WORT Local News

Here's your WORT Local News for Wednesday, August 25th, 2021: Colectivo workers are in the final steps of unionizing, a new bill aims to protect breastfeeding parents, UW-Madison dips its toes into some psychedelic research and in the second half, we get the latest in local government news, the most comprehensive weather forecast on the air and head back to school on Madison in the Sixties.

Here's your WORT Local News for Tuesday, August 24th, 2021: Madisonians protest Enbridge’s line three pipeline, much ado about amplified noise, we examine the impact of a program aimed at fighting the opioid epidemic and in the second half, we’ve got updates from the UW-Madison campus, blue jays, and a slight malfunction in the Milky Way galaxy.

Here's your WORT Local News for Tuesday, August 24th, 2021: Madisonians protest Enbridge’s line three pipeline, much ado about amplified noise, we examine the impact of a program aimed at fighting the opioid epidemic and in the second half, we’ve got updates from the UW-Madison campus, blue jays, and a slight malfunction in the Milky Way galaxy.

Here's your WORT Local News for Monday, August 23rd, 2021: Elementary and middle schoolers gear up for back to school - by sewing their own masks, we get more on an initiative to mitigate regional flooding and look ahead at the week in local government and we remember the one-year anniversary of the Kenosha police shooting of Jacob Blake.

Here's your WORT Local News for Monday, August 23rd, 2021: Elementary and middle schoolers gear up for back to school - by sewing their own masks, we get more on an initiative to mitigate regional flooding and look ahead at the week in local government and we remember the one-year anniversary of the Kenosha police shooting of Jacob Blake.

Here's your WORT Local News for Thursday, August 19th, 2021: Dane County’s new mask mandate faces a legal challenge, new details emerge in the investigation of a former Madison teacher charged with secretly videotaping students and in the second half, we look at local refugee resettlement efforts, get a master class in open government and go antique shopping.

Here's your WORT Local News for Thursday, August 19th, 2021: Dane County’s new mask mandate faces a legal challenge, new details emerge in the investigation of a former Madison teacher charged with secretly videotaping students and in the second half, we look at local refugee resettlement efforts, get a master class in open government and go antique shopping.

Here's your WORT Local News for Wednesday, August 18th, 2021: A developer floats a new project in Madison’s SASY neighborhood, one of Madison affordable housing communities breaks ground on a new redevelopment, we take a closer look at police funding trends in Wisconsin and in the second half, we get the headlines from August 1969.

Here's your WORT Local News for Wednesday, August 18th, 2021: A developer floats a new project in Madison’s SASY neighborhood, one of Madison affordable housing communities breaks ground on a new redevelopment, we take a closer look at police funding trends in Wisconsin and in the second half, we get the headlines from August 1969.

Here's your WORT Local News for Tuesday, August 17th, 2021: Madison’s plan to transition to a cashless bus fare system hits a speed bump, Wisconsin nursing homes weigh requiring COVID vaccines for employees, Public Health Madison Dane County issues a new mask mandate and in the second half, we head outdoors with Madison’s Lussier Center, explain what it takes to rehab wildlife and surf some cosmic waves.