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VERONA — Lauren Olson and Morgann Harbort provided a solid one-two punch, combining for six hits to ignite DeForest’s offensive attack Saturday morning.

GREEN BAY — A slim third-inning lead was no match for eight unanswered runs Saturday night, and the Madison Mallards fell 8-1 to the Green Bay Bullfrogs in a Northwoods League amateur baseball…

Senior Julia Zach scored twice Saturday as the visiting Kettle Moraine girls soccer team defeated Middleton 4-1 in a WIAA Division 1 sectional final at Firefighters Park.

MOUNT HOREB — Heading into Saturday’s game, coach Mark Newman and the Mount Horeb girls soccer team understood what it would take to secure a state tournament berth.

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MILWAUKEE — Yunel Escobar and Wilson Ramos hit two-run homers and Bryce Harper continued his offensive surge by driving in two runs.

State-by-state rankings of economic activity depend on what’s measured and how.

The medical examiner has been sent to the scene where the victim was found in the 5300 block of Highway DM.

The University of Wisconsin football team picked up a pair of commitments Saturday, when linebackers Noah Burks and Dallas Jeanty decided to join the Badgers’ 2016 recruiting class.

Two people sustained severe injuries in a rollover crash Saturday morning near Waupun, authorities said.

The Pumas, in their seventh state title game, come up a run short after leaving 11 runners on base in a loss to the Spartans.

In his column last Sunday, "Stop kicking the can down the highway," Mitch Henck mischaracterized my role in highway projects 20 and 30 years ago.

Undeniably, the University of Wisconsin System continues to play a key role in the state economy through its invigoration of business and its direct cash flow. The historic legislative support…

The recent state budget debate about how to fund the transportation network is a prime example of politics that have jumped the track of reasonableness.

Those living in the tenuous 21st century economy must be shaking their heads over the "firestorm" debate in progress at our great university on the medieval notion of tenure (which is basicall…

Do our governor and our legislators really have a plan for Wisconsin, a plan that identifies where we are and where we want to go? The planning process should precede the budget process, not t…

I got my bachelor of science degree at UW-Madison in economics, and I believe in the ideals of entrepreneurship and free markets as much as anybody. But conservatives and those who believe in …

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About 8.3 percent of licensed physicians could not prove they met Wisconsin's continuing education requirements.

A 65-year-old Oconomowoc man was fatally injured in a crash on Interstate 90 early Saturday morning, authorities said.