The proposed 2023 city of Madison budget offers mostly good news for city services, with few cuts and a range of new offerings. It is made possible by the city’s ongoing recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, robust pace of development and use of federal aid.

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A legal firm representing a group of construction and development interests formally filed an appeal Wednesday after a Dane County judge ruled in favor of an ordinance requiring high-rise buildings to be designed to prevent bird collisions. 

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Emergency responders had to cut a man out of a mixing truck’s drum to rescue him after he fell into it earlier this month, the Madison Fire Department announced.

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Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway wants to spend $425,000 to design a system to filter PFAS chemicals out of a city well.

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State officials have picked Milwaukee's Continuum Architects + Planners and the national architecture firm Smith Group to design a new $120 million museum for the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison.

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Mortenson announced Monday that it has completed financing and acquired the rights to build a 262-room hotel at Madison's Judge Doyle Square development.

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A group of Wisconsin mayors is calling on Congress to pass a spending plan they say could help prepare Madison for future flooding, stave off shoreline erosion in Sheboygan and fund local road repairs throughout the state — projects that will be too large to take on without federal help.

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The Wisconsin Historical Society expects to have a new museum by 2026 in its current location across from the Capitol square — rather than in a building at a state-owned site off East Washington Avenue.

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Wisconsin workers reinstalled two statues Tuesday on the state Capitol grounds that protesters ripped down during a demonstration last year in the wake of George Floyd's death.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican-controlled legislative committee moved Tuesday to block the University of Wisconsin System from taking several steps to fight the spread of coronavirus without its approval. The Wisconsin State Journal reports the committee’s move comes as ...

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