Although the city and county told Occupy Madison residents they would have to leave their encampment at a county park by Tuesday at noon, people remained at the site as of 7 p.m. Tuesday.
A Madison alderperson hosted a vigil in Madison’s Marquette neighborhood Tuesday night in memory of Paul Heenan who was shot and killed by a Madison officer Friday.
On the second night of the Associated Students of Madison’s Shared Governance Week of Action, approximately 30 students and campus community members engaged in a conversation about campus transportation Tuesday.
To prevent pedestrians from jaywalking, members of the Madison Police Department Traffic Enforcement Safety Team were positioned on the corner of Park St. and Johnson St. on Tuesday to educate pedestrians on correct procedures for crossing busy intersections.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Judiciary ruled Tuesday in favor of the Student Services Finance Committee in a dispute over allegations made by the Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow.
As Wisconsin’s state government gears up for the start of its 2013 session, state Rep. Robin Vos, R-Rochester, was elected Assembly Speaker and state Sen. Chris Larson was chosen as Minority Leader of the state Senate Tuesday.
State Sen. Jessica King, D-Oshkosh, conceded defeat Tuesday in her re-election race against Rick Gudex, congratulating her challenger and thanking supporters.
A group of Democratic national legislators from Wisconsin sent Gov. Scott Walker a letter Tuesday urging him to pursue a state-based health insurance exchange as the Nov. 16 deadline to report a plan to implement the Affordable Care Act approaches.
Students should not be alarmed if they see large smoke clouds coming from the Lakeshore area in the next week or two as the University of Wisconsin-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve will receive prescribed burnings to restore and manage the prairies with weather permitting, according to a statement released by the university.
A man who was shot and killed by a Madison police officer Friday was not a burglar but a new neighborhood resident who entered the wrong house, Madison Police Chief Noble Wray confirmed at a press conference Monday.
At a last-minute press conference Monday, Mayor Paul Soglin introduced a set of substitute amendments to both the proposed 2013 operating and capital budgets, one of which would increase how much funding the city will allocate to the Overture Center for the Arts.
The Academic Staff Assembly voted Monday to support the implementation of the Human Resources redesign, becoming the first campus governing body to formally accept the plan thus far.
A joint city and campus area planning committee met Monday to review construction and renovation projects around the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
As part of the Associated Students of Madison’s Shared Governance Week of Action, a panel of University of Wisconsin-Madison campus leaders addressed diversity and climate issues Monday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was named among the top 10 universities in the nation Monday for the number of students studying abroad for 2010-’11 academic year, according to the 2012 Open Doors Report on International Education Exchange.
Madison police arrested a Madison man for beating another man on the 400 block of West Gilman Street early Sunday morning.
The Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives and First Wave dedicated their eighth-annual “Passing the Mic” showcase to the late First Wave performer John “Vietnam” Nguyen, who drowned in Lake Mendota in August.
The Badger Herald will discontinue printing Friday issues of its newspaper beginning this week.
Tuesday night’s election results were a ringing reminder for the Republican Party that it has had a difficult time finding an appealing message for young voters since the late 1980s, as exit polls showed President Barack Obama won the 18-to-29-year-old demographic.
Madison’s city Council will deliberate and vote on Mayor Paul Soglin’s proposed operating and capital budgets for 2013, including a set of amendments packaged together, during three upcoming meetings this week.
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