Edward Van Gemert, vice provost for libraries and a university librarian, will retire in May 2018, the university announced Tuesday.
A man who admitted to shooting his wife and intentionally blowing up their Madison home last week in an attempt to cover up the homicide was booked on $1 million bail Tuesday at a hearing. Following further investigations into the murder and explosion by state officials, law enforcement and firefighters, Steven D.
A new grant announced Tuesday by county officials could assist undocumented community members by providing legal representation to those facing deportation hearings.
Both groups told SSFC that their services were essential and unique to students. Sex Out Loud’s presentation cited sex-positive counseling and pleasure education while GUTS' cited more than 500 volunteers, conversational English tutors and presence in dorms, dining halls and libraries.
The Free Speech Act and permitless carry bill are two key pieces of legislation that students should watch out for, state Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, told the Associated Students of Madison’s Legislative Affairs Committee, Monday.
After at least eight years of perceived inequity for hip-hop artists in the Madison music scene, city officials are looking to address the problem formally.
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Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Monday UW-Madison’s involvement in an inter-Big Ten Conference competition aimed at increasing voter registration and turnout among students on college campuses.
The woman was standing with friends on University Avenue when a man made conversation and, after a short interaction, attacked her.
The popular right-wing radio host, now famous throughout the country, surprised some of his listeners when he refused to support Trump even after he earned the Republican nomination for president in 2016.
Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill Monday giving Wisconsin’s largest state subsidy ever to a Taiwanese electronics company that promises to bring up to 13,000 jobs to the state. The subsidy bill obligates the state to pay $2.85 billion in cash to Foxconn, assuming the company continues to create jobs.
UW-Madison students now have the opportunity to join a student organization that aims to support and bring awareness to the education, health and safety of young women all over the world.
Reviewers praised J.D.Vance, a young, conservative Marine Corps veteran, for telling a gripping tale of overcoming adversity. But some experts view Vance’s attempts to apply policy solutions to the dire situation in Appalachia as misguided or even dangerous.
In 2018 Democrats hope to win their biggest electoral achievement since former President Barack Obama’s reelection: a congressional majority. Randy Bryce hopes to lead that charge, launching a difficult and insurgent campaign against House Speaker Paul Ryan of Janesville. Bryce is pitching himself as the Wisconsin solution to the Washington problem: a progressive union worker, cancer-survivor, Army veteran, and labor organizer who wants to take on powerful special interests. In an age of widespread distrust in government, it’s his authenticity that he hopes to win on. “I’m not trying to be anything I’m not,” Bryce told The Daily Cardinal.
This year’s UW-Madison freshmen will be the last ones eligible to sit on the Associated Students of Madison as First Year representatives after a recent decision from Student Judiciary.
Churches are exempt from paying property taxes. But what if the church is gone and only the property remains?
A memorial outside the state Capitol honoring fallen law enforcement officers was vandalized Saturday with a reference to protests taking place in St. Louis.
A provision quietly tucked into a new Wisconsin transportation funding bill could make it harder to build bike trails and sidewalks throughout the state, including in Madison. The proposed rule bars state and local governments from taking property from private owners for certain projects — a process called condemnation — including cyclist and pedestrian paths, street walkways and other pedestrian spaces.
The Republican-controlled state Senate clinched just enough votes Friday to pass Wisconsin’s two-year budget and send it to Gov.
Former UW-Madison student Alec Shiva — who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting another student on campus while high on LSD in 2016 — was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison and three years of probation. Shiva, 19, of Verona, Wis., was charged last year with three felonies including second-degree sexual assault, strangulation and suffocation and false imprisonment.
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