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Botham, a former star athlete at West, took over as the Regents' athletic director last July.

A man claiming to represent a local power company is working on getting cash from area businesses by threatening to turn off the juice if cash is not sent immediately.

Highway 33 in Dodge County was down to one lane for several hours on Wednesday after a piece of equipment too tall to fit crashed into a railroad trestle.

Flarup first joined UW's athletics department in 1977 and has worked in numerous roles in her 39 years with the Badgers.

Tee times for Thursday's second and final 18-hole round of the Morgan Stanley Shootout boys golf tournament at University Ridge Golf Course:

The casual Mexican restaurant could open this weekend in a spot that has been vacant since the Mediterranean restaurant Palmyra closed in 2012.

Jeter was fired in March after 11 years as the head coach at Milwaukee.

A street fight on Madison's Southwest Side Wednesday afternoon ended in gunfire, with nobody reported injured, Madison police said.

A state drinking water study has found new contaminants that threaten human health in a Wisconsin county where a large number of wells were already tainted by pollutants linked to manure from a high concentration very large dairy farms.

Police are searching for a 14-year-old boy who reportedly went missing in the Spring Green area.

Planet Mercury's transit, or crossing, of the sun on Monday would be next to impossible, and dangerous, to see with the naked eye, so the Washburn Observatory at UW-Madison will open its doors to the public for safe viewing of…

"Mockingbird" is the final show of Children's Theater of Madison's 2015-2016 season. Performances begin Friday in The Playhouse at the Overture Center.

A new exit ramp from Interstate 39/90 to Highway 59 near Edgerton will open on Saturday, part of the massive rebuild of the major highway between Madison and the Illinois state line.

Maybe it just took a threat to their job security for them to realize the importance of the Wisconsin Idea.

Here in America we think of white asparagus as the pink elephant of the vegetable world — not even a rumor so much as a hallucination.

There's no such thing as too much sushi, and Fuji makes that case in Middleton.

Yvonne Bellay has been DATCP's animal welfare manager for 23 years.

The track has become a home away from home for Barr, who will turn 76 on Monday.

Baseball

One player found a way to stand up to the windy and chilly conditions at University Ridge Golf Course on Wednesday.