The Badger Herald is one of the nation’s largest fully independent student newspapers, located in Madison, Wisconsin and founded in 1969. The Herald publishes monthly print editions and provides daily ...

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article erroneously said that the university had purchased the land of Lake Forest in 1947. Entombed within the deepest reaches of the University of Wisconsin ...

Climate change caused 262 deaths in the past year in the U.S. alone. A recent United Nations report reflects an even grimmer future — before a child born today turns 30, the impacts of climate change ...

Following a surge of protests taking down and challenging statues with racist origins around the world, University of Wisconsin students and organizations have demanded the Abraham Lincoln statue on ...

Through a 2021 policy change, college athletes are officially able to profit off of their name, image and likeness. NIL deals allow college athletes to be compensated for the revenue they bring to ...

The man, the myth, the mystery. Few campus legends permeate as deep into University of Wisconsin’s student consciousness as the myth of Tunnel Bob. The shadowy figure has earned his spot among the ...

“People talk to you differently and listen to what you have to say very differently from how they listen to another man.” That was a University of Wisconsin nuclear engineering and physics student.

Women’s History Month was established in 1987 to celebrate and encourage education about the history of women’s contributions to U.S. history, according to the Library of Congress. Wisconsin Women ...

Milwaukee native Ramiah Whiteside was just 17 years old when a judge sentenced him to 47 years in prison. While Whiteside only served 20 years of his sentence, he cycled through 11 different ...

When Mike Grosskreutz started working at the Wisconsin Rapids paper mill in 1980, he thought his job would last until retirement. After all, the paper mill was the place everyone in the area wanted to ...

Wisconsin legislators’ policy proposals regarding minors’ participation in and exposure to public nudity might be too broad ...

Modern transportation systems are not always built with successful accommodations and continue to indirectly discriminate against populations with disabilities. This unintentional discrimination and ...