A new nuclear fusion research site could be coming to the Madison area.
Kieran Furlong, co-founder and CEO or Madison-based Realta Fusion, said Wisconsin is among the “final two states” for a new research and development facility, which would entail “hundreds of millions” of dollars in capital investment and 200 or more jobs.
Larry Meiller once commented on the appeal of his Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) call-in show by describing his connection with listeners: “I think they look at me as an old friend.”
That was in 1987.
Wisconsin Union launched the sale of unsold food on the app Goodie Bag April 6 to reduce food waste at Union locations and increase food affordability.
Food including sandwiches and baked goods from the Badger Markets in Union South and Memorial Union are now offered at a 67% discount through Goodie Bag.
University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers Anjon Audhya, Katherine Cramer, Shannon Stahl and Stephen Wright have been named Vilas Research Professors.
Extraordinary members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty have been honored during the last year with awards supported by the estate of professor, U.S. Senator and UW Regent William F. Vilas (1840–1908).
Marcus Sedberry could be Wisconsin’s interim athletic director for a while – or not so long.
UW has yet to announce a search firm, search committee or other important details in the three-plus weeks since Chris McIntosh’s abrupt departure to take a position at the Big Ten office.
The process of finding a new athletic director at the University of Wisconsin already is different than the last one.
There was one day between the announcement of Barry Alvarez’s pending retirement in 2021 and the naming of a nine-person search committee to help find his replacement, complete with a website that featured an eight-page prospectus document.
When a constituent in Verona Ald. Beth Tucker Long’s district voiced concerns about the security cameras peppered across the city in early October, Tucker Long was shocked. Neither she nor many of her fellow alders had been included in discussions about installing cameras manufactured by a company called Flock Safety, but they had shown up just the same.
Wisconsin lost thousands of manufacturing jobs in 2025, driven in part by an aging workforce and hesitancy to expand hiring in an uncertain economy.
Between January 2025 and January 2026, the state’s manufacturing workforce shrank by about 9,500 jobs, falling from 461,100 workers to 451,600, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics compiled by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The manufacturing workforce nationally declined by about 91,000 jobs over the same period.
Backyard poultry have been linked to a multistate outbreak of salmonella, which includes at least five cases in Wisconsin.
Thirty-four cases of salmonella across 13 states have been linked to the outbreak, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A recent decision from a federal appeals court could impact Wisconsin residents looking to get the abortion pill mifepristone from providers in other states.
A Friday decision from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals restricted the mailing of the abortion pill mifepristone. On Monday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito temporarily halted that ruling for one week.
The sale of unpasteurized milk remains illegal in the dairy state, but more than three dozen bills supporting raw milk have been introduced in states around the nation, according to the Associated Press.
That includes neighboring states to Wisconsin, such as Iowa, Illinois and Michigan, which have introduced laws this year.
University of Wisconsin-Madison professors in food and dairy sciences say that while farmers in Wisconsin take great care of their animals, raw milk can never be guaranteed completely safe.
In its 100 years, Breese Stevens Field, the city-owned field smack in the middle of Madison’s isthmus, has lived a hundred different lives.
“Every time somebody tries to tell Breese what it’s going to do, it doesn’t,” said Tristan Straub, Breese’s general manager.
