The City Council voted to financially relieve a nonprofit of the debt it owes the city of Madison for two ice arenas at its Jan. 14 meeting. But the debt will only be forgiven if a new nonprofit can ...

The Madison restaurant carousel revolves into 2025 with new opportunities to try a variety of cuisines across the area. Newly opened spots include a Korean barbecue-style spot on State Street across ...

Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett says he won’t risk his office’s standing in the community by actively participating in any mass deportation operations under President-elect Donald Trump. But ...

To an applauding crowd of supporters at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this summer, now President-elect Donald Trump sowed fear and distrust of immigrants — making calls for “mass ...

According to those who keep track of such things, 2024 was another banner year for America's rich, some insist the best year ever. No other nation’s deepest pockets have watched their fortunes grow as ...

After serving 25 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, David Bintz walked out of a Wisconsin prison a free man last fall. Bintz was sentenced to life behind bars for the killing of Sandra ...

Mary Erickson fondly remembers attending La Follette High School in the 1960s. Over the years, she held onto her high school memorabilia: The pins she received as a cheerleader rooting on the Lancers, ...

Dear Editor: For decades, the suffering of beagles at Ridglan Farms has been Dane County’s best-kept secret. Thanks in large part to the brave testimony of former employees, the public now has a ...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed the 1967 National Conference on New Politics in Chicago. He took as his topic: “The Three Evils of Society: War, Racism and Poverty.” On the 96th ...

Dear Editor: On Jan. 9 the very courageous Dane County Judge Rhonda Lanford decided to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the criminal activities at Ridglan Farms. On Jan. 10 Camp Beagle in ...

Three hunting activists-- Tim Eisele, Dave Clausen and Mark Martin -- team up for a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Ideas Lab column to proclaim that a stacked panel cannot justify a sandhill crane hunting ...

Imagine the quandary of University of Wisconsin coach Luke Fickell in watching the national championship game of the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoffs. Fickell may be torn between pulling ...