The lock, a vital passage on Madison’s Near East Side, had been closed since Tuesday due to problems with the gate system.

The Tenney Park Lock and Dam, a key passage between Lakes Mendota and Monona in Madison, is currently closed due to ...

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, ...

Lake Mendota in Madison shown frozen over this week. Jan. 15, 2024, was the lake's third-latest freeze date since records began being kept over 170 years ago.

A dugout canoe emerged Tuesday from Madison’s Lake Mendota for the first time in 1,200 years. A team of divers and archaeologists carefully extracted it from lake sediment 27 feet underwater and ...

The Madison Chain of Lakes all have good fishing for all fish species. The largest lake in the “Chain” is 9,842 acre Lake Mendota, which besides having trophy walleye and northern pike, has ...

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.

The canoe was buried less than 100 yards away from a 1,200-year-old canoe found in Lake Mendota last year, by the same Wisconsin archaeologist.

On a brisk Tuesday at Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin, maritime archaeologists, scuba divers, and residents of the Spring Harbor neighborhood stood in the cold as a canoe was brought to shore.

Lake Mendota officially froze over in January, joining the ranks of other lakes in the Northern Hemisphere as a part of new later freeze date trends as the result of a warming climate. Mendota was ...

MADISON (WKOW) – Temperatures below freezing and plenty of cloud cover helped Lake Mendota officially freeze over Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021, according to the Wisconsin State Climatology Office. Lake ...

The canoes were found in Lake Mendota, which is located outside of Madison. The Wisconsin Historical Society explained that two ancient canoes were found in a cache in the lake in 2021 and 2022.