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Ridglan Farms has agreed to sell 1,500 of its nearly two thousand beagles to Big Dog Ranch Rescue and the Center for a Humane Economy for less than a million dollars, the refuge groups announced this week.

Odana Hills Golf Course and Park, located just off of the Beltline on the west side, is Madison’s highest traffic and highest revenue public course – with over 50,000 rounds last year alone. But the 18-hole course and its clubhouse, built in 1956, are falling into disrepair.

Dozens of community members gathered Wednesday night to discuss Madison’s Police Civilian Oversight Board, or PCOB.

Leaders of the independent oversight bodies tasked with holding the Madison Police Department accountable joined the city council Tuesday evening to present their latest

Madison’s First United Methodist Church was packed Tuesday evening, with working Wisconsinites eager to hear directly from this year’s candidates for governor. Amy Lewis, co-president of the United Faculty and Academic Staff union, celebrated the turnout.

Madison can’t approve permits for new data centers and telecommunications centers larger than 10,000 square feet, under a temporary moratorium that passed in the city council this winter. The one-year pause is slated to end in early 2027.

Master Hall, a brutalist apartment building that dates back to the 1960s, is architecturally significant and an important artifact in Madison’s social history. That’s according to a sixteen page nomination that John Rolling, a member of the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation, submitted to the city arguing that the building qualifies for landmark status.

This week marks the 61st anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut, a landmark decision from the United States Supreme Court that guaranteed married couples’ access to contraception and has effectively blocked state-level restrictions ever since.

The dozens of images that lined the State Capitol rotunda Wednesday morning represent just a fraction of the children who’ve lost their lives to gun violence in Wisconsin. In recognition of Gun Violence Awareness Month, the annual display began in 2023 with a little over a dozen children. Last year, they used 42 easels.

Aeiramique Glass joins WORT to describe the next steps, after Monday's bombshell report disputing the official cause of a 2024 police custody death.