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GREEN BAY — An entire nation waited for the Green Bay Packers’ second-round pick in the NFL draft Friday night.

Taylor-Paige Stewart was solid in long relief and the University of Wisconsin softball team’s offense did just enough Friday to produce a 5-1 victory against Rutgers in the opener of a three-g…

The Middleton boys golf team held off Mequon Homestead by one stroke and Madison Edgewood by four Friday to win the 15-team Onalaska Invitational at La Crosse Country Club.

“I can’t even explain to you what I’m feeling right now,” Havenstein said. “It’s unbelievable. It’s been a lot of hard work for a lot of years. This is a young man’s dream. For that to turn in…

A four-year point guard for the RedHawks, Rollins turned heads in his one season at cornerback on the football team.

The former UW right tackle was taken on Day 2 of the NFL Draft.

In spite of near freezing night temperatures, the first morel fruiting bodies (mushrooms) are beginning to pop out of the sandy soil in southwest Wisconsin.

"The future of Black Earth Creek may very well depend on it (using restraint this season)," Bret Schultz, a long-time visitor to Black Earth Creek, said noting Wisconsin's inland fishing seaso…

I am so very impressed with my recent care at UW Hospital in Madison.

The homeless are often the victims of violent crime, not the perpetrators. They form an underclass, and an underclass always gets the blame. 

As a proud Ho-Chunk and lifelong Wisconsin resident, everything I care about -- wildlife, clean water, clean air and community -- is driven by our cultural values and supported by progressive science.

On March 31, I suffered a heart attack and was treated at Meriter Hospital.

I heard with shock and dismay that Madison Area Technical College President Jack Daniels wants to close the Downtown and West Side campuses.

I remember back in 1990 Wisconsin's new football coach, Barry Alvarez, said people had "better get season tickets now, because before too long, they probably won't be able to."

I question liberals being called “progressive.”

Most lakes across the North Woods are about one to two weeks past the main walleye spawning period, so the fish should be mostly recovered and getting back to active feeding. 

In total, 39 dead pheasants were recovered and 40 more were reported missing from a total of 150 penned birds.

Wily Peralta pitches well, but rookie Addison Russell's first big-league home run is the difference Friday at Wrigley Field.

A woman convicted of providing the heroin in an overdose death of a Madison man in 2008 was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for smuggling heroin to another man who was in drug treatmen…

A van and motorcycle crashed at Highway 151 and Highway DE in Dodge County Friday afternoon, seriously injuring the Madison motorcyclist.