A man was found dead in Lake Mendota Sunday morning. The Madison Fire Department was called to the scene at 6:13 a.m. Fire ...

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 ...

Wisconsin Historical Society maritime archaeologists recovered a 3,000-year-old dugout canoe from Lake Mendota in Madison, Wis., on Thursday. Wisconsin Historical Society hide caption ...

The discovery in Madison's Lake Mendota comes less than a year after a 1,200-year-old canoe was found, ... That boat also had net sinkers on board used for fishing.

MADISON, Wis. -- Typically by early January, you can take a walk on frozen Lake Mendota without even worrying about falling through the ice. But this year, that's not the case. Ice fishing ...

Despite difficult diving conditions, limited funding, and a tragic death, archaeologists are working against all odds to reveal what may be submerged beneath Madison’s Lake Mendota. Wisconsin ...

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 ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- Three people were rescued after a fishing boat overturned on Lake Mendota Sunday evening. The Madison Fire Department’s Lake Rescue Team was called to the lake at 5:05 p.m. A boat ...

Wisconsin archaeologists recently discovered 11 ancient canoes in Lake Mendota, outside Madison. The canoes were found in a cache that may have been an ancient shoreline.

Jose Jairo Romero, 23, was fishing at the Mendota Pool Park off Bass Avenue before he was reported to be missing about 9:15 p.m. May 21, according to the coroner.

Recently thawed Lake Mendota has become home to migrating swans, ducks and geese. Their yearly return marks the beginning of the nesting season and provides cultivation benefits to the lake ecosystem, ...