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Only about one third of the 245 spellers competing have made it to Wednesday night's semifinals.

The man told police he did not know who or why anyone was shooting at him, Madison police said.

Too many Americans have been duped by big agriculture. They believe dandelions in their yards are a bad thing. Dandelions are harmless. People spend billions to kill the innocent plants. Big ag laughs all the way to the bank.

I had just left Oakwood Village in Madison on May 19 and was driving east on Mineral Point Road. I was in the right lane traveling at the posted speed limit of 35 mph.

The man is accused of pulling an officer to the ground and attempting to disarm her of her wooden baton after the officer had requested he back away.

The program lets qualified students enroll in most UW schools without going through the traditional college application process.

The westbound lanes of I-94 were closed from shortly after 7 p.m. Tuesday until nearly 2:45 a.m. Wednesday, the state Department of Transportation reported.

Former Winona State University player Clay Schueffner has been charged with homicide by negligent operation of a vehicle in Milwaukee County after allegedly hitting 93-year-old priest David Gau.

In a May 2021 radio interview, Manjon said the group doesn't make attending court dates a condition of getting bail assistance, "because we're abolitionists."

If the NFL Players Association gets its way, Green Bay and the league’s other 31 teams are about to see their offseason programs altered in a major way.

Reigning champions and athletes looking for redemption highlight this year's list of area qualifiers. Here's what you need to know about the two-day event.

The man was arrested in Beloit by Beloit and Janesville police and jailed on a tentative charge of mistreating animal – felony, authorities said.

This year millions of cicadas will emerge across southern Wisconsin. Our brood of the harmless but noisy insects only emerges every 17 years.

Madison Trust for Historic Preservation is launching a new set of eight walking tours Thursday, including ones of the Greenbush neighborhood, Maple Bluff and the UW-Madison agricultural campus.

The next three weeks of recruits coming to Madison are important for Luke Fickell, data shows. Here's where things stand and areas to address.

The Badgers missed out on a forward target last week. From top targets to late-bloomers, here is where things stand.

I was very disappointed with Friday's letter to the editor "Only Trump can save our American way of life."

Conservatives targeted the U.S. Supreme Court for decades with their presidential votes based on abortion. Donald Trump in 2016 offered conservative voters their preferred judges if they gave him their votes.

In a much larger view than individual states banning travel for abortion, the notion that one aspect of obstetric care can be separated from a woman's body and guided by laws across 50 individual states ignores a very real health…

Phil Hands' cartoon in last Sunday's Wisconsin State Journal was way off base. It depicted current Madison residents as old fuddy-duddies and city committees as out of touch bureaucrats. His cartoon showed developers as innocent tykes building sandcastles.