Far from dead, Lake Wingra brimmed with fish, and wild rice beds attracted huge flocks of ducks and geese. Based on the 1834 federal land survey, the pre-settlement lake was double the size of today’s ...

The body of a Madison man in his 50s was found in Lake Wingra early Wednesday, police said. Madison police said officers responded at 9:04 a.m. to a report of a body floating in the water just off the ...

Workers with the Madison Parks Division recently removed a century-old marker placed directly on top of an indigenous burial mound near Lake Wingra and Edgewood University as part of a broader effort ...

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin, which sells more than 1.3 million fishing licenses each year, will be the site for the ESPN Great Outdoor Games July 8 - 11, 2004. The state is known for its angling ...

Think of Wingra’s mounds as powerful signs from a vast thousand-year-old ceremonial landscape, where people enacted mound-building and burial rituals to renew and balance their universe. The Four ...