Madison News

Absentee voting opened in Wisconsin last week, and supporters of Barack Obama are mobilizing to get out the early vote through the final three weeks before Election Day.

Three suspects have been arrested today in series of tavern robberies in Dane County, Madison police said.

Madison police are looking for a shooting suspect Monday on the city's south side.

At 1:55 am, Dane County Sheriff's Office Deputies were dispatched to the Kountry Keg Tavern, 6259 Portage Road, in the Town of Burke, for an armed robbery.

A woman was robbed at gunpoint Tuesday night while heading to her apartment on Madison's south side.

The mother of 21-year old Brittany Zimmermann is finally speaking out, hoping she can find her daughter's killer.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has apologized to a black student who during a class last year was shown a clip of the movie "Blazing Saddles" that features racial epithets.

The Nov. 4 election is 23 days from today. POLL POSITIONING: No new polls from Wisconsin.

Students at UW-Madison are taking notice, following another robbery around the campus.

The public defender for a Madison mother accused of causing the death of her infant daughter says the woman may never be prosecuted because of her mental disability.

After an extensive investigation, two Madison men and a Waterloo man were arrested Wednesday night by the Columbia County Sheriff's Department for allegedly manufacturing marijuana in Deerfield.

Madison, WI: On 10/05/08 at approximately 3:40am Dane County Sheriff's Deputies were dispatched to 7554 USH 12 in the Town of Roxbury for a disturbance involving a man who had been shot.

A white-tailed deer kept at a game farm in Portage County has tested positive for chronic wasting disease.

Dane County continued to add the most new residents statewide in 2007, but its population growth rate is markedly slowing down.

High gas prices, global warming and increasing traffic congestion, though nightmares for motorists, are good times for rail advocates.

CALENDAR : The Nov. 4 election is 26 days from today. NEW PRESIDENTIAL POLL NUMBERS : Things are going from bad to worse for the John McCain-Sarah Palin campaign in Wisconsin.

A woman whose parents and two daughters died from carbon monoxide poisoning while sleeping in a horse trailer before last year's World Clydesdale Show in Madison is suing the maker of a portable heater the ...

A letter sent to parents of some 300 students in the University of Wisconsin-Madison marching band gives more details about hazing accusations that led to the band's suspension last Friday.

Downtown Madison could support a $100 million, 400-room hotel, a consultant told city officials Monday.

Madison police said a 17-year-old and a juvenile were arrested in connection with a Monday afternoon residential burglary.