Black Earth News

The victim of a two-vehicle crash in the Dane County town of Mazomanie was identified Tuesday as a Black Earth woman.

The woman killed in a two-car crash Monday afternoon in the town of Mazomanie has been identified as Diana S. Griffin, 51 of Black Earth, the Dane County Sheriff's Office said.

US 14 - between Cross Plains and Mazomanie - in western Dane County will be detoured to through-traffic beginning June 22.

Today marks 25 years since a devastating tornado leveled Barneveld...destroying homes and business and killing nine people.

The Art Cart will once again roll through Madison this summer, making more than 90 stops to give local kids a chance to see if they can become the next Pablo Picasso or Jackson Pollock.

It was the early morning hours of June 8, 25 years ago, when the small Iowa County community of Barneveld was shocked out of its slumber with an F-5 tornado that leveled most of the town, killing nine people and injuring scores more.

Orange barrels are popping up all across Southern Wisconsin as construction season is upon us.

The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs is conducting Memorial Day services this weekend with the theme "Duty, Honor, Country - This They Believed." State observances will take place today at 9:30 a.m. at the Wisconsin Veterans Home at King, and at 10 a.m. at the Central Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery.

The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs is conducting Memorial Day services this weekend with the theme "Duty, Honor, Country - This They Believed." The department has scheduled commemorative events Sunday at 11 a.m. at the Southern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery at Union Grove, and 1:30 p.m. at the Northern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial ...

Now that winter's over, Wisconsin's other season, road construction, is ramping up, with motorists getting ready to endure repeated sightings of Wisconsin's unofficial state symbol for summer, the orange highway construction barrel.

Wisconsin Department of Transportation officials met with some area business owners Tuesday in an effort to ease concerns about a big construction project.

Already battered by a slowing economy, business owners in Black Earth and Cross Plains worry a planned reconstruction of Highway 14 this summer could drive local commerce in the ditch.

Work scheduled for US 14 this spring and summer will be previewed at a public information meeting Tuesday, Apr.

A 45-year-old man was seriously injured in a head-on crash Monday afternoon southwest of Black Earth, the Dane County Sheriff's Office said.

Drivers using Highway 14 in western Dane County will see orange construction barrels popping up during the next few weeks as a major resurfacing project begins April 15.

The resurfacing of US 14 in western Dane County is scheduled to begin Apr. 15. The project will extend eight miles from the west village limits of Cross Plains through Black Earth to the east village limits of Mazomanie.

A New Glarus man was arrested on tentative charges of drunk driving for the sixth time, after Dane County Sheriff's Office deputies said they found him running from his car into a field in the town of Black Earth.

Madison, WI. March 28, 2009 At approximately 8:30 p.m., Dane County Sheriffa TMs Deputies responded to the area of USH 14 and Miller Farm Road, in the Town of Black Earth, for a vehicle off the roadway and in a nearby field.

The 12-year-old boy who wandered away from Mazomanie Elementary School has been found.

A Verona woman was charged today with felony counts of theft and fraud for stealing $3,400 from the Middleton Times Tribune -- her employer -- by allegedly putting company money into her own credit card ...