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PLATTEVILLE — One session during University of Wisconsin football practice Sunday showed the highs and lows of being a tight end.

BRISTOL, Tenn. — A record crowd for a regular-season Major League Baseball game got to see all the pomp and pageantry with the MLB Speedway Classic before the rain washed out the game itself in the bottom of the first…

WASHINGTON — Brice Turang hit two two-run homers, and the Milwaukee Brewers completed their first season sweep of the Washington Nationals with a 14-3 victory on Sunday.

Milwaukee scored 14 runs after hammering 16 two nights before to beat Washington soundly in the third and final game of the road series.

Texas Democrats are leaving the state in an attempt to prevent the state House from holding a vote Monday on new congressional maps that Republicans hope will net them several additional U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterm elections.

Police were called to 21 Dodge Street at about 5:30 p.m. Saturday in response to a man with a knife.

The Richland Center man died after losing control of his motorcycle Friday night in the town of Clyde, about 60 miles west of Madison, police said.

There’s a notion among many political consultants and pollsters that crowded primaries only cause frustrations for the eventual nominee and the party. They tell us that if partisans could just coalesce early around a single candidate for a top post…

A breakout day for a running back, a transfer defensive back solidifying his role and more from Badgers practice in Platteville.

LOS ANGELES — Marvel’s first family stumbled in theaters in its second weekend but still held on to the top spot at the box office.

NEW YORK — The requests have come in letters, emails and phone calls. The specifics vary, but the target is consistent: The U.S. Department of Justice is ramping up an effort to get voter data and other election information from…

Tips for your flowers, plants, trees and shrubs.

The agency responsible for President Trump's mass deportations agenda is launching a recruiting campaign.

Federal judges are demanding more help and attention as threats against them escalate.

One case was confirmed through testing at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, with eight other cases confirmed based on exposure and symptoms, DHS officials said in a statement.

After Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers decided not to run for a third term, Sabato's Crystal Ball, a political analysis newsletter put out by the Center for Politics, moved the Wisconsin race for governor from a rating of "leans Democratic" to…

Millions of years of weathering and erosion formed human-like shapes

Joe Gothard, Madison’s relatively new school superintendent, posed an important question last week: “Is it time for us to look to interject more choices, more options for families, for children to consider?”

How have devastating losses impacted former coaches and athletes who experienced them? We share the stories of those on the wrong side of history in our summer series.