MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - Firefighters rescued three people from a fishing boat that capsized over the weekend on Lake Mendota. Madison Fire Department reported responding after 5 p.m. to the lake ...

The Clean Lakes Alliance kicked off its 14th annual Mendota Freeze Contest Sunday, prompting Wisconsinites to submit guesses on when they believe the lake will fully freeze. Clean Lakes Alliance ...

The Lake Mendota Dugout Canoe Discovery. Special ... There's a lot of fish that congregate along the wall, and our intention was just to chase fish and pick up trash and kill time.

The Jan 15. freeze date was the lake's third-latest freeze date since monitoring began over 170 years ago. Mendota froze three weeks later than last year, when it was declared frozen on Christmas Day.

How a 1,200-year-old canoe found in Wisconsin's Lake Mendota last summer is serving as a bridge for tribal relations. ... Those artifacts are net sinkers used to sink a net for catching fish.

It all started last June, when UW-Madison student Ellie Eisenberg dropped her phone into Lake Mendota by accident after boating with some friends. "I went to grab something in the boat, and plunk, ...

Wisconsin Historical Society maritime archaeologists, alongside partners from Wisconsin’s Native Nations, recovered on Thursday, Sept. 22 a 3,000-year-old dugout canoe from Lake Mendota.

The Jan 15. freeze date was the lake's third-latest freeze date since monitoring began over 170 years ago. Mendota froze three weeks later than last year, when it was declared frozen on Christmas Day.

Passerby Barbara Granick said she was walking along Lake Mendota near Picnic Point when she saw a car break through the ice. “There were six or seven people from the shore with me who were just ...

Lake Mendota froze over on Jan. 7, 2022, during last year’s ... of Natural Resources recommend waiting until there’s at least four inches of ice built up before heading out to ice fish, ...

A dugout canoe used by indigenous people 3,000 years ago recently recovered from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota is the oldest canoe ever found in the Great Lakes region, the Wisconsin Historical ...

Just a few weeks ago, state climatologist Steve Vavrus said he worried that the lack of ice on Madison's Lake Mendota could damper the capital city's Clean Lakes Alliance's Frozen Assets ...