The Madison police department has publicly identified the officer involved in last weekend’s police shooting after placing her on administrative leave.
Madison Democratic Reps. Chris Taylor and Terese Berceau requested an investigation into Gov. Scott Walker’s flights around Wisconsin after a group accused the governor of using state funds for these trips.
An inmate’s suicide on Monday amplifies lingering concerns about the City-County Building Jail’s safety.
The transition into college can have major effects on students' mental and physical health, but there are resources on campus to help.
Supporters of the partnership between Foxconn and UW-Madison consider it an opportunity to encourage academic research, while critics question the integrity of private funding and safe workspaces.
Dealing with nuance flooding becomes even more complicated when you live in a rental property. Teresa Mundo-Prado, program director for the Wisconsin Tenant Resource Center, shared advice on everything from working with city inspectors to filing for rent abatement for students who have been impacted by the flooding.
After more than two weeks of heavy rainfall, the City of Madison is cleaning up after damage caused by floods.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Foxconn chairman and founder, Terry Gou, announced a gift of $100 million to aid in promoting engineering and innovative research at UW-Madison in the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery Monday.
In hopes of avoiding raising tuition and student fees, the Board of Regents voted to send the requested $107 million in aid to Gov. Scott Walker in hopes of approval. This will be considered as Walker drafts the upcoming executive budget.
Suspended Badgers wide receiver Quintez Cephus’s lawyers filed a motion Wednesday to dismiss one of the sexual assault charges against him.
Junior receiver Quintez Cephus has been formally suspended from the team following the announcement of a pair of felony sexual assault charges Monday.
The Wisconsin football team will be without last year’s top receiving target for the indefinite future, following today’s announcement by junior Quintez Cephus that he is leaving the team due to “unspecified charges” possibly to come from the Dane County District Attorney’s office.
With partisan nominations for governor, U.S. Senate, lieutenant governor, Congress and most of the state Legislature on the line, more Wisconsinites turned out to vote in Tuesday’s primary election than any primary since 2002. Most major races saw longtime frontrunners pull away with expected victories. Democratic primary for governor State superintendent Tony Evers, who has been a consistent leader in name recognition, polls and party backing, pulled out a convincing win. With over 41 percent of the vote, Evers, a former school teacher, gathered more than twice the support of his opponents, trailed by firefighters’ union head Mahlon Mitchell with 16 percent and former state Rep.
With a new academic year on the horizon, returning and incoming students from two-year colleges will play a key role in determining the success of the integration of two-year and four-year institutions during a transition year.
Madison has a new plan for its future following the Common Council’s decision to adopt the City of Madison Comprehensive Plan in their meeting on August 7, a process over two years in the making. The 159 page plan, created by the city’s planning department, will attempt to shape the city’s development through the year 2040, by which time the city estimates 70,000 new people will call Madison home.
In one of the most anticipated primary elections in recent years, Wisconsinites will head to the polls Tuesday to select their party’s nominees for a swath of key races coming in the general election. Seen as a major battleground in what will likely be a decisive midterm election, the state’s voters will decide who will make the ballot for governor, U.S.
Many potential college students are worried they won't be able to afford an education. Bucky's Tuition Promise is new a program meant to help solve the problem.
Madison Police Department arrested a man early Friday morning following reports he fired a gun in a downtown parking garage. The shooting, witnessed by a private security guard, occurred after three people approached the suspect’s car in the State Street Campus Garage and appeared to have a conversation, according to an MPD incident report. As they walked away from his car, the suspect fired a shot and sped out of the garage, taking out a parking ramp stop arm in the process. Police officers near the garage heard the shot and used surveillance cameras to obtain the license plate number.
Wisconsin Union spaces that memorialized former Ku Klux Klan fraternity members could receive new names this fall, if UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank approves the Union Council resolution passed in a 7-2 vote Monday night. The council’s resolution comes after a summer’s worth of discussion and debate surrounding the Porter Butts Gallery and the Fredric March Play Circle, after a report published last spring linked those spaces’ namesakes to a 1920s campus fraternity called the Ku Klux Klan.
Madison police are searching for a suspect after a shooting occurred at a local radio station early Sunday morning. According to WORT’s Facebook page, a man wearing a hood and mask entered the station around 3 a.m.
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