Nicole Pollack

A nuclear fusion company that got its start at UW-Madison is nearing the end of a nationwide search for the right place to advance the technology it hopes will power the future.

A nuclear fusion company that got its start at UW-Madison is nearing the end of a nationwide search for the right place to advance the technology it hopes will power the future.

Realta Fusion has narrowed its options to two potential sites. One of them is the former Oscar Mayer property on Madison’s East Side.

Cluster of cooling towers of a nuclear power plant emitting smoke under blue sky. (Photo Credit: iStock)

Almost 12 years after The Edgewater reopened on the shore of Lake Mendota, the upscale hotel is looking to make a number of improvements, first by

Emergency room visits for tick bites recently hit their highest level in southern Wisconsin since at least 2022. Visits are up across the region.

Nicole Pollack reports on development for the Wisconsin State Journal. She covers how Madison is changing as its population grows. Most of her work focuses on housing, land use and

Fitchburg will stop using Flock license plate cameras over concerns about driver data being shared with outside agencies, potentially including immigration enforcement.

At Madison's largest Black church, finding space for all the programming requires some finesse.

City staff will provide an update Wednesday on their progress toward developing regulations for data centers, several months after Madison imposed a moratorium on data center proposals.