The Joint Finance Committee allocated $123 million in state budget cuts for the coming year along party lines Wednesday, $46 million of which will come from the UW System.
The Muslim-Jewish Volunteer Initiative, a student organization founded last year that uses community service to bridge the gap between the two groups on campus, kicked off their semester with a meeting at Der Rathskeller Wednesday.
President Barack Obama visited a Master Lock factory in Milwaukee Wednesday where he spoke about bringing outsourced jobs back to America.
Gov. Scott Walker asked for another two-week extension Wednesday to review and challenge the approximately 1 million recall petitions signed against him.
The Student Labor Action Coalition condemned Chancellor David Ward’s announcement that the university would attempt to repair, rather than sever, relations with Adidas over for labor issues Wednesday.
A vote on a controversial proposal for the reconstruction of the 100 block of State Street was postponed Wednesday.
While many remember the Capitol protests that thrust Madison into the national spotlight one year ago as surrounding the right to collectively bargain, the movement first started as an organized action supporting UW System funding.
Crowds led by UW-Madison's Teaching Assistants' Association marched on the Capitol Tuesday to demonstrate their continued dissatisfaction one year after the first major protest against Gov. Scott Walker's reforms.
In a decision that is frustrating members of one UW-Madison student group, UW Chancellor David Ward announced Tuesday the university will enter a period of mediation with adidas in an attempt to resolve the dispute over whether or not the company owes 2,800 unemployed workers severance pay.
President Barack Obama will greet and accompany Gov. Scott Walker on a tour of a Master Lock factory when the President arrives in Milwaukee on Wednesday.
The Wisconsin State Senate voted on a bill to help more senior citizens live independently and deliberated a bill that would make it easier to build on wetlands, as well as discussing other legislation Tuesday.
A bill that eases restrictions on public sampling of homemade wine or beer in Wisconsin passed by a 32-1 vote in the state Senate Tuesday.
Police arrested a Madison man and his wife Tuesday for allegedly torturing and starving the man's 15-year-old daughter.
To the relief of a worried passenger, a Madison Metro Transit bus driver returned $1,000 to the police after finding a bank envelope on his vehicle.
Members of a student government committee said Monday they are hopeful the latest draft of a proposed city ordinance intended to hold landlords more accountable for parties deemed “nuisances” would only be used in extreme circumstances.
Wisconsin exported significantly more goods and services in 2011 than in 2010, including an 18 percent growth in agricultural product exports, according to a report released Monday.
A UW-Madison student was attacked and robbed late Saturday night by three or four male individuals.
Madison plans to implement a new pay-by-phone feature in parking meters near the Capitol later this year.
Members of the UW-Madison Academic Staff Assembly passed a resolution Monday calling for a clearly-defined relationship between the state and UW System.
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