Mayor Adams’ budget cuts prompted the Sanitation and Parks Departments to scale back cleanliness initiatives last year, causing some public spaces in the city to get dirtier, according to City Hall’s ...

MADISON, Wis. -- A person was rescued from their vehicle after it broke through the ice on Lake Mendota Thursday. At around 3:57 p.m., the Madison Fire Department Lake Rescue team was dispatched to ...

NAIROBI, Kenya Jan 13 – Nairobi Governor Sakaja Johnson took a hands-on approach to transforming the city’s cleanliness by leading a night-long cleaning exercise that extended into the early hours of ...

MENDOTA – After losing to La Salle-Peru by three points in the first round of the Plano Christmas Classic on Dec. 23, the Mendota boys basketball team was looking forward to Saturday’s rematch.

Lake-effect snow typically happens when the lakes are ice-free and the water is still relatively warm. As winter drags on, presumably cooling the water and perhaps forming ice sheets, the ...

Lake Mendota bacteria evolve yearly, adapting to seasonal changes Unique patterns show bacteria returning to similar genetic states Study offers insights into climate-driven microbial evolution ...

Beneath its semi-solid surface, Lake Mendota is in a state of midwinter purgatory, according to the Wisconsin State Climatology Office. The lake did freeze on Dec. 25, but conditions made it difficult ...

Like Bill Murray in the movie Groundhog Day, bacteria in Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota appear stuck in a perpetual cycle – but in this case, it’s more aptly described as a “Groundhog Year.” According to a ...

According to a new study in Nature Microbiology, researchers found that through the course of a year, most individual species of bacteria in Lake Mendota rapidly evolved, apparently in response to ...