Concerns over flooding have been raised after a wave of warm weather swept through the Madison area, causing large amounts of snow to melt.
A body was found floating in Lake Mendota near Lake Street early Friday morning.
Dane County Executive Joe Parisi made his first-ever endorsement of a political candidate Tuesday, throwing his support behind Madison mayoral candidate Satya Rhodes-Conway.
Following a complaint filed against Madison Mayor Paul Soglin by a former city employee, City Assessor Michelle Drea responded with evidence that the alleged action would be impossible to execute.
Stolen cars and fatal heroin overdoses have been on the rise in Madison since the beginning of 2019, according to Madison Police Department Chief Mike Koval.
Madison Ald. David Ahrens, District 15, will run for a vacant seat on the Dane County Board of Supervisors, he told the Cap Times Thursday.
A total of $77.4 million will flow into expand UW-Madison’s Exhibition Hall at the Alliant Energy Center, according to Gov. Tony Evers.
When the dust settled on Feb. 19 and every primary vote was counted, Satya Rhodes-Conway heard what she had been hoping to hear for the past eight months: she would be running for mayor in the general election in April.
Whitehorse Middle School acting principal and “positive behavior support coach” Rob Mueller-Owens — the perpetrator of perfume-sparked student abuse report — faces no criminal charges, says the district attorney Monday.
At least two were hospitalized and one man was arrested as three different incidents involving guns broke out in the Madison area this weekend, according to police.
In response to ongoing community outrage over recent acts of racism at several local schools, Madison Metropolitan School District Superintendent Jennifer Cheatham released a public statement Thursday addressing new school policy changes.
Testimony devolved into shouting, which in turn devolved into threats of removal at a Madison City Council meeting Tuesday, as the debate over funding for a Hmong therapy program spilled into a public quarrel.
Former candidate for mayor Toriana Pettaway has been placed on paid leave from her position as Madison’s racial equity coordinator as a result of working during an unpaid three-day suspension last week.
Madison police made several arrests late last week and over the weekend involving a number of robberies and a fight with a drug dealer.
The man arrested for assaulting a UW-Madison student on Langdon Street in early February made his initial appearance in court Wednesday, where he was charged with five felonies.
The Madison mayoral spring primary had a higher turnout than past years, up 59 percent from 2015, with incumbent mayor Paul Soglin set to face off against Satya Rhodes-Conway in the coming general election April 2.
A Madison man is expected to appear in court this week after homemade explosives believed to be a plot to attack UW-Madison were found in his apartment last year.
Seven months after he announced he would not seek another term, Madison Mayor Paul Soglin emerged victorious in the city’s municipal primary election Tuesday, setting up a race between himself and former Ald. Satya Rhodes-Conway.
Candidates are making their final pitches to voters ahead of Tuesday’s municipal primary elections to decide who will be on the ballot for mayor, City Council and School Board in the general election in April. Residents across Madison will have their choice of five candidates for mayor on the ballot: incumbent mayor Paul Soglin, District 10 Ald. Mo Cheeks, managing director for the Mayors Innovation Project Satya Rhodes-Conway, River Alliance of Wisconsin executive director Raj Shukla and local comedian Nick Hart.
The Dane County sheriff’s office is searching for a prisoner after he failed to return from a work release program Saturday. According to multiple local news outlets, inmate Aaron Kiel was participating in a work release program at Just Bakery in east Madison, but did not return to the jail by the end of the day. He is serving time for possession of cocaine, criminal damage to property and battery.
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