Four houses in the same campus-area residential block were burglarized early Sunday morning, according to a Madison Police Department report.
The Wisconsin Science Festival starts Thursday and will continue until Sunday on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, generating a local Wisconsin feel as participants can attend sessions teaching the science behind making bratwurst and beer.
Gov. Scott Walker released workforce development initiatives and goals Wednesday for the fall legislative session committing $8.5 million for vocational job training programs.
Leaders of both state legislative houses announced Wednesday they would create special committees on Common Core standards to weigh the future education principles used in state districts.
The Daily Cardinal and other student media were invited Tuesday to tour Phase One of the Memorial Union Reinvestment Project, which is expected to finish in summer 2014.
A local police officer was penalized Thursday for operating a weapon while intoxicated earlier this year, Madison Police Department Lt. Dan Olivas said in a Professional Standard and Internal Affairs Summary.
Wisconsin K-12 students are increasingly exposed to personal financial education content through classes, according to a recent survey, which said 44 percent of school districts require students to learn about personal finance before graduating.
Wisconsin citizens would be allowed to purchase special anti-abortion license plates if an assembly bill that committee members discussed at a public hearing Tuesday were to pass through the legislature.
Madison Police Department Sergeant Jason Sweeney commended two downtown patrol officers “for the compassion and empathy” they showed to a struggling homeless family sleeping on State Street Sunday morning, according to a police report.
Gov. Scott Walker announced in a press release Tuesday that Wisconsin is now ranked second in economic growth for the first time in the state’s history, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s coincident index.
The Student Services Finance Committee did not approve 2015-’16 fiscal year funding for the MultiCultural Student Coalition Monday, amidst criticism from MCSC representatives that SSFC members are unprepared to decide on eligibility.
Gov. Scott Walker’s office sent 92,000 letters to Wisconsinites this week and received one back from U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., regarding the eventual removal of Wisconsin citizens from the state Medicaid program after Walker decided not to implement the Affordable Care Act.
The Board of Estimates unanimously approved an amendment to the 2014 Executive Capital Budget at a meeting Monday that would more than triple the amount of money allotted to downtown surveillance cameras.
Coordinators for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Alumni Association have started finalizing designs for the new Alumni Park, which could break ground summer 2014.
Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne announced Monday he would not file charges against Damon Terrell for the alleged battery of a police officer during Terrell’s arrest last month at the Solidarity Sing Along Protests in the Capitol.
In 1963 a full scholarship to play Badger football was worth $1100 a year. But, even with the help of his scholarship, University of Wisconsin-Madison alumnus Richard “Dick” LaCroix had to work harder than he ever dreamed to complete his education at UW-Madison.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Friday that would delay an impending government shutdown only if Congress eliminates funding for the Affordable Care Act.
In perhaps the cheesiest event of the season, contestants hailed from all over the country to Library Mall to engage in the only nationally sanctioned pizza-eating contest, hosted by Madison’s famous Ian’s Pizza Saturday.
A sexual aggressor fled when the college-aged woman he pushed to the ground Sunday morning near State Street kicked the suspect, according to a police report.
Although the number of underage alcohol tickets the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department issued Saturday matched the number issued at the Tennessee Tech game Sept. 7, the number of people who required medical assistance decreased significantly.
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