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Mike McCarthy is glad general manager Brian Gutekunst recently signed two veterans.

The shortstop has mostly struggled offensively.

More people in Madison who are addicted to opioids are crashing their cars from overdoses or overdosing with other people, officials said Thursday at a town hall meeting about the opioid abuse epidemic.

Casey Fountain laced a one-out double into the left-field corner, driving in the go-ahead run in the bottom of the fifth inning of host Poynette’s WIAA Division 3 sectional title game against Dodgeville on Thursday night.

Since when has kneeling anywhere been considered an act of defiance?

The guest column in Sunday's newspaper, “Occupation of Gaza is both tragic and ironic,” offered an empathetic call to oppose the Israeli occupation of Gaza. I agree, and for many of the same reasons. What was missing from this column,…

Democrats don't know the mean of the words "campaign promise."

Chancellor of UW Colleges and UW Extension, Cathy Sandeen, who has held her statewide office since December 2014, was named chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage on Wednesday, according to a press release from UW Colleges and UW Extension.

One project, the Badger Hollow Solar Farm, would be built in Iowa County and would be one of the largest in the U.S., developers say.

Dane County and the village of McFarland are coming together on Saturday to host the first ever Parks & Trails Unite Festival, a free community festival that features the new Lower Yahara River Trail and boardwalk bridge.