Wisconsin’s Menominee tribe has stirred controversy and sparked debate after applying to open an off-reservation casino in the Kenosha area, drawing Gov. Scott Walker, state legislators and other Wisconsin tribes into the mix.
System officials will hold a video conference Thursday where participants can discuss the University of Wisconsin System and the search for a new president.
Democratic state legislators shared a room in the Memorial Union Tuesday with students and college affordability advocates in an effort to hear grassroots ideas to make college more affordable for university students.
The victims of a robbery at gunpoint in a Vilas Avenue apartment Sunday night were confirmed to be University of Wisconsin-Madison students, according to a university release.
Greater University Tutoring Service applied for funding eligibility for the 2015-’16 fiscal year from the Student Services Finance Committee Thursday, stating the organization offers a direct service to students.
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak teamed up with Madison Mayor Paul Soglin Monday, encouraging same-sex couples denied the right to marry in Wisconsin to venture across state lines to Minnnesota to legally tie the knot.
Ground could break on a new inner-city bus depot on the corner of North Bedford Street and West Mifflin Street as early as next year, Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said at a Bassett neighborhood meeting Monday.
Coordinators for the Memorial Union Reinvestment project formally released plans for the second phase of the Union construction Monday and held an open forum to receive input from the public about the potential designs.
Between 80 and 100 people gathered Monday night on the street outside Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s, D-Wis., 30 W. Mifflin office as part of a series of simultaneous nationwide MoveOn.org vigils in protest of the U.S.’s potential military intervention in Syria.
Madison police are investigating a residential robbery that took place late Sunday night in which three college-aged males were robbed at gunpoint in their Vilas Avenue apartment, according to a police report.
Two males on bicycles approached a 39-year-old man on the 100 block of South Bassett Street early Monday morning and stole a sum of cash the man pulled out of his pocket, according to a city incident report.
Police arrested a 23-year-old Madison man in connection to a residential robbery on the 200 block of West Lakelawn Place that occurred in early August, according to a police report.
After President Barack Obama surprised analysts by deferring his decision to intervene in Syria to a vote from Congress, federal representatives and senators nationwide have blurred party lines and undertaken individual efforts to collect information from intelligence reports, experts and their constituents to decide whether they will vote to authorize a military intervention in the civil war-wracked country.
The Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office identified a body found in Warner Park lagoon on the northeast side Friday as 55-year-old Madison man Calvin Ewing, according to a press release.
At a University of Wisconsin Board of Regents meeting Friday, several regents expressed concern over a policy that would set thresholds for the amount of money the system should hold in cash reserves.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Shanan Peters says the only way we can have any hope of determining what the future holds is by questioning past changes that have taken place on Earth.
Party on the PATH, a new event to showcase activities for students interested in UW’s Green Scene, student organizations who focus predominantly on environmental and sustainability-related topics, will be held Tuesday on the Lakeshore Trail near Lake Mendota.
A state Senate committee passed a bill Thursday that would restrict public access to parts of a proposed iron mining site in northern Wisconsin, while allowing landowners to retain most of their property tax break.
Gov. Scott Walker rescinded a $500,000 grant Thursday, which the Department of Natural Resources granted a Wisconsin sportsmen organization, in light of intentional errors made in the application process.
University of Wisconsin-Madison student arrests and citations at the Badger football game Saturday nearly doubled from the Aug. 31 game, according to a UW-Madison Police Department report.
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