WORT Local News

Here's your local news for Wednesday, April 16, 2025:

• We take a closer look at the U.S. Save Act,
• Learn how Sun Prairie's council voted last night on a police tech budget request,
• Check in with the RCC Sexual Violence Resource Center ahead of their move next month,
• Discuss the making of the Daily Cardinal's special issue on immigration,
• Broadcast the most comprehensive weather report on the airwaves,
• Travel back in time to 1967,
• And much more.

Here's your local news for Tuesday, April 15, 2025:

• We head to the state Capitol for a Tax Day sit-in,
• Check in with a now-former Dane County supervisor who was priced out of her district in downtown Madison,
• Dissect a high-profile newspaper ad defending Roundup's corporate manufacturers,
• Take stock of Wisconsin's roughly 4,000 dams,
• Explore how dead and fallen trees can serve as crucial nesting locations,
• And much more.

Here's your local news for Monday, April 14, 2025:

• We hear prison reform advocates' key goals for this spring,
• Get the details on a bill that would bring the question of campaign spending directly to Wisconsin voters,
• Find out why a measure that would make gun safes tax-free is getting bipartisan support,
• Share the local government's calendar for the week ahead,
• Remember one of the most violent strikes of the early twentieth century,
• Review a new series and an old classic,
• And much more.

Here's your local news for Thursday, April 10, 2025:

• We get the answer to another lingering question from last week's local election,
• Hear the details on a new investigation that tracked the exploding use of bail jumping charges in Wisconsin,
• Respond to some open records FAQs,
• Hear what's biting in the Madison area,
• Check in on the Mingos' rollercoaster of a season,
• And much more.

Here's your local news for Wednesday, April 9, 2025:

• We check in on statewide and local food programs as they navigate federal funding cuts,
• Preview what's on the docket for Wisconsin's highest court,
• Learn about an immigrant rights group on the UW-Madison campus,
• 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, April 8, 2025:

• We get the answer to a lingering question from last Tuesday's local election,
• Check in with Wisconsin nonprofits following the latest round of federal funding cuts,
• Hear how the former ambassador to the United Nations responded last week to protesters at a UW-Madison event,
• Explain how falling dairy prices are leading to losses for Wisconsin farmers,
• Talk mocktails at Madison's Blind Shot Social Club,
• Share a springtime update from the Dane County Wildlife Rehabilitation Center,
• And much more.

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

• We head to downtown Madison for this Saturday's "Hands Off!" protest,
• Outline the results from a new, statewide survey on big money in politics,
• Hear how a state Democrat wants to fix Wisconsin's affordable housing crisis,
• Share the local government's calendar for the week ahead,
• Commemorate the National Day for Immigrant Justice in 2006,
• Close out our shots special,
• Review two new features,
• And much more.

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

• We meet the newcomer elected to Madison's school board on Tuesday,
• Check in with Metro Transit's general manager after yesterday's announcement that he's leaving the job,
• Look forward to the Wisconsin Film Festival - and this weekend's screening of “Art Speigelman: Disaster is My Muse!”,
• Sit down with an alder who wants safer streets in Madison,
• Share a story of redemption,
• Talk countertop options,
• Remember the Long Hot Summer of 1967,
• And much more.

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

• We have the results from yesterday's election, which include a drubbing for Republicans and some upsets on the city council,
• Measure student sentiment toward high profile political races,
• Broadcast the most comprehensive weather report on the airwaves,
• Travel back in time to 1965,
• And much more.

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

• We follow the money in this spring's race for city council,
• Hear Wisconsin Congressman Mark Pocan's take on the work ahead,
• Investigate some so-called "mozzarella sticks,"
• Get a federal funding update from Wisconsin's DATCP secretary,
• Learn how wildlife rehabilitators reunited a little owlet with its parents,
• And much more.