Metro Transit recorded approximately 14.7 million bus rides for 2013, giving last year the second-highest ridership the company has seen since 2011, according to a city of Madison press release.
The state Senate approved an Assembly resolution Wednesday commemorating March 8, 2014 as International Women’s Day.The resolution called for a symbolic gesture to show Wisconsin’s commitment to women’s issues and gender equality.
Gov. Scott Walker said Tuesday he would call a special legislative session if the Wisconsin Supreme Court does not uphold the state’s voter ID law.
The American Civil Liberties Union withdrew its request to temporarily freeze Wisconsin’s gay marriage ban Tuesday.
The state Senate passed a package of bills Wednesday that would limit absentee voting times and change rules relating to election officials.
The state Senate debated a number of bills Tuesday that would change Wisconsin’s voting and campaign fundraising rules.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will host Showcase, an event focused on underscoring successful campus advances, according to a Tuesday university press release.
Members of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Student Labor Action Coalition delivered a cardboard replica of a clock tower to Chancellor Rebecca Blank Tuesday, urging her to sign an agreement on behalf of UW-Madison that would protect Bangladeshi garment workers’ rights.
Discovery to Product (D2P), a University of Wisconsin-Madison project that aims to bring scientific and technological university innovations into the market, named Wisconsin entrepreneur John Biondi its director, according to a Tuesday university press release.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison may consider establishing new procedures for investigating sexual assault cases on campus. The Division of Student Life proposed the draft in a University Affairs meeting Tuesday.
Gov. Scott Walker and Wisconsin Secretary of Tourism Stephanie Klett recognized Madison’s Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center for exceptional charitable services with the Governor’s Tourism Service Excellence Award at a reception in Lake Geneva Monday.
The city’s Plan Commission discussed amendments for the Alcohol Overlay District and approved a mixed-use building on East Washington Avenue Monday.
An Academic Staff representative raised concerns at an assembly meeting Monday regarding a committee appointment made last month by the Academic Staff Executive Committee.
Student Services Finance Committee members continued to analyze and amend the recently created eligibility criteria draft at a meeting Monday, with efforts aimed at creating a final draft.
Anti-abortion groups responded Monday to the Common Council’s unanimous approval Feb. 25 of a buffer zone ordinance establishing restricted areas around health care facilities.
Police arrested a Madison man and woman for armed robbery after they beat a 31-year-old man in a residence on Williamson Street Sunday morning, according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
The state Senate will take up a set of controversial Republican voting bills in a packed session Tuesday, which have drawn criticism from Democrats.
Twelve University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate students will present their research at the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda to legislators Wednesday, according to a university press release.
A recently established Sigma Alpha Epsilon policy known as the True Gentleman Experience eliminated the fraternity’s new-member process, removing the pledge status throughout all chapters and colonies of the fraternity Sunday, according to a press release from SAE’s national office.
The recently released lineup for the Revelry Music and Arts Festival has received mixed reactions from students and festival organizers.
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