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.
Two men from Evansville, Wis. were victims of battery early Sunday morning as they walked along State Street near Gilman Street, the Madison Police Department reported.
UW-Madison juniors Asad Asad and Nicholas Lillios were awarded $30,000 each from two scholarship programs to put toward graduate studies.
Gov. Jim Doyle and other state officials are touring the state for Wisconsin Covenant Days this week and next week.
Construction begins on the renovations planned for the School of Human Ecology building this Friday at 3:30 p.m.
The National Institutes of Health re-approved federal funding on Tuesday for five prominent stem-cell lines discovered at UW-Madison, according to a WiCell press release. James Thomson's research team uncovered the lines in 1998, including H9 cells, which are the most reliable and accounted for about 40 percent of all stem-cell research orders made before the Bush Administration banned their federal funding, according to the release.
Like most basketball fans, I've been watching plenty of the NBA playoffs the last couple weeks. We've been treated to some good games and some interesting series, but every year, especially around the first round, I begin to voice to same complaints over and over again: there are too many teams, too many games, the postseason goes too long and the way the games are called becomes frustrating. I still enjoy the playoffs, but there is so much wrong with the current system. The structure needs an overhaul, with several major changes needing to be implemented.
City officials met with residents of the Mifflin Street neighborhood Tuesday to address issues that may arise during Saturday's annual block party.
UW-Madison sophomore Matt Honig had struggled with severe depression since high school, each successive episode worsening, until finally during his freshman year of college, he decided to do something about it.
Downtown business owners spoke disapprovingly of the Alcohol License Density Ordinance during a meeting on Tuesday, addressing the 365-day rule and calling for changes to the ordinance.
A 33-year-old Madison woman was arrested Thursday night after stabbing and hitting her boyfriend in the face with scissors and dishware, according to a police report.
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