Madison voters head back to the polls today to narrow the candidates for state superintendent and several City Council seats.

Gov. Tony Evers is proposing a nearly $500 million plan to overhaul the state’s adult and youth corrections system, with an eye toward closing the state’s second-oldest prison by 2030. The move, part ...

Back in December a number of different parties, including the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, environmental organizations, and the Wisconsin League of Women Voters, issued legal challenges ...

Dear Editor: The current Trump administration and his Republican allies have revealed an ugly truth about human nature: that what we want to believe can be more important than the truth or ...

Dear Editor: Do you know where your birth certificate is? How about your passport? If the Republican Party passes the SAVE Act and you can’t produce one of these, you’ll be turned away at the polls in ...

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From ridiculous stepsisters to top-tier costume transformations, Children’s Theater of Madison’s “Cinderella” is an absolute ball. CTM’s production, modeled after the 1997 television adaptation of ...

Dear Editor: If you read the report that Paul Fanlund quoted extensively in his Feb. 7 column, it seems to describe people who watch and totally buy into the propaganda on Fox News and other ...

Wisconsin voters will narrow the candidates for state superintendent in the Feb. 18 primary election, the same day Gov. Tony Evers is slated to announce his latest state budget proposal. As in ...

Fog and lightning set a hauntingly beautiful scene at Madison Ballet’s “Mozart and More,” now running in MYArts’ Starlight Theater. Dancers reveal themselves and enter from unexpected places, as the ...

Straight out of undergraduate school at Carleton College, I served for two years in rural West Africa with the Peace Corps. I was motivated by vague but sincere altruism. After law and graduate ...

Dear Editor: The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 was a federal law that established a merit-based system for hiring and maintaining federal employees. It was in response to widespread ...