Madison’s Urban Design Commission delayed approval for the Hub at Madison II and heard new plans from the developers of construction for Madison College in a meeting Wednesday.
Callers reported to the Madison Police Department four separate incidents of shots fired in the city starting at 9 p.m. Tuesday, according to an incident report.
Spurred by public testimony that warned against “one-size-fits-all” approaches, the Common Council reconsidered an ordinance that would ban sex offenders from living near schools, during their meeting Tuesday night.
The City Clerk of Madison swore in seven new alders as well as the Common Council president and president protem Tuesday at the City-County Building. They will join 13 alders already on the 20-alder council.
Following the latest shooting incident early Saturday morning at State Street Brats, the downtown Madison area may no longer be considered immune from citywide gang violence, according to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4.
Members of Madison’s Plan Commission unanimously approved a proposal Monday to rezone a downtown area from a housing friendly residential zone to a commercial friendly mixed-use one.
City officials were caught between competing ideals Tuesday, when a protest organized by Madison West and East High School students regarding Tony Robinson's death shut down traffic on East Washington Avenue for several hours.
A new batch of more diverse Madison City Council members, including the city’s first black women to serve as alders, are preparing to “hit the ground running” April 21.
Police arrested five Madison teenagers for multiple acts of vandalism committed in the city’s West District two months ago, according to a Madison Police Department statement released Wednesday.
Madison’s Alcohol License Review Committee granted an alcohol sales license to the Freiburg Gastropub, a new gastro-style pub being built on the 2600 block of Monroe Street, in a Wednesday meeting.
Students from both Madison East and West High Schools participated in coordinated nationwide protests against police brutality Tuesday, blocking East Washington Avenue from 10:45 a.m. until 6:30 p.m., according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
A city committee approved a proposal to make much of the campus residential area glass-free for the weekend of the Revelry Music and Arts Festival and the Mifflin Street Block Party, according to Madison Police Department spokesperson Emily Hardiman.
Madison’s Board of Estimates sparred during its meeting Monday night over development plans for the abandoned Garver Feed Mill on the edge of the Olbrich Botanical Gardens.
A statement from the Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed the body found in Lake Mendota Saturday afternoon to be 23-year-old Jacob D. Payne of Fitchburg.
A $25,000 grant from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation is expected to help improve pedestrian safety, according to a UW-Madison Police Department press release.
Multiple callers reported hearing shots in the Park Street and Regent Street area in the early hours of Sunday morning, but responding Madison Police Department officers could not find any evidence supporting the reports.
A body was found in Lake Mendota near Governor’s Island Saturday afternoon, according to an official within Dane County Communications Center, who remembered the incident.
Madison police officers issued a citation to a driver for failing to yield to a pedestrian at the intersection of North Frances Street and West Johnson Street early Friday morning, according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
A 22-year-old student encountered two men in the University Avenue and North Bassett Street area early Sunday, resulting in one of the men hitting the student for “no apparent reason,” according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
A coalition of law enforcement agencies seized approximately $40,000 in drugs at two residences in the Madison area Thursday morning, in the culmination of “Operation Hog Day,” according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
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