On Monday, we celebrated the addition of 14 more hybrid buses to our city fleet. That makes 20 total or about 10 percent of the 205 buses Metro runs. 

The buses were purchased with 100 percent federal dollars from the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (the stimulus bill passed last year). Because of the cost premium on hybrids we would never have been able to buy that many of them without ARRA.

Read More at Mayor Dave's Blog.

On Sunday, Aug. 1, John Nolen Drive will be closed from Olin Avenue to Williamson Street, from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the U.S. Transplant Games. 

Motorists are encouraged to follow the State Highway 151 signed detour between First Street and Park Street.  

First you might have saw it on the the digital billboard along the Beltline Highway in the town of Madison, but now you may have noticed on Highway 51 in Janesville, a picture of two shrimp dipped in what appears to be oil.

Adams Outdoor Advertising created an ongoing public service message that brings attention to the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

If you thought the billboard seemed to be looking at you, that, too, was intended.  Officials said the single black brushstroke, formed a sad face.