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The fire response shut down Atwood Avenue between Fair Oaks Avenue and Elmside Street.

February isn’t the ideal month for workers into dive into the Mississippi River and upgrade transportation infrastructure, but Jim Cook says there’s no choice.

The suspect, who knows the person he stabbed, was not at the scene when officers arrived.

The Madison School Board on Monday chose a name that honors a well-known, active supporter of education who grew up on the South Side:

"Joe Turner's Come and Gone" takes place in 1911, the start of a new century when many Black Americans fled the Jim Crow South for the industrial North.

Writing a weekly column is always a snapshot in time. Things can and do happen to advance the story. Here are a few examples.

A key Republican lawmaker and the university disagree on when the clock started ticking on the two-year timeline.

Of UW-Madison's top 10 research grants from the National Institutes of Health, for which Trump announced a big cut, five involve dementia, including the top three.

The postseason soon begins for nearly two dozen local teams, all of which have their eyes set on advancement. Here's where each team is seeded heading into playoff action.

Personal best scores, some nearly two years in the making, highlighted this week's high school gymnastics conference meets. Vote for your favorite of the performance as the Supernova.

As I'm about to be bombarded with more negative ads in the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court, I decided to go to the candidate's web pages.

Totalitarianism never arises fully formed. There are transitional phases. Though our country is not yet totalitarian, President Donald Trump's administration is driving us in that direction. In just a month, our country has experienced a radical economic, political and cultural…

Brendon Conway, spokesperson for WEC Energy Group, representing utilities across four states, has this to say about the ongoing buildout of more methane-fired electricity generation:

Recent articles in the Wisconsin State Journal have described the impacts of the cap on the funding of indirect costs for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

Blake Perkins fractured his left shin and likely will miss the first month of the regular season.

The 60-year-old man died in a farmhouse fire on Feb. 19 in the town of Springfield.

Two people were arrested in the incident that began off campus.

The Badgers' meltdown against the Ducks did not impact their standing in the poll, but ranked teams from the Big Ten shuffled up and down the rankings.

The McKenzie Foundation has withdrawn its proposal for the Forward Career & College Academy following concerns raised last week by the Madison School District.

The city recently announced a goal of adding 3,750 units of affordable housing by 2030.