WORT Local News

This is your WORT Local News for Thursday, April 7. On todays show, a new report outlines strategies to combat the opioid epidemic, the ACLU of Wisconsin opens a records request from the Waukesha School District, and in the second half, furries at Waunakee High School, the best beers for the Easter season, and the hidden meaning behind abandoned houses.

This is your WORT Local News for Wednesday, April 6. On todays show, election day was yesterday, and we’ll take a look through all of the results, two counties in western Wisconsin vote to voice their support for clean water throughout the region, and in the second half, we take a trip to the geology museum; how Madison processed the death of Martin Luther King Jr; and the most comprehensive weather report on the airwaves.

This is your WORT Local News for Tuesday, April 5. On todays show, it's Election Day, and there are still a couple of hours left to vote, we hear about Madison's latest weather forecast, and, a proposed city-county Homeless Bill of Rights aims to improve the condition and dignity of people without permanent shelter.

This is your WORT Local News for Monday, April 4th. On todays show, Jefferson County residents voice concern about birds with avian flu, environmental activists are pushing to move away from using ethanol as a fuel source, school board races across the state get bombarded with ultra-conservative candidates, and in the second half, a visit to a local arcade, this week in city government, and two new movie reviews.

This is your WORT Local News for Thursday, March 31. On todays show, we go to Waunakee for the final batch of candidates running for a seat on the Dane County Board, the Madison CARES program expands to offer services city-wide, and in the second half, what information we can get from the government about elections, what goats have to do with beer, and what does looming have to do with meditation.

This is your WORT Local News for Wednesday, March 30. On todays show, we break down the newest Marquette Law School poll and learn what people think of Katanji Brown-Jackson, we continue our election coverage with a trip to McFarland to learn more about the candidates running for Dane County Board, a Madison Starbucks becomes the third in the state to try and form a union, and in the second half, how the state profits from the current housing market, Madison officials in the 19-60s fight against counter culture, and your weekly weather forecast.

This is your WORT Local News for Tuesday, March 29th. On todays show, a legal aid group is working to make eviction notices not stay on your record for decades, we go to southeast Dane County to check out another supervisor race in the spring election, a western Wisconsin high school adds a unique sport to its extracurricular offerings, and in the second half, the Daily Cardinal starts its spring semester’s Action Project, owlets are beginning to hatch, and we travel back in time to the beginning of the universe.

This is your WORT Local News for Monday, March 28th. On todays show, we head to the Village of Cross Plains to continue our 20-22 spring election coverage, Wisconsinites submit a petition to Congress to urge for limits on prescription price gouging, and we learn why environmental activists are celebrating a move to limit the growth of a factory farm in Kewaunee County. And in the second half, we talk with the new Artist in Residence with the city’s Sewerage District, we enter a frivolous internet debate, and two movie reviews.

This is your WORT Local News for Thursday, March 24. On todays show, we head to the northeast corner of Dane County to continue our election coverage, Republicans continue to fight the Affordable Care Act 12 years later, the Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center is getting an expansion, and in the second half, we’ll get an update on the Foxconn plant in Mount Pleasant, meet an artist who never gave up embroidery, and unveil our newest feature about beer.

This is your WORT Local News for Wednesday, March 23rd. On todays show, the grandmother of Tony Robinson hopes a little known state law will help her family find justice, two juvenile prison facilities take their final steps before closing for good, and why the U-S Supreme court tossed out Governor Tony Evers redistricting maps, and in the second half, we get the rundown on the newest federal supreme court candidate, 19-60s Madison joins the civil rights movement, and your weekly weather report.