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Steve Case says startup activity should stay strong in the nation's heartland.

Contracts for women's hockey coach Mark Johnson, wrestling coach Barry Davis and men's and women's swimming and diving coach Whitney Hite were extended on Friday.

Investigators looking into an April 8 incident used 44 minutes of surveillance video to track the alleged victim's movement from a Downtown bar to a location where she was found by police and found no evidence an assault took place.

The Tenney Locks opening will be delayed three weeks until May 20 because an electrical sensor has worn out and can't be immediately replaced.

For weeks, attention on House Speaker Paul Ryan has focused on 2016 and the prospect the Wisconsin congressman might become the beneficiary of a deadlocked Republican National Convention seeking an alternative to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. Ryan has now…

LAKE MILLS - John Gerard Schoofs died peacefully on Wednesday, April 20, 2016, at Mayo Hospital in Eau Claire.

MADISON - LeRoy F. "HOOT" Holzwarth, age 86, of Madison, passed away on Wednesday, April 20, 2016, at UW Hospital. He was born on Aug. 28, 1929, in Madison, the son of Roy and Jeanette Holzwarth. LeRoy married Elizabeth Haas…

Superintendent Jennifer Cheatham's recommendation for the 2016-17 school year now goes to the School Board.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that 94 million people in the U.S. over the age of 16 don’t have jobs and are not actively seeking employment.

This was not the way Greg Kazmierski and Cathy Stepp wanted the “new era” to begin. They gambled that none of the 72 CDACs would actually vote for an antlerless-only season.

Students should be able to loop in and out of college as needed, with more online and hybrid classes

It might be a good idea to cover sensitive plants Friday night in the Madison area.

One of the pieces of graffiti by a student protesting the climate of racism at UW didn't seem "anti-racist."

Doyle, the player of the year in Illinois last season, has narrowed her list to UW, Iowa, Indiana, Marquette, Vanderbilt and Nebraska.

This one's for John. He's a reader who took issue with my recent column arguing that conservatism has become an angry and incoherent mess.

Fitchburg police are investigating a report of a man in a car asking a 5-year-old child what school bus the child was going to use, before the man spotted an adult in the area and quickly drove away.

Lorenz and Steck earn 10th place at recent national high school competition in Missouri.

Here's how members of Wisconsin's congressional delegation voted on major issues this week.

A 79-year-old Madison man knew a scam when he heard it this week, not going along when a caller claiming to be his granddaughter told him she was in trouble and needed money right away.