A break in a chilled water line from the Charter Street Heating Plant, 130 N. Mills St., on June 17 released some 40,000 gallons of lake water onto Charter and Spring streets.
June 29, 2026
Top Stories
Higher Education/System
Eligible UW system employees to get 2% raises
Employees at Wisconsin’s public universities will get a 2% increase in their wages starting this month, and thousands of faculty members in high-demand fields have received salary raises.
Campus life
UW-Madison to close dozens of buildings amid broken chilled water line
UW–Madison will temporarily close more than 20 buildings starting Tuesday because of a broken chilled water line that has cut the campus’s air conditioning capacity during one of the hottest weeks of the year.
UW-Madison has 26 sites on the National Register of Historic Places
UW-Madison is home to dozens of historic and archaeological sites that have national recognition.
UW-Madison’s food-delivery robots pulled off campus
The fleet of small white robots that have ambled slowly around UW-Madison’s campus since 2019 to deliver dining hall food to students has been permanently powered down.
Crime and safety
Man charged in attempted sexual assault at UW Hospital
A 43-year-old man has been charged after UW-Madison police said he attempted to sexually assault a hospital employee at University Hospital earlier this month.
Agriculture
Horticulturist Lisa Johnson knows what your plants need to thrive
As the horticulture outreach specialist with UW-Madison Extension Dane County, Johnson, 62, should have all the gardening answers you seek, and if not, she can surely find the right expert who does.
Athletics
Longtime Wisconsin rowing coach retires after 32 years at school
Chris Clark is retiring after 32 years with the University of Wisconsin rowing programs.
UW Experts in the News
These are the biggest and most common spiders in Wisconsin
PJ Liesch, director of insect diagnostic lab at the University of Wisconsin, said spiders often get a bad rap, but they really aren’t going to bite humans. Humans aren’t food to them, so they’d really only ever do it in self defense.
Obituaries
William Louis Unger
William worked as a Project Manager for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Geoscience for nearly 50 years, retiring officially in 2006, but finding many reasons to return to Weeks Hall in the years that followed.
Janice Czyscon
Professionally, Janice dedicated her career to UW–Madison. She earned a B.S. in Journalism and Political Science in 1983 and an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction in 1992. She spent more than 25 years as a Senior Editor in the Engineering Professional Development Department of UW–Extension, retired in 2009.