The University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletic Board approved Friday a budget of more than $133 million for the university’s athletic department next year.
Gov. Scott Walker released more details of his Feb. 20 budget plans Sunday, announcing he would allocate $475.6 million to education reforms such as skills development and performance-based initiatives in K-12 and higher education.
An empty lot on the 800 block of East Washington Avenue will be the site of a new building constructed within the next few years to provide housing, commercial properties and a grocery store to nearby residents, according to a city release.
Occupy Madison members will be allowed to stay at Token Creek until March 17 after 13 campers accepted a permit deadline extension deal from the county Friday.
Organizers of “Revelry,” the new end-of-the-year campus celebration, announced Friday the event will take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 4.
The Madison Fire Department responded to two separate accidents at different construction sites Friday, according to a city news release.
Despite the nonpartisan status of the judicial branch, party politics has once again infiltrated a Wisconsin Supreme Court election.
Madison police discussed expanding the range of police presence during May’s Mifflin Street Block party at a neighborhood meeting Thursday as part of a security plan that remains tentative until student leaders release final details for a university event scheduled the same day.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Assistants’ Association and Madison Teachers Incorporated, among other unions, organized a rally of about 100 people Thursday to commemorate the second anniversary of the 2011 Capitol protests and call for solidarity against current and impending union and education issues they say Gov. Scott Walker’s leadership created.
A recent University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee public opinion poll about Wisconsin’s economy released Thursday reported a slight majority of residents feel the potential environmental consequences of a proposed northern Wisconsin mine outweigh its economic benefit.
The Student Services Finance Committee voted to approve more than $13 million in student segregated fee funding for the 2013-’14 University Health Services budget, which will help fund new health and wellness services for students.
Several state senators sparred over a Democratic proposal to impose taxes on iron extracted from Wisconsin mines, adding another wrinkle to the contentious mining debate currently unfolding in the state.
From UFO sightings to reports of alien activity, scientists have searched for answers to questions about extra-terrestrial life for decades.
Renowned New York Times journalist Nick Kristof selected a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate Thursday to join him overseas on a journalism tour as part of his eighth annual “Win a Trip with Nick Kristof Contest.”
Madison police arrested a suspect for armed robbery Wednesday after they tracked a stolen MacBook to his location at a warming shelter.
Downtown establishments T. Sushi and Essen Haus faced concerns from a city alcohol policy committee Wednesday after they requested approval to alter their restaurants.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Council passed legislation Wednesday to place the newly proposed ASM constitution on the spring 2013 election ballot, making it’s implementation subject to student body approval.
Gov. Scott Walker announced Wednesday he would not follow a federally recommended expansion to reform BadgerCare, Wisconsin’s Medicaid system, but instead would take a different approach by shifting the demographics of Medicaid recipients, a move Democrats heavily criticized.
A year-round farmer’s market could open in Madison as early as summer 2015 to give nearby food and craft producers an opportunity to sell their goods at a new indoor facility.
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley released a memo Wednesday in which she recused herself from disciplinary proceedings against Supreme Court Justice David Prosser and revealed Prosser’s allegedly aggressive office history.
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