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

Volunteers will be out in full force over the next two weeks for the annual Clean Boats, Clean Waters Landing Blitz.They’ll ...

According to 10Best, Lakes Michigan and Superior and Elkhart Lake were voted among both the 10 best lakes in the country; the ...

Archaeologists uncovered ancient canoes buried beneath Lake Mendota, offering rare insight into prehistoric life in Wisconsin ...

Washington’s mountain goat population is rising fast, leading to habitat strain, human encounters, and growing debate over ...

It's summertime in Dane County, which means families are headed to the lakes to enjoy the beaches to have some fun.

Jerry Frautschi and his wife, Pleasant Rowland, have contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to many of the city’s major projects.

Lake Mendota had not been on the archaeologist’s radar, and she certainly wasn’t hunting for dugout canoes. Thomsen usually looks for shipwrecks, like 19th-century freighters. ...

Lake Street Park on Lake Mendota used to be an asphalt road. Now, it serves as a greenspace that prevents direct runoff into lakes, reducing pollution from sand and salt. James Tye with Clean Lakes ...

Elkhart Lake ranked No. 2 and Deland Park's north beach ranked No. 4 in respective categories in the USA TODAY 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards.

Results of research over 20 years at Lake Mendota in Wisconsin now holds out hope through a process called ‘phage therapy', where viruses are used to kill disease-causing bacteria.

The Mendota Rowing Club is scheduled to celebrate the renovation of its historic home Saturday, ... was constructed in 1915 and holds the title of the oldest standing boathouse on Lake Mendota.