This is your WORT local news for Wednesday, June 28.

• City officials are canceling events as the air quality reaches very unhealthy levels, 
• Madison’s beaches are open for swimming, but they will remain unstaffed as the city grapples with a lifeguard shortage,
• The latest Marquette Law School Poll takes a look at voter's thoughts on next year’s Senate race,
• And in the second half, an in-depth report from a Verona Area School District meeting, tragedy strikes at the Henry Vilas Zoo in 1966, and the most comprehensive weather report on the airwaves.