Monona News

Rising prices at the gas pump appear to be having at least one positive effect: Traffic deaths in Wisconsin and around the country are plummeting, just as they did during the Arab oil embargo three decades ago.

On a recent sunny afternoon, concoctions of chocolate chips, butterscotch chips and marshmallows were melting in foil-lined boxes at the top of the steps leading to Chamberlain Hall.

Rising prices at the gas pump appear to be having at least one positive effect: Traffic deaths in Wisconsin and around the country are plummeting, just as they did during the Arab oil embargo three decades ago.

H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama arrives for weeklong visit, UW grad student offers himself up to mosquitoes, Monona's competitiveness as a suburb, the MPG Challenge winners at Hybridfest 2008, Fleet Foxes play the ...

Looking like a pack of modern-day urban voyageurs, hundreds of paddlers put their canoes in the water at James Madison Park on Lake Mendota, sprinted across the isthmus with their boats over their heads and ...

The patterns can be created with a 3-D virtual supermodel straight out of a video game.

Dane County is developing new shoreland zoning standards designed to improve water quality equitably for all cities, villages and towns.

WI: Storm sewers run slow with lakes high The Wisconsin State Journal Jul. 12--High lake levels are making it harder for Madison's storm sewers to keep streets clear, although city engineers say major street ...

Blue-green algae closed two city of Madison beaches Thursday. James Madison Park beach, 621 E. Gorham St.

Cooler, calmer weather is right around the corner Wednesday after a cold front comes through later Tuesday, clearing out the heat and humidity for at least a couple of days.

Now that summer is here, your family may be looking for a great day trip. May I suggest a visit to Madison this summer to take in the many sights and sounds of our capital city? At a height of more than 200 ...

State Sen. Fred Risser, the progressive Democrat from Madison who is the longest-serving state legislator in the United States, will not face a Democratic primary contest in September or a November race with a ...

More than five months after Joel Marino was stabbed to death in his Monona Bay home, neither police nor prosecutors have said what accused killer Adam Peterson's motive was in the crime.

' Despite a slow-no-wake ordinance in effect on the Madison lakes, state and county officers made ten operating while intoxicated arrests over the three-day July 4th weekend.

Residents of the Fitchburg Springs apartment complex spent Sunday going through what was left of their apartments, trying to salvage anything they could after a fire.

A fire that started about 8:20 p.m. in the basement of a two-story, 16-unit apartment building at Mistwood Apartments in the town of Madison forced the evacuation of the building Sunday.

An early-morning fire at Monona State Bank under construction was contained to one room but caused smoke damage on two floors.

Residents stood in disbelief in the parking lot of their charred apartment building today, the bright blue water of an adjacent swimming pool a jarring contrast.

A Friday night apartment fire in Fitchburg has displaced around 40 people and caused $3 million in damages to the building.

The Recording Industry Association of America files a lawsuit for the names of 48 people it believes illegally downloaded music using UW System computers in 2007 and 2008.