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

• We hear Senator Baldwin's plan to lower the cost of housing, child care, and household goods,
• Explain how you can weigh in on phase one of the Madison LakeWay project,
• Hear Dr. Donald Wuebbles' climate change predictions for the Great Lakes region,
• Discuss the power of interfaith activism,
• Travel back in time to 1962,
• Get the scoop on the 2025 Lumberjack World Championships,
• And much more.

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

• We detail the city's latest "Vision Zero" rollout,
• Learn how Madison is using neighborhood-specific data to identify areas of need,
• Outline the dairy industry's reliance on immigrant labor,
• Meet the minds behind a local, vegan donut business,
• Explore the many forms of bird migration,
• And much more.

Here's your local news for Monday, July 21, 2025:

• We find out how state election officials are responding to the "confluence of errors" at the Madison Clerk's Office that left 193 absentee ballots uncounted last November,
• Consider the use of AI in the newsroom after a recent snafu at the Wisconsin State Journal,
• Dig into an unusual, election-related request from the U.S. Department of Justice,
• Commemorate the day that a whistleblower exposed the Tuskegee Syphilis Study,
• Taste-test another shot,
• Review two new documentaries,
• And much more.

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

• We learn how much private attorneys are paid in the Legislature's partisan battles with the governor,
• Detail a habitat restoration effort that's improving critical wetlands in Green Bay,
• Meet Madison City Assessor Michelle Drea,
• Tackle some especially tricky questions about Wisconsin's open government laws,
• Share advice on where to cast your fishing line this weekend,
• Celebrate Forward Madison's recent hometown victory,
• And much more.

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

• We detail the history behind a controversial proposal that dominated yesterday's city council meeting,
• Get some safety recommendations from local public health officials, following the recent spike in drug overdoses,
• Investigate online rental scams,
• Learn how an independent journalist is covering immigration issues in Baltimore,
• Broadcast the most comprehensive weather report on the airwaves,
• Travel back in time to 1969,
• And much more.

Here's your local news for Tuesday, July 15, 2025:

• We share an update on the search for the next chief of the Madison Police Department,
• Learn how a local nonprofit is fighting to preserve and improve the Yahara River watershed,
• Explore the complexities of national milk pricing,
• Sit down with Madison Sourdough's bread manager,
• Celebrate a big milestone at the Dane County Humane Society's Wildlife Rehabilitation Center,
• And much more.

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

• We consider the community-building power of public art,
• Learn how federal Medicaid cuts could impact a Wisconsin nonprofit that serves people with disabilities,
• Detail Wisconsin high schoolers' rising participation in dual enrollment programs,
• Share the local government's calendar for the week ahead,
• Celebrate George McGovern's birthday,
• Taste-test a Jelly Donut shot,
• Review two new features,
• And much more.

Here's your local news for Thursday, July 10, 2025:

• We find out why the Sierra Club of Wisconsin is collecting thousands of origami fish,
• Learn about Big Tobacco's connection to a new state statute restricting the sale of e-cigarettes,
• Debut our new feature "Global Currents, Local Ripples,"
• Hear criticism of the state budget from a leftist perspective,
• Meet an artist who carves love and loss into stone,
• And much more.

Here's your local news for Wednesday, July 9, 2025:

• We share the latest on a housing package that's headed to the full city council next week,
• Honor the Dalai Lama's 90th birthday,
• Find out why environmental advocates are celebrating yesterday's ruling in the state Supreme Court,
• Learn how a stand-up comic is using laughter to defend democracy,
• Broadcast the most comprehensive weather report on the airwaves,
• Travel back in time to 1964,
• And much more.

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

• We check the progress on a parole program that's taken the Department of Corrections eleven years - and counting - to implement,
• Learn how today's decision from the state Supreme Court secures Wisconsin's ban on conversion therapy,
• Look at a legal fight over a dairy farmer who refuses to own a gun,
• Find out how some new signs in the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore reflect the Trump administration's attempts to rewrite history,
• Describe what it takes to rehabilitate sick and injured blue jays,
• And much more.