Blue Mounds News

Participants in the Horribly Hilly Hundreds bike ride will be traveling through western Dane County on Saturday morning.

Heavy thunderstorms dropped more than two inches of rain on Dane County late Thursday night, but that was only the first wave of storms coming through southern Wisconsin, with more storms hitting around sunrise and other storms expected to blow up later in the day into Friday night.

The danger of traveling with an education writer is that every experience becomes a time for learning.

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Secretary Matt Frank today announced the 2009 Citizen-Based Monitoring Partnership Program awards, providing $100,000 to help fund 22 high-priority natural resource monitoring projects conducted by citizen groups across the state.

Described as one of the best openings ever, the first day of the outdoor Dane County Farmers'' Market on Saturday drew as many as 12,000 people, an unexpected surge that had many of the 100 vendors packing up early, their tables empty of produce, plants, baked goods and other homemade and locally grown products.

As the Argyle Land Ethic Academy ends, the Argyle School District is trying to bring environmental studies and ethics into all its classrooms and is adding a special class on the subject at its high school.

Motorists cross a bridge spanning the east branch of the Rock River on Thursday in the Town of Addison in northwestern Washington County.

My hat's off to the good people of Mount Horeb for having what has to rate as one of the best local history museums in Wisconsin, if not the country.

Anyone who's ever been to camp, join in: "Flea!" "Flea fly!" "Flea, fly, flow!" It's the song that makes no sense, yet year after year, summer upon summer, happy campers sit 'round the fire and repeat the ...

The hot-button issue of a proposed commuter rail system was the subject of a public meeting in Middleton on Monday night.

At 5:18 am, a Dane County Sheriff's Deputy was assisting a tow truck operator, who was pulling a car from the median on USH 18/151, when the squad was struck from behind by an eastbound semi-tractor and ...

Despite city and school spending increases, many Madison taxpayers aren't having a sticker shock compared to other municipalities when opening tax bills.

A 49-year-old man from East Troy was killed this morning when the pickup truck he was driving crashed on a highway in Dane County, according to the county sheriff's office.