Increasing renewable energy generation while decreasing dependence on coal power plants in Wisconsin can lower rate-payer's energy costs, according to a report presented to legislators Monday.
Hundreds of students and members of the Student Labor Action Coalition protested Chancellor David Ward's decision to enter a mediation period with adidas over allegations that it owes former Indonesian workers $1.8 million in severance pay.
Anthony Shadid was the best of all of us.
A Dane County judge denied Gov. Scott Walker's request Friday for a two-week extension on the deadline to challenge recall petitions filed against him.
Republicans decided last week to fast-track the Assembly version of a bill reducing regulations on iron-ore mining in Wisconsin instead of going forward with a more moderate Senate version proposed last week.
Despite reports the Wisconsin high school boys' and girls' basketball tournaments would be moved to the Resch Center in Green Bay indefinitely starting next year, members of the UW-Madison athletic board said Friday they are still hopeful the tournament will stay in Madison.
In a rare move, state senators from opposite sides of the aisle teamed up to propose legislation Friday that would ensure the redistricting process, done every ten years, is nonpartisan.
After police Tasered a Madison man who resisted arrest, officers used pepper spray on a rowdy crowd preventing police from leaving with the suspect late Saturday night.
The world lost one of its greatest storytellers Thursday when New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid died of an asthma attack while on assignment in Syria.
The Student Services Finance Committee denied UW-Madison's Rec Sports and the Wisconsin Union's budget requests Thursday, freezing the groups' funds at the amount they received last year.
Documents revealed under court order Thursday showed that private attorneys hired to help Republican legislators with redistricting broke down Hispanic voting districts, scripted favorable testimony and more.
UW-Madison announced Thursday university officials are considering creating a College of the Arts.
After being held in Madison for nearly a century, Wisconsin's high school state basketball tournament is moving to the Resch Center in Green Bay starting next spring, the Wisconsin State Journal reported Thursday.
Legislation concerned with political ethics proposed by Assembly Democrats met stiff opposition Thursday, touching off debate on the state of Wisconsin's economy and the current session's legislative record.
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald dissolved the state Senate's Mining Jobs Committee Wednesday, putting the Assembly version of a controversial mining bill on the fast track to a floor vote.
Anyone who tunes in to CBS this Sunday at 7 p.m. will see one of UW-Madison's assistant professors compete alongside his wife for a $1 million prize through a series of physical and mental challenges on the "The Amazing Race."
Participants will brave the icy Lake Monona waters Saturday in the 13th annual Special Olympics Polar Plunge to raise money for local Special Olympic athletes.
Dane County leaders proposed Thursday to eliminate a fee for residents who need to obtain birth certificate copies to vote.
A public meeting to discuss a $67.5 million project to expand a gas-fired heating and cooling plant on the west side of UW-Madison's campus will take place March 1.
In the midst of widespread revolt against Chinese rule in Tibet, UW-Madison’s students joined hundreds of demonstrators from Madison, Minnesota and Chicago to protest the visit of the Chinese vice president in Iowa Wednesday. This is the last of a three-part series exploring the issue.
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