Dane County, WI

Millions across the country plan to camp this Memorial Day weekend. With this weekend being the unofficial kickoff to summer, millions across the country are expected to camp this weekend. Updated: 5 hours ago. |. A new update to the Dept. of Health Services website offered a glimpse of the...

Long-time Democratic Secretary of State Doug La Follette tells Isthmus it’s “50-50” he will be able to collect the 2,000 signatures needed to make it on the ballot this year. “I’ll be real honest, it’s going to be close this year. I might not make it,” says...

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - The death of a 38-year-old woman is being investigated Wednesday by the Dane County Sheriff’s Office. The agency revealed that it responded to a home around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday on York Center Road in the Town of York. Authorities did not state the reason they responded to the home.

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TOWN OF YORK, Wis. — The Dane County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a woman’s death in the northeastern part of the county. In a news release, the sheriff’s office said deputies responded to a home on York Center Road in the town of York around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. The county’s medical examiner’s office conducted an autopsy on the woman’s body...

Rising material prices and legal expenses are expected to add nearly $50 million more to the cost of a power transmission line being built across southern Wisconsin.

MADISON, Wis. — Some schools and parents in rural Dane County looked to law enforcement to increase security presence in the wake of the school shooting in Texas that killed 19 students and 2 adults. “We understand that parents are extremely upset today, concerned, especially if you have children that are in the age range of the children that were...

Wisconsin jails and prisons take different paths to treatment for opioid use disorder. Individuals receiving medication for an opioid use disorder (MOUD) will be able to continue their treatment in Dane County, Wisconsin, according to a recently announced program by County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett. “As an addiction medicine physician, I...

MADISON, Wis. — All lanes of the westbound Beltline at Todd Drive are back open after multiple lanes closed for roughly 45 minutes Wednesday afternoon due to a crash. The incident occurred just after 3 p.m. Wednesday. Crews with the City of Madison, Town of Madison and Dane County...

MADISON, Wis. — Some schools and parents in rural Dane County looked to law enforcement to increase security presence in the wake of the school shooting in Texas that killed 19 students and 2 adults. “We understand that parents are extremely upset today, concerned, especially if you have children...

FITCHBURG, Wis. — The Dane County Sheriff’s Office said a car crash was all clear early Thursday morning after it caused all eastbound lanes to be blocked on Highway 14, near Haight Farm Rd. UPDATE: Man killed in wrong-way crash with semi on Highway 14 in Fitchburg According to the Department of Transportation, the lanes were blocked for almost five...

MADISON, Wis. — The two men convicted in the murders of Dr. Beth Potter and Robin Carre will be sentenced this summer, online court records show. Khari Sanford, 21, was found guilty of two counts of first-degree intentional homicide with party-to-a-crime modifiers earlier this week. Sanford and his girlfriend — Potter and Carre’s daughter — had been living in an Airbnb rented by Potter and Carre at the time of the murders after months of rising tensions between the parents and the couple over issues like academics and house rules.