Dane County News

Gentle Breeze Honey is a full beekeeping operation and honey processing farm in the rolling countryside near Mount Horeb.

Leave aside estimates that only 5,500 passengers will ride the Dane County commuter train.

MADISON, Wis. Former Vikings first-round pick Erasmus James was arrested early Thursday after punching a friend in the face at a bar in Madison.

The last Outdoor Farmersa TM Market on the Square is this Saturday, November 7, rain or shine, from 6 am to 2 pm.

Madison, WI. November 2, 2009 a ' Dane County Sheriffa TMs Deputies took a total of thirteen drunk drivers off the roads over the Halloween weekend.

A Rock County sheriff's deputy has been arrested and placed on administrative leave after the sexual assault of an 18-year-old woman in Milton.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin of Madison may have a Democratic challenger next year.

Dane County authorities say an inmate attempted suicide at the Dane County Jail, around 7 p.m. Saturday.

Dane County leaders are re-visiting the idea of possibly creating a regional transit authority.

The race for the governor's seat got more interesting this week when Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton dropped out.

A proposed Dane County Regional Transit Authority received recommendations from two Dane County Board committees at a joint meeting Monday evening, bringing the long-sought-after planning body one step closer to reality.

Authorities are investigating a pair of robberies at restaurants in Madison and the Town of Burke.

A recent article in Newsweek reported on the unexpected, but welcome, mystery that has developed in one Wisconsin County where the black infant mortality rate has dropped to a level equal to that of white infants.

The Associated Press has filed a lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections seeking the release of a video that shows a powerful stinger grenade exploding after a prison guard dropped it inside a prisoner's cell.

A Fond du Lac County assistant district attorney will put down his law degree and pull up his bootstraps.

Dane County has reached a tentative agreement with five of its nine bargaining unions.

Dane County and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Local, representing more than 1500 county employees, have reached a tentative agreement on a contract for 2010.

State corrections officials have named a new warden for a northwestern Wisconsin prison.

Saturday November 14, 2009 launches the inaugural New Balance Girls on the Run 5K, presented by Associated Bank .

Dane County District Attorney Brian Blanchard is looking for a new job. Blanchard put his name in for a state appellate court judge position on Tuesday.