WORT Local News

Here's your WORT Local News for Monday, July 19th, 2021: Madisonians protest Enbridge’s oil pipelines, the state assembly moves to conceal lawmakers’ public records, Wisconsinites struggle to access federal funeral aid and in the second half, we examine the political ideology of Henry David Thoreau, a challenge to the federal DACA program and review two new movies.

Here's your WORT Local News for Thursday, July 15th, 2021: City leaders unveil further details about a new food cart program, the fight over PFAS in Wisconsin’s waterways continues, federal Child Tax Credits start hitting Wisconsinites’ bank accounts today and in the back half, we get a public records masterclass and Radio Chipstone goes Pokemon hunting.

Here's your WORT Local News for Thursday, July 15th, 2021: City leaders unveil further details about a new food cart program, the fight over PFAS in Wisconsin’s waterways continues, federal Child Tax Credits start hitting Wisconsinites’ bank accounts today and in the back half, we get a public records masterclass and Radio Chipstone goes Pokemon hunting.

Here's your WORT Local News for Wednesday, July 14th, 2021: A proposal for a new statue on the state capitol grounds moves forward, Governor Evers addresses the worker shortage, a public health expert explains what we need to know about the Delta coronavirus variant and in the second half, we get the week in local government news, the most comprehensive weather forecast on the air and the headlines from July 1961.

Here's your WORT Local News for Wednesday, July 14th, 2021: A proposal for a new statue on the state capitol grounds moves forward, Governor Evers addresses the worker shortage, a public health expert explains what we need to know about the Delta coronavirus variant and in the second half, we get the week in local government news, the most comprehensive weather forecast on the air and the headlines from July 1961.

Here's your WORT Local News for Tuesday, July 13th, 2021: Madison ends its food waste recycling program, advocates push for new arrest and charging standards for 17-year-olds, Republican lawmakers target big tech companies and in the second half, we learn the latest from the UW campus, diagnose a mysterious bird disease and investigate a telescope malfunction.

Here's your WORT Local News for Tuesday, July 13th, 2021: Madison ends its food waste recycling program, advocates push for new arrest and charging standards for 17-year-olds, Republican lawmakers target big tech companies and in the second half, we learn the latest from the UW campus, diagnose a mysterious bird disease and investigate a telescope malfunction.

Here's your WORT Local News for Monday, July 12th, 2021: Madison’s Bus Rapid Transit program moves forward, we take a look at the Madison Public Library’s Bubbler program and tour a museum on wheels.

Here's your WORT Local News for Monday, July 12th, 2021: Madison’s Bus Rapid Transit program moves forward, we take a look at the Madison Public Library’s Bubbler program and tour a museum on wheels.

Here's your WORT Local News for Thursday, July 8th, 2021: Governor Evers approves Wisconsin’s biennial budget, local leaders again take up police body cameras, Wisconsin’s supreme court restores regulatory powers to the DNR and in the second half, we talk about traditional Japanese printmaking and get a master class in open government.