Dane News

The hollow dead oak spire that rotted to soggy dust in Wingra Park and was finally sawed to a stump three weeks ago by city parks workers held a treasure, one of 833,189 such treasures in the world.

The Dane County Sheriffa TMs Office, in partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and the Dane Fire Department, will be offering festival goers in Dane a free ride home this weekend.

The rapid expansion of waterfront homebuilding and other shoreland development has contributed to pollution and erosion threatening Wisconsin's lakes and rivers.

The coming week, in events that get to your heart through your stomach. Tuesday, June 23 The Goodman Community Center is offering a free food and recreation program for children under age 18.

Pardon the tardiness of this column, dear readers A I am still getting over the shock of being asked to help the Wisconsin Union organize key elements of this fall's Go Big Read common book program.

Jun. 16, 2009 5:32 p.m. Madison a ' The state Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether the felony retrial of former Assembly Speaker Scott R. Jensen should be held in Dane or Waukesha counties.

On Thursday at 7:06 p.m., deputies from the Dane County Sheriff's Office, along with Deforest, Dane and Waunakee fire departments and Waunakee EMS responded to a structure fire at 201 North Street in the Village of Dane.

A state budget proposal requiring all law enforcement agencies to report racial data for traffic stops has officers of smaller departments wondering who's going to pay for it.

Three Madison-area men have been arrested in connection with a heist of a Shopko store in Fond du Lac and possibly other big-box thefts in Dane, Sauk and Iowa counties last year.

With a $1 million renovation completed, the Great Dane Pub & Brewing Co. on Friday will open its fourth location and its first outside the Madison area.

A Dane man was injured Monday morning during a boat collision on Lake Waubesa, the Dane County Sheriff's Office said.

There are now 496 confirmed cases of swine flu in the state of Wisconsin. There are zero probable cases.

When I worked as a receptionist at an animal hospital about 17 years ago, I had an anxious and not very flexible personality.

At approximately 9:13 p.m. the Dane Fire Department and Dane County Deputies responded to a report of a single family residential house fire at 7254 Black Hill Rd.

Laboratory tests on deer shot last fall in western Dane and eastern Iowa counties show chronic wasting disease remains stronger than ever, no matter how much we hope, wish and deny it away.

Supporters of Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker rally at his gubernatorial campaign announcement last week in Dane, Wis.

Three people were injured, one seriously, in a two-vehicle crash Thursday afternoon west of the village of Dane, the Dane County Sheriff's Office said.

When Tony Hoff was injured in a car wreck last year and lost his job, suddenly it wasn't enough that his wife was working four part-time jobs.

Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker announced his decision to run for governor Tuesday.

Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker formally announced his candidacy for the 2010 Wisconsin gubernatorial election on Tuesday.