers, where prosecutors said his mother had sent him to stay with a man now charged with child neglect.

Trial begins for 1 of 2 men charged with murder at Far East Side apartments

Wed, 02/28/2024 - 5:15am
Devonte Gafford is charged with taking part in a homicide that was caught on video.

Hovde Company was good steward of tricky historic building -- Scott Herrick

Wed, 02/28/2024 - 5:00am
Before I retired, my law firm leased our office in the Churchill Building in Madison from the Hovde Company. The company was a good commercial landlord and an excellent steward of the temperamental old building.

Madison schools have bigger problems than climate change -- Lyle Krall

Wed, 02/28/2024 - 5:00am
The Madison School Board needs refocus on the real problems with our school system.

Extreme weather is tied to our worsening climate crisis -- Nancy Vedder-Shults

Wed, 02/28/2024 - 5:00am
It’s late February, and it’s over 60° Fahrenheit. It snowed over the weekend. And before that we had a tornado.

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