2022 year in review: tragedies, triumphs and new faces
2022 brought tragedies and triumphs to Wisconsin, new faces and ancient discoveries, life-changing court rulings and elections that largely preserved the status quo.
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“I was quite shocked, considering how long they waited to say something,” one parent said of the district’s announcement to delay the start of in-person instruction.
Two Mineral Point firefighters were killed in a crash with a semi-trailer truck on Highway 151 early Thursday morning, authorities reported.
The jury deliberated just over two hours before finding Chandler Halderson guilty on all eight charges in last summer's killing of Bart and Krista Halderson.
Jay Rothman, 62, got the unanimous nod in a closed-door Board of Regents meeting Friday.
"'Mom, they just got to firing on me,'" Stacy Morris recalls her son, Quadren L. Wilson, 38, telling her after the Thursday morning shooting.
The Far West Side cinema with five auditoriums offered up $4 movies but abruptly closed Thursday night.
In the face of widespread public support, the Natural Resources Board voted 3-3 with one abstention Wednesday to reject rules to limit certain fluorinated compounds known as PFAS to a list of regulated chemicals in groundwater.
Some businesses say they feel relief and optimism as Public Health Madison and Dane County's mask mandate is poised to expire Tuesday. Others think the expiration is "premature."
The city and county are proposing to locate a men's homeless shelter on the site of a demolished sports pub at 1902 Bartillon Dr., just off Highway 51 between East Towne Mall and Madison Area Technical College.
The court issued a 4-3 ruling, with Justice Brian Hagedorn joining fellow conservatives on the court, in favor of maps drawn by legislative Republicans.
The council, after a marathon meeting with impassioned debate, voted 11-9 about 4 a.m. Wednesday to let the city begin preparations for a yearlong body-worn camera pilot program in the Police Department's North District
Rotting wood covered up by metal panels — and therefore missed by city inspectors in a safety check — caused a second-story balcony to collapse Saturday during the Mifflin Street Block Party. Two people were hospitalized.
Madison police are investigating a suspicious incident at the office of a conservative Christian organization that opposes abortion, on the city’s north side.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos called Mnookin's hire a "blatant partisan selection." UW-Madison officials said Vos and Mnookin have not yet met.
With the county's purchase of the land, the possible landfill passes a key step though it still needs to go through site evaluation and the permitting process.
Sanford shot the parents of his then-girlfriend in the head at the UW Arboretum in March 2020.
In tight-knit Juneau County, violent crime is far and few between. The targeted killing of a retired judge John Roemer on Friday changed that.
The event, organized annually by the River Alliance of Wisconsin for at least a decade to celebrate access to clean water, had been canceled in 2020 and scaled back in 2021 due to COVID-19.
"Gableman's demeaning conduct has discredited the profession," Dane County Circuit Judge Frank Remington wrote.
"Do not give that to him," a top Pence aide told the staffer, Sean Riley, on Jan. 6, 2021, when Riley said the senator wanted to deliver the fake Trump electors to him.
"I always think of how many sunrises it saw, and how many snowstorms, and how many birds sat in the tree, and the rainbows and everything that that tree saw."
The decision is a stunning reversal of a guarantee that permitted medical providers to administer thousands of abortions in Wisconsin each year for decades.
The state’s high court on Wednesday said a holdover appointee of former Gov. Scott Walker can stay in his post — despite his term expiring over a year ago.
The alleged shooter who attacked an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois, and then drove to Madison “seriously contemplated” attacking a celebration in Madison on the same day, police said.
The court found Huebsch’s private communications with utility executives did not taint his vote in favor of the roughly $500 million project, nor did his later application to lead one of those utilities.
The highway's shoulder will be open to drivers when there is heavy traffic on the roadway.
A buyer had been found but the deal fell through forcing the founders to shutter the doors on Thursday.
Trump-backed gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels wins GOP primary, faces Gov. Tony Evers in November
Tim Michels has been endorsed by the former president, while Rebecca Kleefisch is the preferred candidate of the former vice president.
Michael Gableman has been fired, marking an end to the more than $1.1 million taxpayer-funded, GOP-ordered review that has failed to uncover any evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
The open letter decried the “shameful mistreatment of the Black artists, contractors, and staffers throughout the exhibition.”
Saturday's 38-0 trouncing of Illinois State was the first home game where fans could enjoy a multi-level $77.6 million pavilion that marks a major change in the Camp Randall experience.
State agency, courts likely to settle question of whether UW Health can recognize nurses' union.
Halverson has said he didn’t properly vet the anti-government group before joining and quit “two months later” in August 2020.
The city's independent police monitor will do an after-action review when tear gas is deployed.
Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne on Thursday charged a state agent in the Feb. 3 shooting of Quadren Wilson, an unarmed Black man who was wanted by authorities in a drug investigation.
Almost a year after a 1,200-year-old dugout canoe was raised, a 3,000-year-old canoe is pulled from the lake on Thursday and is believed to be the oldest ever found in the Great Lakes Region.
Paul Chryst’s tenure as the University of Wisconsin football team’s coach is over.
No one was hurt in the explosion that happened around 8:35 a.m. in the village about 15 miles south of Madison.
Authorities did not release the name of the person killed or the deputy, who has been placed on leave while the DOJ investigates the shooting.
"As with any growing organization, there is room for improvement," said the retired judge who headed up the investigation.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police are investigating the circulation of "private photos and video" of Badgers volleyball players, includin…
“I want people to know the truth about what happened, and I don't want people to wonder," Kahl's attorney said Kahl told him last week.
The appointment comes after former state parole commission chair John Tate II decided to take a position with the city of Racine, where he is a City Council member.
As the town of Madison becomes part of the cities of Madison and Fitchburg on Monday, some residents will face hassles with changing addresses and street names -- just days before the coming election.
The move could shake up one of the most lucrative parts of health care in a market dominated by SSM Health and UW Health.
Tuesday's midterm election left Wisconsin's four-year status quo — with Democratic Gov. Tony Evers at odds with near-overwhelming Republican majorities in the Legislature — largely unchanged.
If elected, the former deputy mayor, School Board president and police officer would be the city's first Hispanic and third woman mayor.
Luke Fickell will be the next University of Wisconsin football coach, pending approval from the Board of Regents.
"A wrong has been turned right," Copeland told the Wisconsin State Journal after hearing the news.
Decades of industrial use have contaminated the soil and groundwater, raising concerns about whether or how the site can be made safe for habitation.
Fewer marginalized students enroll in stand-alone honors classes, and the district had proposed eliminating them as an equity strategy.
UW-Madison is keeping students in residence halls; utilities say they have enough fuel and staff to keep the heat and lights on
The effort is the latest in a more than two-year battle over the heavily criticized practice of attempting to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity.
