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Plans call for a series of improvements to bridge the separation between Downtown and Lake Monona's hard-to-reach shoreline.
Over half a century of arguments and a few false starts, Madison debated whether to build a Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired ...
The Mad-City Ski Team won its second straight Wisconsin State Water Ski Show Championship and will perform Sunday at Lake ...
The Madison police department is investigating after a suspect victim in a rollover crash fled into Lake Monona, and is refusing the get out of the lake.
The Lake Rescue Team, which is the primary rescue team for Madison’s waterways, has been deployed to 13 rescues since May 1, 2025. That’s up from last year, with just four rescues from May 1 to July ...
MADISON (WKOW) -- The city of Madison held a virtual public meeting on the first phase of the Madison LakeWay project Monday.
The Lake Monona Waterfront Design Challenge held its final presentations Thursday at the Madison Public Library, where three design teams offered plans to redesign the Lake Monona Waterfront between ...
Lake Monona’s 1.7-mile waterfront is set to undergo a complete redesign at the top of next year. Three teams have met over the past several months in a competition over what proposal receive the ...
Lake Monona is an integral component of downtown Madison, Wisconsin, however, its lack of connectivity to the downtown and urban park spaces remains to be seen—not for much longer.
Lake Monona has dropped 5 inches in the last week, but water is still high, officials said Wednesday. The city of Monona said residents should keep their sandbags in place as Lake Monona is still ...
MADISON, Wis. -- Firefighters in Madison responded to a large fire in a marshy area near the shore Lake Monona Tuesday afternoon. Crews were called to an area of off Bridge Road, about 25 feet ...
MADISON -- Dane County officials say a body was recovered from Lake Monona near John Nolen and North Shore Drive early Tuesday morning, October 11th -- and the body is that of a Milwaukee man ...