Wisconsin spends more than twice the amount Minnesota does on its corrections system and imprisons nearly 14,000 more, according to a new report from the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance.
Many students woke up earlier than usual Saturday morning and started tossing back some brews in honor of the annual Mifflin Street Block Party. The perfect weather, packed street and two stages of music made for a memorable block party yet again.
The Wisconsin women's tennis team earned a 4-0 first-round knockout over No. 9 seed Minnesota Thursday as the Big Ten Tournament got underway in Iowa.
The exodus of talent from the Badgers' national runner-up team just keeps on going.
The Mifflin Street Block Party is upon us. Tomorrow morning, many students will wake up earlier than they have since football season for one last chance to cut loose before finals.
Two lieutenant governor candidates from Milwaukee were pressured to drop out of their races by city Mayor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett.
After celebrating two wins over the North Dakota, the Wisconsin softball team fell to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish Thursday.
Gov. Jim Doyle signed into law an education reform bill Thursday aimed at helping so-called ""failing schools"", focusing specifically on the troubled Milwaukee Public Schools system.
A 19-year-old Latino man was fatally shot on the north side of Madison, on the 2100 block of Fordem Avenue Wednesday night.
Holocaust denial, spelling errors, autoerotic asphyxiation.
The Wisconsin men's tennis team will look for its first ever Big Ten title this weekend, entering Friday as the No. 4 seed in this weekend's conference tournament in Bloomington, Ind.
UW-Madison students called for an end to sexual assault Thursday during a march on Library Mall and a march to the Capitol.
The Government Accountability Board is investigating a complaint filed Monday by GOP delegate Kathy Kiernan regarding a phone call on behalf of the Mark Neumann gubernatorial campaign that allegedly violated campaign law.
City and campus officials discussed their visions for reducing alcohol consumption among students at a panel about the UW-Madison drinking culture Wednesday.
Each year on the first Saturday in May, overworked students put down their books and grab a beer at the Mifflin Street Block Party. The annual celebration is one of Madison's most anticipated events, but few students know the full, politically charged history of the event.
This year's Democratic Party of Wisconsin Convention will host Democratic National Committee Chair Tim Kaine as the keynote speaker.
The Madison Vending Oversight Committee met Wednesday to adjust vendor rights for upcoming Madison events, discuss late-night vending area changes and approve the southeast campus area's vending map.
The U.S. Census Bureau announced Wednesday that Wisconsin had the highest participation rate in the nation during the 2010 census with 81 percent responding to the mail-in survey.
Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner spoke at UW-Milwaukee Tuesday to promote a new financial reform bill that they said would benefit the middle class.
The Wisconsin softball team will return home to play a back-to-back nonconference doubleheader against the North Dakota Fighting Sioux Wednesday.
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