Author: Kelly Tyrrell

Madison city officials, University of Wisconsin students and Mifflin neighborhood residents considered multiple presentations concerning safety issues for the upcoming block party at a meeting Tuesday night.

If the Mifflin Street Block Party does not work this year, city officials said they will shut it down.

University of Wisconsin-Madison students are reflecting on recent shootings that have taken the lives of two young black men.

UW-Madison administration is simplifying protocol for students to report incidents involving prejudice conduct, speech or expression.

Associated Students of Madison Chair Allie Gardner and other student government leaders were arrested protesting in Washington, D.C. Monday.

Madison Police Chief Noble Wray informally announced his opposition to the Mifflin Street Block Party and his desire to eventually shut the party down permanently on Monday.

Washington, D.C. police arrested three University of Wisconsin students who serve or have been elected to serve in student government positions during a protest against rising student debt outside a prominent student loan lender.

Members of the University of Wisconsin?s student government met Monday to review drinking problems on campus and at the Mifflin Street Block Party, following sponsorship difficulties for the event.

With it?s future uncertain, Madison?s Police Chief says he wants to put an end to the Mifflin Street Block Party.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling honored two UW students for their life-saving actions Monday night.

Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is slated to deliver an April 10 lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Robbers targeted pedestrians early Sunday morning in a series of three strong-armed robberies in a student neighborhood.

A series of robberies near the University of Wisconsin campus early Sunday morning led Madison officials to believe the same group of individuals had committed the three crimes.

Members of the campus community gathered in the McBurney Disability Center Saturday to learn about implementing social change for the community affected with disabilities in Madison in the second Pathways to Inclusion conference.

Madison police are investigating three overnight strong-arm robberies downtown that they believe are linked.

A University of Wisconsin-Madison official said a trespassing dispute preceded campus fraternity members allegedly using racial slurs against two African-American students.

Madison?s annual spring Mifflin Street Block Party encountered a setback this week.

For the first time, the UW-Madison School of Business was ranked within the top 25 business schools in the country by Bloomberg Businessweek, a magazine that has been ranking top undergraduate business schools each year since 2006.

UW-Madison officials are investigating a report that students at a Delta Upsilon Fraternity party racially harassed two African-American students last week.

After a potential sponsor for the Mifflin Street Block Party recently backed out of negotiations, the city is returning to the idea of planning the event on its own.

University of Wisconsin officials are investigating a campus fraternity after releasing a report of a racial incident involving two black female students last Friday morning.

U-W announced theyd suspended Delta Upsilon,the frats president and other members declined to comment.

University of Wisconsin-Madison officials said they are investigating a report of a racial incident involving two African-American female students and members of a campus fraternity.

Few students complain about the warmer than average mid-March temperatures outside, but the temperatures inside UW-Madison buildings are a different story.

The only potential sponsor for the Mifflin Street Block Party retracted its application to sponsor the event Tuesday, leaving Madison to plan the event on its own.

Northwestern has Dillo Day. Illinois has Unofficial Saint Patrick?s Day. Indiana has the Little 500. In an especially obnoxious display of aristocracy, Virginia students drive to a horse track wearing seersucker and fancy hats to spend a day drinking at the Foxfield Races.

Street lights went out Saturday night and early Sunday morning on State Street, leaving an area stretching from the Capitol to Lake Street in the dark on St. Patrick?s day.