Wisconsin State Journal Local News

The fire was reported shortly after 2:30 p.m. in the garage of the residence at 2483 Highway E, and flames spread quickly to the home.

Fort Atkinson's Tristan Shoup also plans to play men's basketball at Beloit College.

Osceola native Charlie Danielson powers No. 2 Illinois to a big advantage over host Purdue.

The Badgers' top three boats all fall to Cal, but UW bounces back to sweep Oregon State in the Bay Area.

The University of Wisconsin varsity four picked up the Badgers’ women's rowing team's only win on the first day of the Lake Natoma Invitational in Gold River, California, beating Brown and Loyola Marymount.

When Pat Richter took over as the University of Wisconsin’s athletic director in 1989, his task to find the root of the department’s $2.1 million deficit was as swift as it was simple.

The Badgers score twice to lead off the game, but the Hawkeyes overcome the early deficit to square the three-game series at 1 apiece.

Are the huge promises made by (genetic scientists) more rhetoric than reality, or is there still hope for personalized medicine?

The Dane County Farmer's Market opened for the season on Saturday to crowds seeking food and time to socialize.

The 2016 presidential election is all but over, and the results should be obvious.

Wisconsin is awash with goats, cows and pigs. Calumet County is now the proposed site for the 35 acre Drumlin Dairy goat farm for 9,000 goats. We need to raise awareness of environmental and human disaster caused by the dairy…

There recently has been considerable media coverage and political capital spent over both the transparency of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., and the closing of Madison’s Oscar Mayer plant. These are not unimportant issues.

I found Wisconsin Department of Justice spokesman Johnny Koremonos' statement affirming the constitutionality of Wisconsin's voter ID law very enlightening. As reported in the Wednesday's State Journal, Koremonos claims the voter ID law affects only a narrow group of people:…

Now that it's been confirmed that requiring a photo ID to vote was never about fraud but just a way for Republicans to win more elections, it's time for changes to the law.

After a year’s worth of planning, a two-day 24-team tournament featuring top high school programs from Wisconsin and one from Illinois – the Freeport Pretzels, aka “the Lady Pretz” – was unveiled Friday and Saturday.

Reggie Love finished Saturday's scrimmage with nine catches for 133 yards and three touchdowns.

CHICAGO — We’ve heard for years that when it comes to African-Americans, Hispanics and low-income minority communities in general, expectations for academic achievement are low.

A woman in her sixties was injured during a robbery in Madison on Friday night, according to the Madison Police Department.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Madison police say a 2-year-old girl has died after she was critically injured in an apartment.

STOUGHTON - Marrianne Erickson, age 83, passed away on Friday, April 15, 2016, at Skaalen Home. She was born on May 21, 1932, on the family farm in Wiota, Wis., the daughter of Milven and Goldie Olson. Marrianne married Darrell…