Wisconsin farms and agricultural businesses have been busy at work cultivating $88.3 billion in economic activity and more than 413,500 jobs in 2012.
UW-Madison student Hannah Kinsella lobbied U.S. Sen.Tammy Baldwin’s, D-Wis., office Sept. 19, pushing for greater transparency on how schools and students enter into agreements with financial institutions.
Saturday saw a record number of rushing yards for Wisconsin, but running onto the field before anyone else and guiding a charge of more than 300 student musicians was Eva Glisczinski, UW-Madison’s marching band drum major.
The UW-Madison Police Department and the Madison Fire Department extinguished a vehicle on fire early Saturday morning, according to a UWPD crime alert.
The UW-Madison Police Department saw a slight increase in the number of ejections and citations issued during Saturday’s football game against Bowling Green, according to a UWPD report.
The UW-Milwaukee chapter of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity came under fire Friday after police searched the house for evidence of members using date-rape drugs on female partygoers, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
A 20-year-old female Madison resident was shot when trying to prevent a suicide early Saturday morning at a residence on University Avenue, according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
A Cousins Subs employee was robbed when transporting an undisclosed amount of money from the business Saturday, according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
Dane County officials rejected the new, government-recommended ballot for November’s election in favor of its traditional counterpart, Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell said Friday.
With the November election just over a month away, Madison’s Equal Opportunities Commission met Thursday to address gender gaps in candidacies as well as voter ID implementation concerns.
A Madison man’s intrusion woke two 22-year-old women after he entered an apartment on the 200 block of North Pinckney Street early Thursday morning, according to Madison Police Department Public Information Officer Joel DeSpain.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chemistry Professor Helen Blackwell has been studying quorum-sensing, a molecular signaling system that enables bacteria to function as communicative organisms, for more than ten years, according to a Thursday university press release.
Madison Police are currently investigating the robbery of a 33-year-old woman on the top level of the Overture Center Ramp Wednesday night.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers conducted a study, which revealed additional knowledge about the relationship between Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease, according to a university press release.
Student Services Finance Committee approved funding eligibility for the Campus Women’s Center at its meeting Thursday.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday that Wisconsin produced a one percent increase in employment and a 2.9 percent increase in weekly wage rate from March 2013 to March 2014.
U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., introduced the Student Loan Interest Deduction Fairness Act Thursday, which would allow married couples to access the same tax deduction for interest paid on student loans as individuals, according to a press release.
The University of Wisconsin System created a website this week devoted to answering students’ questions about the new state voting requirements.
The city’s Alcohol License Review Committee considered a request from Madhatter’s Bar to increase the bar capacity from 200 to 320 occupants and decided to prolong a house party ordinance, during a meeting Wednesday.
A somber look hangs from John Thomas’s face as he leans against a street lamp, selling copies of Street Pulse to pedestrians. I approach him, nervous he will turn down my requests for an interview as multiple people already had, but the notion delights him. A wide smile quickly chases the shadows away from his face as he divulges, with astounding honesty, the details of his past and present circumstances.
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