This is your WORT local news for Thursday, February 23.

• A Madison alder is sounding the alarm about the ongoing caregiver crisis,
• A growing number of Wisconsin workers are working from home, but those opportunities aren’t available to everyone equally
• A new report shows traffic crashes fell in Dane County last year, yet traffic fatalities are on the rise,
• And in the second half, how one Madison filmmaker got his start, the myth of the government stealing your gas stove, and how a language barrier led to one man being blamed for the death of his son.