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A Stoughton liquor store was robbed on Memorial Day, with the suspect arrested by police a short time later.

Madison Public Library representatives are in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, ready to get the nation's highest honor for community service by museums and libraries.

A 54-year-old Madison man suffered significant head injuries Saturday night when he fell off a second-floor balcony at an apartment on the city's East Side.

A burglar made off with an undisclosed amount of money early Tuesday morning after breaking into an East Side restaurant.

A one-block stretch of West Main Street near Capitol Square is closed Wednesday so work can be done at a building on the street.

It’s that time of the year again when we Italians pop our buttons with pride during the ever-popular Festa Italia weekend. Sponsored by the Italian Workmen’s Club at McKee Farms Park in Fitchburg, festivities begin at 4:30 p.m. Friday and…

The awards, which are financed by the institutions the seniors anticipate attending, range from $500 to $2,000 annually for four years of undergraduate study.

OUR VIEW: Madison campus has high retention rate despite funding cut, heavy recruitment

They say we first eat with our eyes.

A number of programs are being used to provide North Side residents access to affordable food after Peirce's Northside Market closed in early May and the co-op won't open until August.

Zac Wille delivered a two-out RBI single in the bottom of the 14th inning to give the Evansville baseball team a 4-3 victory over Monroe in a WIAA Division 2 regional semifinal Tuesday.

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Justin Watts, who pitched out of the bullpen last season, returned to the Madison Mallards as a starter in Tuesday night’s Northwoods League opener.

Wily Peralta struggles but keeps Milwaukee in the game, only for three relievers to give up seven runs.

WISCONSIN DELLS — Madison Edgewood sophomore Rory Gierhart has struggled this golf season.

Teams are competing in the Great Wisconsin Birdathon to spot the most bird species within 24 hours and raise funds for bird conservation.

For a while during the Masters golf tournament in April, it looked like Madison’s Steve Stricker and the American Family Insurance Championship, the inaugural PGA Tour Champions event Stricker is hosting at University Ridge in three weeks, might catch a…

Devil's Lake is managed for brown trout by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. This spring the DNR released about 17,000 legal trout (9 inches) into the 50-foot depths. Boats are allowed, but you can only use electric motors which…

I, and certainly many other veterans, who receive excellent and timely care from the Veterans Hospital in Madison were offended by Phil Hands’ Sunday cartoon. It used a Memorial Day cartoon to suggest veterans “died in line at the VA.”

Again, Steven Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, hit the nail on the head in their Monday "Ask the Weather Guys" column.