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Verona's Ryan Nameth finishes second and Madison La Follettee's Finn Gessner places third.

Belmont's Tucker Wedig, Boscobel's Dakota Kaufman and Cambridge's 3,200-meter relay team also bring home gold medals.

Mount Horeb's Nadia Williams wins the long jump and Edgerton's Alex Schmidt soars to the pole vault championship.

And the Milwaukee Bucks want a closer connection with Madison.

Only 21 states in the country grant patients full and direct access to the full scope of services that nurse practitioners are educated and trained to deliver.

I've read many differing opinions on how to get more women into engineering, but Raine Gardner's column from the May 24 Opinion page of the State Journal is one of the few that's gotten it right.

Monday's article "Nebraska is strangely conservative" highlighted it's unicameral legislature which "restricts parties power" and "forces lawmakers to work together." The report concludes with…

I understand the purpose of Phil Hands’ cartoon in Wednesday’s State Journal was to simultaneously highlight the past questionable practices of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. and to …

A Madison man was charged Friday with posting nude pictures of his ex-girlfriend on the Internet because he believed that she was cheating on him.

Gov. Scott Walker has a meeting next week with Mitt Romney.

Marchionni addressed the Dodgeville apparel retailer's shareholders meeting on Friday.

We have long supported the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, which provides government tuition subsidies for lower-income children in private schools. Though academically it hasn’t improved t…

Recent police shootings across involving mentally ill people have led to calls for more officers to receive the training.

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

BROOKFIELD - Clayton Showalter Wenger passed away early in the morning, June 1, 2015, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, Ariz., several days after emergency surgery. He was born June 2, 1976…

BLUE MOUNDS - Ivàn Michael Peterson Hernandez, 5 lbs. 7 oz. and 20 inches, was born into Heaven on Wednesday, June 3, 2015, at Upland Hills Health in Dodgeville. For 39 weeks, Ivàn grew inside…

LA CROSSE / MOUNT HOREB - Carol E. Rue, age 86, passed away Thursday, June 4, 2015, at Hillview Healthcare Center in La Crosse. She was born on March 7, 1929, to Harley Barton and Palma Olympi…

Daniel P. Fern, 20, of Edgerton, was arrested for causing injury by operating a vehicle while intoxicated after he crashed his pick-up truck into a tree on Jacobus Road around 12:45 a.m.

Regent Mark Bradley railed against the proposed changes, saying they were introduced without any consultation with the people they'd most affect -- university faculty and administrators -- and…

The UW Board of Regents on Friday approved a merger of UW Hospital and UW Medical Foundation, UW-Madison's doctor group.