The Board of Estimates unanimously approved an ordinance Monday requiring private contractors with the city of Madison to give the same benefits, such as health insurance, to those in domestic partnerships as married couples.
In the first semester since the program began, nearly 90 percent of UW-Madison students required to take a course on alcohol consumption safety found it beneficial, according to university health experts, though one participant disagreed.
The chair of UW-Madison's primary licensing advisory committee said Monday she is unhappy with the way Chancellor David Ward decided to enter a period of mediation with Adidas, rather than give the company 90 days' notice to pay severance to its workers as the committee recommended.
Tuesday's primary elections will be the first time voters will be asked to provide an acceptable photo ID before receiving a ballot, in accordance to the new Voter ID law passed last year.
The Student Services Finance Committee heard University Health Services' budget request for over $13 million Monday.
After a letter was sent from the mayor's office to local bar owners about controversial ID policies, city officials and police instructed bar owners and employees on bar admittance rules and management at an annual tavern safety meeting Monday.
So you're a diehard fan of the only publicly owned team in the NFL and want to support them from your home in Saskatoon, eh? Well it's time to start saving up loonies and toonies, you hoser, because Canadians can now buy stock in the Green Bay Packers.
The state's largest public workers' union endorsed former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk Monday in her bid to defeat Gov. Scott Walker in his likely recall election.
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.
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