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.
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.
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