Lake Mendota typically freezes over a week after Lake Monona, which covers a third less surface area. But Monona was ...

Wisconsin Historical Society archaeologists have identified 16 ancient canoes in Lake Mendota, including several discovered this year. The oldest canoe dates back around 5,200 years, offering insights ...

Sixteen 5,200-year-old canoes have been discovered under Lake Mendota in the U.S., making most of them older than the ...

A body was recovered from Lake Mendota in the early morning hours of July 6, the Madison Fire Department said. The fire department responded around 6:13 a.m. Sunday morning, according to Courtney ...

Treading on Wisconsin’s frozen lakes has gotten more dangerous, creating cost for taxpayers and business owners and calling into question the future of an important state pastime.

MADISON, Wis. -- A pier collapsed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Memorial Union Terrace Monday afternoon, sending dozens of people into the water, officials confirmed to News 3 Now. The call ...

MADISON, Wis. — What a perfect way to start 2026 by learning that the Wisconsin State Climatology Office confirmed Lake Mendota achieved "ice-on" status on the first day of the new year. Dane County's ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a sort of prehistoric parking lot along a Wisconsin lakeshore. The ...

When Robin Rohwer realized she’d been able to generate almost 3,000 genomes from Lake Mendota's myriad bacteria species, she took her laptop down the hall to Brett Baker’s office at The University of ...