WORT Local News

Here's your WORT Local News for Thursday, October 28th, 2021: State lawmakers weigh public input on Wisconsin’s redistricting process, Madison East High School’s Principal gets transferred, rural fire departments are facing staffing shortages and in the second half, we discuss online misinformation, open government issues and the deeper meaning of pants.

Here's your WORT Local News for Tuesday, October 26th, 2021: Protesters push for immigration reform, the Kyle Rittenhouse trial is set to begin next week and in the second half, we learn the latest from the U-W campus, wild critters prepare for winter and go on an inter-galactic hunt for exoplanets.

Here's your WORT Local News for Tuesday, October 26th, 2021: Protesters push for immigration reform, the Kyle Rittenhouse trial is set to begin next week and in the second half, we learn the latest from the U-W campus, wild critters prepare for winter and go on an inter-galactic hunt for exoplanets.

Here's your WORT Local News for Monday, October 25th, 2021: Despite setbacks, a south Madison development pushes forward, state lawmakers vote to expand work hours for teens, Senate Republicans launch their own investigation into the November 2020 election and in the second half, we get the week ahead in local government, revisit Madison’s 2022 budget and remember the life of the actress Ruby Dee.

Here's your WORT Local News for Monday, October 25th, 2021: Despite setbacks, a south Madison development pushes forward, state lawmakers vote to expand work hours for teens, Senate Republicans launch their own investigation into the November 2020 election and in the second half, we get the week ahead in local government, revisit Madison’s 2022 budget and remember the life of the actress Ruby Dee.

Here's your WORT Local News for Wednesday, December 20th, 2021: State lawmakers pass several Republican-backed abortion bills, we preview the Wisconsin Science Festival, and in the second half, we get the week in local government news, the most comprehensive weather forecast on the air and remember the Battle of Dow.

Here's your WORT Local News for Wednesday, December 20th, 2021: State lawmakers pass several Republican-backed abortion bills, we preview the Wisconsin Science Festival, and in the second half, we get the week in local government news, the most comprehensive weather forecast on the air and remember the Battle of Dow.

Here's your WORT Local News for Tuesday, October 19th, 2021: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is being sued to release election probe records, we check in with Madison's new crisis response team and in the second half, we learn the latest from the U-W, recognize the work of local wildlife veterinary technicians and visit distant triple star systems.

Here's your WORT Local News for Tuesday, October 19th, 2021: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is being sued to release election probe records, we check in with Madison's new crisis response team and in the second half, we learn the latest from the U-W, recognize the work of local wildlife veterinary technicians and visit distant triple star systems.

Here's your WORT Local News for Monday, October 18th, 2021: A coalition of multi-faith organizations sound off on climate change, Dane County adopts a tentative redistricting plan, we take a deep dive into a mysterious organization influencing Wisconsin’s fall wolf hunt and in the second half, we look back on twenty years of Madison’s social justice center and we speak with the winners of this year’s Forward Art Prize.