A Dane County judge signed an order Thursday closing Madison’s leading Spanish-language newspaper for failing to have workers’ compensation insurance.

It’s hard for me to believe it has been 12 years since a UW-Madison student from Minnesota named Katie O’Phelan called me at the newspaper and demanded to know why there wasn’t a St. Patrick’s Day parade in Madison.

The New York Times is reporting today on a draft proposal for standardizing a portion of the academic experience for public school students throughout the country. 

It's only fitting for America's Dairyland: Madison is hoping to create an ice cream flavor to woo Google Fiber.

SUN PRAIRIE — The massive field house inside Sun Prairie’s new high school, which is scheduled to open in the fall, is a facility that can serve a great number of purposes.

A group of teenagers with real-looking air guns avoided injury and tickets on Sunday after police responded, with guns drawn, to the wooded area the teens were in on the city's northeast side.

An 80-year-old Madison woman didn't believe a "you are a winner" scam phone call and told police about it last week.

A civil trial attorney from Eau Claire will be the newest member of the UW Board of Regents.

Rock County detectives busted a burglary ring this week, arresting four young men after finding more than $40,000 in stolen property at two Janesville residences.

A 60-year-old woman was startled early Wednesday morning when a man allegedly kicked in her apartment door, but after yelling at him to leave, he apparently did without doing any more damage.

The financial chaos in the news business, particularly newspapers, has created endless discussions, which I'm sure you've seen already, about how to safeguard that piece of the media's role that keeps citizens informed and government honest. What you might not know is that John Nichols of The Capital Times is at the forefront of a push that is getting major attention nationwide: calling on the government to subsidize journalism to a far greater extent than it does now.

A 24-year-old Madison woman was shaken well enough to call police after a man allegedly wanted her to watch him perform a sex act on himself.

A Madison man is accused of swinging a butcher knife at his neighbor when he arrived home Wednesday night.

A 66-year-old woman was mugged Wednesday afternoon while she got off a Metro bus on the east side.

A 26-year-old DeForest man drove into Wingra Creek on Wednesday after arguing with his passenger and then trying to run him over, Madison police said.

Three women accused of shoplifting from an east side discount retailer allegedly took so many items that they seemed to be "drowning" in merchandise inside their car, Madison police reported.

A Madison man serving time for a weapons violation faces up to five more years in prison after escaping from a residential facility in February.

A Chicago man who led Madison police on a foot chase last August was sentenced to four years, three months in federal prison on Wednesday for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

More than 16 months after launching an investigation into allegations of improper conduct by Madison Ald. Mike Verveer in his former job as a Dane County prosecutor, the state Department of Justice has yet to complete its inquiry.