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.

Here's your local news for Monday, July 7, 2025:

• We put Wisconsin's new budget under the microscope, with help from WisPolitics editor JR Ross and two child care advocates,
• Take a look at the University of Wisconsin's military spending,
• Remember the 1834 abolitionist riot in New York City,
• Teach you how to make a popular cocktail,
• Review two new movies,
• And much more.

Here's your local news for Thursday, July 3, 2025:

• We explain why the governor rushed to sign Wisconsin's next budget,
• Outline an amendment that's heading back to Madison's Police Civilian Oversight Board for the sixth time,
• Meet Madison Public Library Director Tana Elias,
• Discuss some recent changes to Wisconsin's Public Records Guide,
• Share the best spots to cast your fishing line this holiday weekend,
• Celebrate the Flamingos' long-awaited victory,
• And much more.

Here's your local news for Wednesday, July 2, 2025:

• We outline some state budget amendments rejected in the Senate's marathon floor session today,
• Find out how UW Health nurses are continuing their fight for collective bargaining rights,
• Check in with Planned Parenthood after today’s victory in the state Supreme Court,
• Consider journalism's role in democracy,
• Travel back in time to 1968,
• And much more.

Here's your local news for Tuesday, July 1, 2025:

• We outline the latest partisan debate over the state budget,
• Consider the future of communications at the Dane County jail,
• Share some dairy industry updates,
• Meet a local ice cream maker,
• Celebrate one of nature's tiniest travelers,
• And much more.

Here's your local news for Monday, June 30, 2025:

• We find out why victim service providers are sounding the alarm on the Legislature's proposed state budget,
• Join this weekend's Queer Liberation March,
• Share the local government's calendar for the week ahead,
• Hear a radical historian's take on Independence Day,
• Review two movies,
• And much more.

Here's your local news for Thursday, June 26, 2025:

• We attend a city budget engagement session at the Black Business Hub,
• Hear the details on a health care bill that got unanimous support in both chambers of the state Legislature,
• Meet city of Madison Human Resources Director Erin Hillson,
• Find out why police oversight advocates are sounding the alarm on a proposal headed to the city council,
• Explain why you need building permits,
• Watch a face take shape in clay,
• And much more.

Here's your local news for Wednesday, June 25, 2025:

• We get the details on a bid to revitalize the western corner of Capitol Square,
• Hear the pros and cons of a proposed low-income housing development on Verona Road,
• Brave the heat to participate in a flax processing demonstration,
• Share lessons in solidarity from the Act Up movement,
• Broadcast the most comprehensive weather report on the airwaves,
• Travel back in time to 1966,
• And much more.

Here's your local news for Tuesday, June 24, 2025:

• We hear how federal decision making could impact the city of Madison,
• Check in with environmental advocates after today's win in the state Supreme Court,
• Discuss the skyrocketing price of beef,
• Find out why AARP Wisconsin supports expanding housing options,
• Get a baby season update from the Dane County Humane Society's Wildlife Rehabilitation Center,
• And much more.

Here's your local news for Monday, June 23, 2025:

• We explain why Senate Republicans stripped funding allocations last week from a handful of bipartisan bills,
• Discuss the state budget with a pair of veteran journalists,
• Share the local government's calendar for the week ahead,
• Celebrate a trailblazing author's birthday,
• Teach you how to make a summertime cocktail,
• Review two very different films,
• And much more.