More than 80 state agencies, including UW-Madison, are not in compliance with an open records law that requires all state agencies to report their contractual agreements on an aggregate website maintained by the Government Accountability Board.
The Madison Police Department arrested several individuals for possession of heroin Thursday evening, according to MPD South Police District Cpt. Joe Balles.
An officer from the Madison Police Department arrested a 27-year-old man after suspecting him of being involved with a series of thefts from vehicles in the Greenbush and Vilas neighborhoods.
A strong-armed robbery on the 100 block of Langdon Street occurred Friday at approximately 2:40 a.m. and resulted in a woman's purse being stolen.
The Madison Initiative for Undergraduates Shared Governance Oversight Committee and the Student Oversight Committee submitted 31 recommended proposals to Chancellor Biddy Martin in mid-February. That leaves 83 of the original 114 proposals on the outside looking in as Martin is slated to make her final decision on which proposals to fund by the end of March.
Tommy Thompson leads incumbent U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., in a hypothetical matchup, according to a poll released Friday from the conservative-leaning Wisconsin Policy Research Institute.
Documents from the UW System revealed that the highest paid UW-Madison official makes over three times as much as the governor.
The Wisconsin Students Public Interest Research Group held an event on East Campus Mall Thursday, advocating student support for a federal bill that may increase financial aid opportunities for students.
A 65-year-old Madison man propositioned a young woman on the 10 block of W. Gorham Street Friday evening, prompting her to call 911.
University Health Services announced its new director of prevention services and campus health Thursday, who will address issues like excessive alcohol use and sexual assault on campus.
The Assembly Committee on Transportation held a public hearing Thursday to discuss Wisconsin transportation planning and possible rail and bus services.
Gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker stressed his commitment to lowering government spending in his first television campaign advertisement released Thursday.
The city of Madison held a public meeting Thursday to discuss implications and ideas about its application to bring ""ultra high speed broadband"" called Google Fiber to Madison.
Brits love soccer, at times to an unhealthy degree. They love it so much that they have been known to kill, maim and disembowel each other in the name of football—and that is just the fans. The coaches and players, if anything, are even more vile, vicious and vitriolic, as shown in ""The Damned United,"" a biopic of former English Premier League coach Brian Clough (Michael Sheen) and the lead-up to his disastrous 44-day stint as head coach of league juggernaut Leeds United.
As experts are increasingly in agreement that the national economy has hit bottom and is slowly mending, statistics also reveal this may be true of Madison and Dane County.
Wisconsin's unemployment rate has stabilized since December 2009 at 8.7 percent, according to new federal statistics released Wednesday.
A 24-year old Madison man was taken to a local hospital Saturday morning after being assaulted and robbed on the 300 block of West Gorham Street. According to the police report, the victim was walking down West Gorham Street when he was approached by three men. The robbery took place early Saturday morning around 5:30 a.m.
The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development said Wednesday that it is currently paying out more in unemployment benefits than it is taking in, forcing the state to borrow funds from the federal government.
Chancellor Biddy Martin announced Wednesday that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will be the 2010 Saturday morning commencement speaker.
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