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When Bronson Koenig puts on his #24 Wisconsin Badger uniform, he's representing more than just the Badgers, or even the state of Wisconsin. He's representing a whole nation.

For the first time ever, the Ho-Chunk Nation is establishing a minimum wage for all employees.

District officials are asking taxpayers to approve a multi-million dollar referendum. The proposal is an update to a referendum that failed last year.

A VA medical center in Tomah accused of rampantly overprescribing painkillers was expected to be a focus of a U.S. Senate hearing Thursday, with several Department of Veterans Affairs officials scheduled to testify.

The chairman of the legislative committee overseeing Minnesota's lottery says he wasn't told about a drunken driving charge against a top lottery administrator that happened several months ago.

A man who went missing just before Christmas was found dead in the woods on Saturday.

The Wisconsin Public Service Commission (PSC) voted Thursday to approve the Badger Coulee Transmission Line Project, selecting the northern route through the Town of Holland.

Milwaukee police say two boys in a speeding stolen car were killed when the driver ran a stop sign and collided with another car.

A 28.6-pound cabbage grown by a central Wisconsin girl has won an annual statewide growing contest for third-graders.

Authorities are seeking the public's help in identifying the driver of a blue minivan involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash in Milwaukee.

A Wisconsin appeals court has let the air out of a lawsuit brought by a woman injured by a runaway hot air balloon.

Three southern Minnesota residents have helped a dog who had been running loose with his head stuck inside a plastic jug.

A 14-year-old reported missing was found dead in a Trempealeau County creek with his overturned ATV on Thursday morning.

An Onalaska police K-9 unit found marijuana in vehicles at Onalaska High School Wednesday.

Wisconsin's chamber of commerce is backing a Republican plan in the state Legislature to repeal the personal property tax on business equipment.

A Weston man is accused of intentionally burning his girlfriend's young son.

World Services of La Crosse is giving the award.

The new bill would mean new safety regulations for trains carrying crude oil.

The University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute came out with its latest county health rankings.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Somewhere at the bottom of a pile of giddy Milwaukee Bucks on the floor of the Bradley Center, Khris Middleton laughed and smiled with his teammates.