WORT Local News

Here's your local news for Wednesday, April 30, 2025:

• We get the details on a proposal responding to the recent rash of attacks on Madison bus drivers,
• Hear what legal experts have to say about Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan's arrest,
• Discuss the benefits of youth apprenticeships,
• Explore shifting protest strategies at UW-Madison,
• Broadcast the most comprehensive weather report on the airwaves,
• Celebrate the birthday of Madison's longe...

Here's your local news for Tuesday, April 29, 2025:

• We outline the findings in an internal investigation of Madison's uncounted absentee ballots last fall,
• Hear what labor organizers had to say during yesterday's Workers Memorial Day celebration,
• Get the details on a petition urging the governor to appoint pro-labor representatives to the UW System's Board of Regents,
• Share the rundown on this year's Cheese Makers convention,
• Recoun...

Here's your local news for Monday, April 28, 2025:

• We catch you up on what's happened since Judge Hannah Dugan's high profile arrest on Friday,
• Find out why Wisconsin joined a multi-state lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's anti-DEI orders,
• Share the local government's calendar for the week ahead,
• Learn how a secret collective provided reproductive care pre-Roe v. Wade,
• Teach you how to make a popular cocktail,
• Review two ...

Here's your local news for Thursday, April 24, 2025:

• We find out why the Beacon unexpectedly closed all day yesterday,
• Detail a new report that found a rising number of unhoused students in Wisconsin public schools,
• Hear the mission behind UNA-USA Dane County's second annual "Women's Summit,"
• Learn about a state office that answers the public's open records questions,
• Look forward to opening day of the regular fishing season,
• Get the...

Here's your local news for Wednesday, April 23, 2025:

• We speak with lobbyists who want state lawmakers to repeal Wisconsin's anti-boycott law,
• Attend a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Wisconsin History Center,
• Find out how Madison's Social Security office is faring, amid understaffing and a controversial policy change,
• Recap why UW-Madison staff rallied last week,
• Broadcast the most comprehensive weather report on the airwaves,
• C...

Here's your local news for Tuesday, April 22, 2025:

• We find out how a new coalition is fostering conversations about climate change,
• Get the details on a report examining Wisconsin industry pre- and post-tariffs,
• Discuss state and national labor issues with a local attorney,
• Explain why Madison is a dairy marketing hub,
• Take a field trip to Troy Farm,
• Gear up for the Dane County Wildlife Rehabilitation Center's busiest season,
• And muc...

Here's your local news for Thursday, April 17, 2025:

• We head to Library Mall for a rally pressuring UW higher-ups to resist the Trump administration,
• Highlight Black maternal health disparities and the community-based efforts working towards a solution,
• Find out how yesterday's announcement fast-tracking the Enbridge 5 pipeline could affect ongoing litigation against the Canadian oil company,
• Sit down with a self-described "recover...

Here's your local news for Wednesday, April 16, 2025:

• We take a closer look at the U.S. Save Act,
• Learn how Sun Prairie's council voted last night on a police tech budget request,
• Check in with the RCC Sexual Violence Resource Center ahead of their move next month,
• Discuss the making of the Daily Cardinal's special issue on immigration,
• Broadcast the most comprehensive weather report on the airwaves,
• Travel back in time to 1967,
• And m...

Here's your local news for Monday, April 14, 2025:

• We hear prison reform advocates' key goals for this spring,
• Get the details on a bill that would bring the question of campaign spending directly to Wisconsin voters,
• Find out why a measure that would make gun safes tax-free is getting bipartisan support,
• Share the local government's calendar for the week ahead,
• Remember one of the most violent strikes of the early twentieth century...

Here's your local news for Tuesday, April 8, 2025:

• We get the answer to a lingering question from last Tuesday's local election,
• Check in with Wisconsin nonprofits following the latest round of federal funding cuts,
• Hear how the former ambassador to the United Nations responded last week to protesters at a UW-Madison event,
• Explain how falling dairy prices are leading to losses for Wisconsin farmers,
• Talk mocktails at Madison's Blin...

Here's your local news for Monday, April 7, 2025:

• We head to downtown Madison for this Saturday's "Hands Off!" protest,
• Outline the results from a new, statewide survey on big money in politics,
• Hear how a state Democrat wants to fix Wisconsin's affordable housing crisis,
• Share the local government's calendar for the week ahead,
• Commemorate the National Day for Immigrant Justice in 2006,
• Close out our shots special,
• Review two new fea...

Here's your local news for Thursday, April 3, 2025:

• We meet the newcomer elected to Madison's school board on Tuesday,
• Check in with Metro Transit's general manager after yesterday's announcement that he's leaving the job,
• Look forward to the Wisconsin Film Festival - and this weekend's screening of “Art Speigelman: Disaster is My Muse!”,
• Sit down with an alder who wants safer streets in Madison,
• Share a story of redemption,
• Talk cou...