Committees in both houses of the state legislature are scheduled to vote Feb. 6 on the state’s controversial mining bill, which would alter some rules and regulations on iron mining in the state.
The Orpheum Theatre’s new management reports the venue is “doing great” since reopening this January, adding it aims to generate more success by tailoring entertainment toward students and by continuing to build off positive community feedback.
The state Senate approved legislation Tuesday requiring the Legislative Reference Bureau to to officially recommend signed laws for release a day after being passed instead of as long as 10 days later, a move that all but eliminates the secretary of state’s role in the legislative process.
Renowned fiction writer and sought-after creative writing instructor Lorrie Moore will leave the University of Wisconsin-Madison and accept an endowed chair at Vanderbilt University beginning fall 2013.
University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni donated $10.2 million during the university’s 2012 first annual “Share the Wonderful” giving campaign, exceeding the campaign’s target goal by $200,000.
The Associated Students of Madison Sustainability Committee held a small informal meeting Tuesday to discuss spring campaign options and outreach.
Humans often have access to blood donors in cases of emergency, and now animals have the same luxury because of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Veterinary Teaching Animal Blood Bank.
An upcoming roundtable dinner will give students and staff an opportunity to provide feedback on the mandatory ethnic studies requirement as part of a student government campaign to reform the current structure.
The Student Services Finance Committee approved budgets for the Associated Students of Madison Student Judiciary and WSUM Monday.
A fight at a downtown Madison nightclub led a patron to fire one gunshot outside the venue early Monday morning.
State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, and other legislators received subpoenas to appear in an ongoing investigation into discriminatory redistricting of certain Wisconsin districts.
The controversial Pabst Blue Ribbon advertisements will no longer be seen on Madison Metro buses due to the company’s decision not to renew its recently expired contract.
Representatives of the Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Committee and United Council of UW Students, a statewide student lobbying organization, met Monday to discuss strategies to lobby for a student-friendly state biennial budget.
Madison Police arrested a Beloit man on a frozen part of Lake Mendota Saturday afternoon after he fled from police for using a stolen prescription pad at a State Street drug store.
Democrats in northern Wisconsin counties sent letters to state legislators Monday requesting public hearings in the areas most affected by the proposed mining legislation currently backed by Republicans.
Supporters of the Republican-backed proposal to ease mining regulations in Wisconsin spent 610 times more on political campaigns than the bill’s opponents between January 2010 and June 2012, according to new figures released Monday.
Newly hired University of Wisconsin-Madison football head coach Gary Andersen introduced himself to members of the Athletic Board Friday, discussing his coaching philosophy and first impressions of Madison.
Sher Minn Chong will graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison this Spring with no student debt and a clear post-graduation plan. But unlike many students, Chong, a government scholar from Malaysia, signed on to this plan before she even arrived in Madison.
More than a hundred protesters gathered on the Capitol steps Saturday to voice their opposition to a proposed mine in northwest Wisconsin’s Penokee Hills, as well as a recently introduced bill they said would loosen Wisconsin’s environmental standards regarding the creation and maintenance of mines.
U.S. News & World Report ranked the University of Wisconsin-Madison 38th overall on a list of the top 400 universities in the world.
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