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It began when the late-night talk show host aired a clip of a contentious town hall meeting with Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Fitzgerald.

The call reporting the homicide came in at 12:08 a.m., the Dane County Sheriff’s Office reported.

As the Thursday sunshine melted away Wednesday's precipitation, the city of Madison unveiled its latest plow names.

A Tomah-born filmmaker is in the midst of an ambitious, multi-year project to create a film for every month of the year that tell the stories of Wisconsin and its people.

"It’s a low-pressure way for you to feel like you’re doing something good for your brain,” Nerd Nite co-host Haley Briel said.

"His murder wasn't just like watching something or witnessing something," a childhood friend said. "It brought us together, it broke a lot of us apart."

While Greg Gard's former point guard has put together his best season yet at Louisville, the Badgers coach's team didn't skip a beat.

The Badgers close out their regular season at the Kohl Center on Saturday. Here's what to know about the Nittany Lions.

The Badgers will close out their regular season against the Nittany Lions.

Don't forget to move your clocks forward an hour this weekend with the switch to daylight saving time starting early Sunday morning.

The crash happened at high speed at the intersection of South Gammon Road and Raymond Road about 4:10 p.m. Thursday, authorities reported.

The crash happened shortly before noon Thursday on Highway 191, just east of Highway W in the town of Ridgeway.

In his address to Congress, President Donald Trump cleverly gave many people what they wanted to believe, which is a natural human tendency. It’s a powerful motivator when it’s connected with fear and anger.

Here is a simple solution to renaming the two Madison elementary schools: Change Elvehjem elementary school to East Elementary, and change Charles Lindbergh Elementary to North Elementary.

Madison loves education. Some 70% of voters approved two K-12 referendums last fall to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Madison's schools.

Wisconsinites face a reckoning in the April 1 general election.

Any doubt about what President Donald Trump thinks and who he wants to impress should be gone now. Over the last week, Trump has gone out of his way to let the world know he supports Russia.

Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier were 12 years old in 2014 when they lured their sixth-grade classmate, Payton Leutner, to a Waukesha park.

A former security guard at a Milwaukee hotel has pleaded guilty in the killing of a man who died after being pinned to the ground for several minutes.

In his 10th season at the helm, the Badgers coach led his team to a surprise run at a Big Ten regular-season title while overseeing a variety of changes.