State Rep. Melissa Sargent, D-Madison, unveiled a bill Tuesday to increase Wisconsin's minimum wage to $15 per hour over the next five years.
A new baby female orangutan was welcomed to parents Kawan and Datu earlier this month at the Henry Vilas Zoo, officials announced Thursday.
In what is reported to be gang-related violence in an ongoing dispute, Jeffrey E. Mitchell shot 18-year-old Lawrence E. Drake on Russett Road after firing shots at a group of rival gang members in the parking lot of West Towne Mall Feb. 28, according to the case file.
University Health Services is currently in its last week of offering free walk-in flu shots for registered UW-Madison students and will officially end the service Friday.
UW-Madison is slated to join various higher education institutes in a think tank aimed at developing digital teaching and learning initiatives.
The 2014 QS World University Rankings survey named the University of Wisconsin-Madison first in the world for media and communications studies, according to a university release.
A federal judge declared Wednesday that a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s gay marriage ban will continue.
A recent article on BBC explored the role cities play in efforts to combat global climate change. Cities are immediately described as “carbon criminals” since they account for “three quarters of global energy consumption and for 80 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.” True that may be, however cities are far from “carbon criminals.” Instead they’re keys to saving us from our own self-destructive tendencies.
Just a day after its setup, a living room tucked into a corridor outside of the Humanities building has attracted the attention of multiple passersby on University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus, including freshmen Olivia Gallenberger and Selia Salzsieder.
The city’s Landmarks Commission adopted the University Avenue Corridor Plan and did not object to the construction of a six-story apartment building on North Webster and East Mifflin Streets in a meeting Monday.
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