WORT Local News

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.

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.