The Madison Common Council approved a chronic nuisance ordinance at Tuesday's meeting, effectively making property owners more responsible for troublesome behavior that occurs on their property.
The UW System Board of Regents is forming a committee to analyze and potentially alter the system's current health insurance policies, according to Larry Rubin, associate vice president for the UW System.
The owners of Brothers Bar and Grill, Marc and Eric Fortney, filed a lawsuit against the UW System Board of Regents Tuesday over disagreements regarding the UW System's plans to purchase the land on which the bar is located.
Gov. Jim Doyle said Wednesday he would not oppose the legalization of medicinal marijuana in Wisconsin.
The controversy over the redesign of Mifflin Street was the center of attention at Tuesday's discussion of the Downtown Plan at Memorial Union.
Two men were injured during a fight at the Tiki Shack, 122 State St., early Saturday morning, according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
Residents of Mifflin Street should be on the lookout for a suspicious person lurking in the area.
Over 77,000 Wisconsin residents lost their health insurance coverage in 2009 because of unemployment, according to statistics released Tuesday by Citizen Action of Wisconsin.
New data shows a significant drop in the four-year UW-Madison graduation rates for two campus diversity programs, though their retention rates are higher than the overall campus minority population.
Anticipating the approaching Halloween festivities next weekend, UW students and Madison community members gathered to learn about their rights regarding police confrontation at a workshop Wednesday.
Although UW-Madison health officials are not releasing exact numbers, the H1N1 virus has hit UW-Madison harder than any other UW System school, according to Sarah Van Orman, executive director of University Health Services. With predictions of H1N1 having a particularly strong impact on college students throughout the country, campus officials had to make several hard decisions about how to deal with the virus before classes even started Sept. 2.
The Student Services Finance Committee voted Monday to approve budgets for the UW-Madison student organizations Wisconsin Student Public Interest Research Group, Greater University Tutoring Services, and Badger Catholic.
An amended bill that would ban drivers from text messaging passed the state Senate Tuesday.
Education in Wisconsin could see major reforms if a proposal from Gov. Jim Doyle suggesting longer school days and other initiatives makes it to the state Legislature.
""Turn it on,"" he said to me as he reclined on the couch, hands behind his head.
Plans for the redevelopment of the Edgewater Hotel showed signs of moving forward at Monday night's community listening session.
As the fall Legislative floor session begins Tuesday, two state Supreme Court campaign finance reform bills are positioned to pass, giving qualifying candidates the ability to campaign solely with public dollars.
In the heat of the national health- care debate, UW-Madison student organizations are beginning to rally students on both sides of the issue.
This September a team of UW-Madison staff unveiled a new process to reduce the time it takes to eliminate former employees from accessing information technology systems, but the new process still takes longer than many others used throughout the University of Wisconsin System.
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