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Establishing Madison Area Technical College programs on Madison's South Side would be cost ineffective and, more important, would limit the number of programs available to the area's residents.

This right-to-work law has a very misleading name.

If you want to know what's wrong with Washington, D.C., just watch the Republican majority in the U.S. Senate refuse to do its constitutional duties in the Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination.

I found Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley's defeat of Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg to be a particularly disappointing indicator of the political environment of our state. It appears a significant part of our electorate cares more about ideology than expertise.

The crisis is nearer than most people think. Is it a crisis of capitalism? Is it a crisis of democracy? Maybe both.

Ed Wall was terminated Friday from his job at the Justice Department after disputing a demotion from his old job.

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

The Bruce Company, one of the nation’s Top 100 landscape contract businesses and the largest in Wisconsin, has bought Verona-based Landscape Care Company.

MOUNT HOREB - Melvin "Mel" Gruber, age 82, died on Friday, April 15, 2016, at Ingleside Nursing Home. Funeral arrangements are pending at the Ellestad Camacho Funeral Home, 500 N. 8th St., Mount Horeb.

MADISON - James H. "Jim" Kiffel, age 81, passed away at his residence, surrounded by his loving family. A full obituary will appear in Sunday's paper.

MADISON - Betty Josephine Wilcox, age 87, died on April 15, 2016, from Alzheimer's disease.

By the next day, Bill Clinton was feeling remorse. Almost.

UW-Madison's campus police chief apologized Friday for the disruption caused by an officer who entered a class to contact a student suspected in a string of anti-racist graffiti.

The Bucks lost a tiebreaker to the Kings and Nuggets and will have the 10th-best lottery odds.

It would be a challenge to find anyone complaining about the nearly perfect spring weather in Madison, and the beautiful conditions should last for another week.

As productive as the Badgers’ defense was under former UW coordinator Dave Aranda the past three seasons, turnovers wasn’t one of the areas it excelled in.

A Dane County judge on Friday affirmed a decision he made last week throwing out the law, ruling unions have property rights to collect fees for the services they provide to union members and nonmembers alike.

The massive rebuild of Interstate 39/90 from Illinois to Madison will claim two ramps near Stoughton starting on Monday, forcing drivers to use alternate routes.

The three-year trial was approved Friday by NBA owners and will take effect when the league's contract with Nike begins.

Underground utility construction will force the closure of the southbound side of North Hamilton Street at East Mifflin Street next week.