Archived News Releases

MFD will be accepting applications for Firefighter/EMT soon. In anticipation, the department will host a variety of recruitment open houses to help interested candidates prepare for the process. YOU can be a Madison firefighter/EMT!

A reminder for home and business owners to make sure your water pipes are protected from freezing or bursting this winter.

Spice up your leaf piles with this season’s jack-o-lanterns.Streets Division crews will collect pumpkins, hay, corn stalks along with your leaves and other yard waste.Remove wires, candles, string, electric lights, and similar items from your…

The City of Madison’s Planning Division is looking for public feedback as it evaluates the City’s decades-old urban design goals and guidelines. 

Starting Friday, October 31, Nakoma Road will fully re-open to traffic, from Tumalo Trail to Manitou Way, by the end of the day. Utility work will resume with a full closure on a small portion of Manitou Way, near Nakoma Road, and last for…

The railroad contractor is completing the Packers Avenue crossing work on Thursday afternoon.  However, Packers Avenue will remain closed overnight to allow newly placed asphalt to properly cool.  Contractors will begin reopening at 6:30am…

From Monday, November 3 until Friday, November 7, RG Huston will close N 7th Street, between E Washington Avenue and E Mifflin Street, for utility installation for the development project at 2430 E Washington Ave.

 The Madison Fire Department celebrates the recognition of veteran Code Enforcement O

The "Wisconsin Landscape" mosaic will be displayed in the boardroom of the Parks Lakeside Offices at 330 E. Lakeside Street.

The Madison region has been awarded a catalytic grant through the Nature Everywhere Communities initiative, a partnership of the Children & Nature Network, the National League of Cities, and KABOOM!.

Madison Water Utility has filed an application with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSCW) to increase water rates. The increase is necessary due to a 10.3 percent increase in gross plant investment and a 6.2 percent increase in…

Alder Badri Lankella invites you to a virtual lunch-and-learn featuring the newly sworn-in Chief of Police John Patterson and West District Captain Timothy Patton from the City of Madison Police Department. This is a unique opportunity to hear first…

The City of Madison’s annual Food Cart Review, which helps determine where food vendors will be located for the next vending season, has been completed and the final scores have been tallied.

The latest measures being introduced to the Common Council on October 28 focus on creating a new option for the city’s neighborhoods and making more efficient use of Madison’s most-traveled corridors.

For Immediate Release October 27, 2025 

A Black Film Festival, co-hosted by Justified Anger: Courses and Madison Public Library, will take place November 13 (Pinney Library

This is the final week for you to bring scraps to a farmers’ market drop-off site.The sites will accept pumpkins, pumpkin innards from your carved jack-o-lanterns, coffee grounds, eggshells, and other husks, peelings, and so on from fruits and…

Public Health Madison & Dane County is reminding everyone that getting up to date on flu and COVID vaccines is the best defense against getting seriously sick this respiratory virus season.

Beginning Monday night, October 27, the northbound lanes of John Nolen Drive will be closed overnight between Olin Avenue and North Shore Drive to accommodate storm sewer installation work. The nightly closures will occur from 7pm to 6am for…

You are running out of time to bring food scraps to a farmers’ market drop-off site.We are also short on time to reach the food scraps drop-off goal for this season.Food Scraps Drop-off Opportunities at Farmers’ MarketsHere are the locations…