The Madison Common Council worked well into the night Tuesday, voting 12 to 6 in favor of adopting a $200 million downtown redevelopment plan during a special session.
The City of Madison began an online competition between businesses and nonprofits Monday to increase environmental sustainability initiatives, in an effort to win a monetary prize.
The well-known coffee shop Steep & Brew closed its flagship State Street location Tuesday after more than 30 years of business in downtown Madison.
Dane County Executive Joe Parisi released an expansion plan Monday to provide additional mental health services for youth in all Madison elementary and middle schools.
Recent UW-Madison graduate Hayley Young launched a campaign Tuesday for the campus-area District 5 seat on the Dane County Board of Supervisors.
“Give me something good and I won’t mess that up,” declares Drew Baker, not only the proud co-owner of Taco Bros. restaurant, established this April on the 600 block of University Avenue, but also the co-owner of Love Rock Farm, a Community Supported Agriculture farm in New Glarus, Wis.
Madison police recently received a report of an attempted sexual assault on the Capital City State Trail from last April, near the same location of an attempted homicide earlier this month.
As Madison’s Common Council prepares to vote on a proposal that would kickstart the development of Judge Doyle Square, alders raised several questions at a discussion Thursday that weigh heavily on the upcoming vote.
After an extensive search, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced the purchase of a property on Madison’s Near East Side for a permanent homeless day center.
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin released details on the public funding for the downtown Judge Doyle Square project, saying the city’s investment represents 25 percent of the total development costs.
When Madison area native Austin White-Pentony accidentally cracked is grandfather’s cell phone during a Brewers game, he had to decide whether to repair the phone or sell it and buy a new one.
Seven more reports have been filed to Madison police, in connection with a June ATM fraud incident at an Associated Bank branch near campus.
Madison police arrested a 35-year-old homeless man for battery of a transgender woman on State Street early Friday morning.
Andrea Irwin—the mother of Tony Robinson, who died after an altercation with a Madison police officer in March—criticized the treatment her family received from law enforcement following the incident during a community panel discussion Monday.
Though tensions filled the room between property owners and city leaders Monday, the Plan Commission unanimously approved a proposal to build a new downtown park.
City officials will begin deliberations Monday to decide whether to condemn several properties on the corner of North Bassett Street and West Mifflin Street to build a neighborhood park.
The Dane County Board of Supervisors unveiled a report Sept. 18 detailing recommendations to improve racial disparities and the treatment of mental health in the criminal justice system.
As rain flooded the streets Thursday night, so did hundreds of people who marched through a torrential downpour, shouting chants like “out of the halls and into the streets, we won’t be raped, we won’t be beat” and “however we dress, wherever we go, yes means yes and no means no.”
UW-Madison and the City of Madison will join more than 20 other city-university partnerships as beneficiaries of a $1 million grant to launch a program coordinating efforts of research and funding between academic institutions and their communities.
Some downtown restaurant and retail owners voiced their opposition to Madison Mayor Paul Soglin’s proposal to increase license fees for downtown sidewalk patios in recent weeks.
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