Blue Mounds, Wisconsin

On a crystalline fall night, when the stars seem almost within reach, the view from the dark bank of the Lower Wisconsin River is of shadowy bluff and of still water and reflected constellations.

A Mount Horeb school bus driver, who is also a Blue Mounds village official, resigned from the School District this month after testing positive for alcohol after driving a school route.

The bleak U.S. economy isn't dissuading two Dane County communities from eyeing multimillion-dollar library projects.

One man was killed and 11 people, seven of them children, were injured after a motorcycle crashed into a horse-drawn buggy near Yellowstone Lake State Park in Lafayette County Sunday.

A collision between a horse-drawn buggy and a motorcycle on Sunday killed one person and injured 11 others in southern Wisconsin, the Lafayette County Sheriff's Office reported.

The Dane County Sheriff's Office issued fair warning last week that it was going to crack down on speeders on U.S. Highway 151 which runs from Blue Mounds on the western border of Dane County to the northern ...

The perils of Lake Leota would be familiar to anyone in the town of Blue Mounds, where Stewart Lake was drained a year ago in preparation for a dredging to remove accumulated sediment from the lake bed.

Spurred in part by a triple fatal accident near Mount Horeb a week ago, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation has announced an increased enforcement effort for State Highway 151 from Fond du Lac to the ...

New home construction in Dane County has taken a nose dive, according to figures released by MTD Marketing Services LLC.

Three people were killed and a fourth seriously injured Wednesday in a two-car crash on U.S. 18/151 in the town of Springdale, a crash that closed the eastbound lanes of the four-lane highway for about four ...

For seven years, a group of dedicated volunteers has been trying to find homes for wild cats living on their own outdoors.

The Department of Natural Resources is getting reports of black bears being sighted this summer in southwest Wisconsin, including Dane, Sauk, Richland and Iowa counties.

It was during the Blue Mound Trail Run on June 7 that one of the participants looked at Stephanie Holmes and said what many of the runners might have been thinking.

Doing a "wheelie" in front of a State Patrol officer is usually not a good thing, but Matt W. Melton of Madison probably thought he got away with it after he lost the Trooper trailing him during a 100 mph ...

There is significant damage along portions of the Military Ridge State Trail due to recent storms, causing closure at some sections of the 40-mile recreational corridor running from Fitchburg to Dodgeville, the ...

A Middleton man died Saturday evening when his motorcycle struck a car on County Highway F near Blue Mounds.

Severe weather shut down the World's Largest Brat Fest an hour early Sunday. But organizers still hope the event will reach a new record number of brats served.

A cheese maker reaches new heights underground Marc Eisen on Friday 05/23/2008 Lehner: 'I walk into the cave and I can smell the different smells.' Willi Lehner's cheese stand can be found at the Saturday ...

Behind Willi Lehner's house in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, under a hillock of craggy earth supported by a wall of stone slabs, is a bunker that's supposed to withstand tornadoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes.