Daily Local News – WFHB

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, October 2nd, 2025. In today's newscast, WFHB News Correspondents Luke Janke and Catherine Terwilliger took to the streets of Bloomington to ask residents about free speech issues and the assasination of Charlie Kirk. More in today's feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, Sports …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, October 1st, 2025. In today's newscast, WFHB News Correspondent Catherine Terwilliger speaks with Political Strategist Dana Black about Indiana University's dismantling of its DEI program. More in today's feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, “Tap Dancing” on Better Beware – your weekly consumer-watchdog …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, September 30th, 2025. In today's newscast, WFHB interviewed attendees of this year's Lotus Festival over the weekend. More in today's feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have Lil Bub's Lil Show – a co-production between WFHB and Lil Bub's Big Fund. Featured …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, September 29th, 2025. In today's newscast, two violent incidents occurred involving people experiencing homelessness over the weekend. WFHB News speaks with the Executive Director of Beacon Inc. Forrest Gilmore and community members about their reactions to the incident. More in today's feature report. You’ll also hear Union …

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, September 25th, 2025. In today's broadcast, WFHB News welcomes Tracey Hutchings-Goetz with Hoosier Action on the next episode of Prescription for Healthcare – a podcast collaboration between WFHB and Medicare for All Indiana. More in today's feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, your …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, September 24th, 2025. In today's newscast, WFHB News Correspondent Katrine Bruner speaks with Artistic Director Tamara Lowenthal about what Lotus Festival holds in store this year. More in today's feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, The Never Ending Battle” on Better Beware – …

You're listening to WFHB Rewind, where we bring you highlights from the week – and sometimes hidden gems you might have missed. Stay with us for a blend of thoughtful storytelling, vibrant interviews, and the unexpected moments that bring our airwaves to life. This is WFHB Rewind. Featured Segments: On Wednesday, June 18th, 2025, we …

This is a live broadcast of the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025. In today's newscast, Former Mayor of South Bend and Previous Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg gave a speech at the IU Auditorium and the Indiana Statehouse on September 18th. More in today's feature report. Also coming up in the next half …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, September 22nd, 2025. In today's newscast, WFHB News Correspondent Harley Babbitt looks into how brain drain has impacted Indiana, speaking with one of the leading experts on the issue, Professor at Ball State Dr. Michael J Hicks. More in today's feature report. You’ll also hear from Tammy …

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, September 18th, 2025. In today's newscast, we revisit an episode of Deep Dive: WFHB and Limestone Post Investigate. This episode covers Part 6 of our series on Teen Mental Health. Also coming up in the next half hour, Dason Anderson, the new executive editor of the Limestone …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, September 17th, 2025. In today's newscast, we will rebroadcast features produced by WFHB Correspondent Harley Babbitt who interned for the news department this summer. And Harley will be live in the studio in light of our Fall Fund Drive. More in today's feature report. Also coming up …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, September 16th, 2025. In today's feature report, we revisit a segment from Correspondent Ella Cummings surrounding ICE activity in Bloomington. Cummings will be live in the studio asking for your support during our Fall Fund Drive. More in today's feature report. Also coming up in the next …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, September 15th, 2025. In today's newscast, WFHB News Correspondent Max Schneider speaks with IU Professor Benjamin Robinson – who the university placed sanctions on for allegedly violating Indiana's recently passed intellectual diversity law. Robinson speaks with WFHB live in the studio in light of our Fall Fund …

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, September 11th, 2025. In today's feature report, WFHB Correspondent Katrine Bruner has a feature on the Spotted Lanternfly. More in today's feature report. That’s Brea from Exodus Refugee Immigration. The Indiana attorney general is demanding Exodus cooperate with an investigation into complaints from ICE that Exodus is …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, September 10th, 2025. In today's newscast, we revisit a report from the No Kings protest that took place in June of this year. More in today's feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, WFHB Correspondent Elyse Perry will join us live in the studio …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, September 9th, 2025. In today's newscast, WFHB Correspondent Katrine Bruner spoke with the City's Urban Forester about the risk Spotted Lanternfly insects pose and what Bloomington is doing now to limit their impact. More in today's feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, Lil …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, September 8th, 2025. In today's newscast, local writer Aaron Cohen speaks about his experiences as a 15-year-old at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, when thousands of protesters clashed with police and the National Guard. More in today's feature report. That's Reese Stephens from Bring Your …

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, September 4th, 2025. In today's newscast, WFHB Environmental Correspondent Max Jancich, speaks with Dr. Thomas Butts from Purdue University about herbicides and how farms manage weeds. More in the bottom half of our program. Also coming up in the next half hour, WFHB News covers the latest …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025. In today's newscast, WFHB News speaks with Sheriff Ruben Marté. He discusses updates on his administration and provides a progress report on his reelection campaign as Monroe County Sheriff. More from the hosts of Bring It On in today's feature report. Also coming up …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025. In today's newscast, we have coverage from yesterday's Workers Over Billionaires protest on the Monroe County Courthouse square. More in today's feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, Lil Bub's Lil Show – a co-production between WFHB and Lil Bub's Big …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, August 27th, 2025. In today's newscast, we share a segment from Bring It On! where hosts Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell talk with leaders of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center and the African American Arts Institute at IU Bloomington. More in today's feature report. Also coming up …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, August 25th, 2025. In today's newscast, Kirkwood Avenue was blocked off in downtown Bloomington for the 11th annual Pridefest. WFHB Correspondent Ella Cummings speaks with attendees and various organizations about what pride means to them. More in today's feature report. You’ll also hear Suzanne Allen with a …

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, August 21st, 2025. In today's newscast, we have Civic Conversations – a podcast collaboration between the League of Women Voters of Bloomington and Monroe County and WFHB. More in today's feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, Art Walk – where Youth Radio reporters …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, August 20th, 2025. In today's newscast, Indiana University has ordered the Palestine Solidarity Committee to cease and desist all activities while under investigation for allegedly violating student code. Correspondent Ella Cummings speaks with co-founder of the PSC Bryce Greene. More in today's feature report. Also coming up …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, August 19th, 2025. In today's newscast, WFHB's Youth Radio brings you Government.exe, a show that explains what's happening in state government. In the final edition of the series, City Council Member Sydney Zulich joins the program to discuss civic engagement. More in today's feature report. Also coming …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, August 18th, 2025. In today's newscast, WFHB Correspondent Ella Cummings spoke with National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Hooper discussed an incident on Saturday where a group of armed neo-Nazis marched through downtown Indianapolis. More in today's feature report. That's Emily Herr …

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, August 14th, 2025. In today's newscast, we have Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana. More in the bottom half of our program. Also coming up in the next half hour, Youth Radio's Government.exe, a show that explains …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, August 13th, 2025. In today’s feature report, we hear Part 3 with WFHB Environmental Correspondent Max Jancich as he speaks with Greg Olsen, Field Projects Director at the Sand County Foundation. More in today's feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, “Digital Death Traps” …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, August 12th, 2025. In today's newscast, Indiana Senate Democrats held a press conference last week denouncing the GOP push to redistrict Indiana. More in today's feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, Lil Bub's Lil Show – a co-production between WFHB and Lil Bub's …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, August 11th, 2025. In today's newscast, WFHB News speaks with Rachel Van Tyle, director of legal services for Exodus Refugee Immigration, about recent comments made by Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith on the right to due process for undocumented immigrants. More in today's feature report. That's Tamara Loewenthal, …

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, August 7th, 2025. In today's newscast, we have Government.exe, a show that explains what's happening in state government from WFHB's Youth Radio. More in today's feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have a rundown of all the latest government meetings in Bloomington …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, August 6th, 2025. In today's newscast, Vice President JD Vance is slated to travel to Indianapolis to meet with Indiana Governor Mike Braun tomorrow to discuss redistricting. WFHB Correspondent Ella Cummings has more in the bottom half of the show. Also coming up in the next half …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, August 5th, 2025. In today's newscast, the Bloomington City Council deliberated on unsafe conditions at the affordable housing development Union at Crescent. More in today's headlines. Also coming up in the next half hour, the latest edition of Lil Bub's Lil Show – a co-production between Lil …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, July 30th, 2025. In today's newscast, WFHB Arts Correspondent Cindy Beaule speaks with two organizers from Off Night Productions, a woman-led theater organization, about an upcoming play next week at the Waldron Arts Center Auditorium. More in today's feature report. Also coming up in the next half …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, July 29th, 2025. In today's newscast, WFHB News volunteers attended a press conference put on by Bloomington Mayor Kerry Thomson earlier today on housing and homelessness. More in today's feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, “Road Side Petting Zoos” on Lil Bub's Lil …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, July 28th, 2025. In today's newscast, you'll hear City Council President Hopi Stosberg speaking about the use of Camp Atterbury as an immigrant detention facility during the latest council meeting. More in today's headlines. You’ll also hear Sarah Cassavaugh from In Source, on how her own child’s …

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, July 24th, 2025. In today's newscast, WFHB News speaks with two members of Care Not Cages who are partnering up with almost a dozen organizations to urge county leadership to not move forward with constructing a new jail. More in today's feature report. Also coming up in …

This is WFHB Rewind, where we bring you highlights from the week—and sometimes hidden gems you might have missed. Stay with us for a blend of thoughtful storytelling, vibrant interviews, and the unexpected moments that bring our airwaves to life. Featured Segments: WFHB DJ and Local Live Producer Nicki Seven speaks with Brian Bassett, the …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025. In today's newscast, WFHB News Correspondent Max Schneider covers Governor Braun's dismantling of DEI, funding cuts to NPR and PBS and a rundown of recent bills passed in the Indiana Statehouse. More in today's feature report. You’ll also hear Bloomington Fire Marshal Tim Clapp …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, July 21st, 2025. In today's newscast, you will hear Jeff Linkon from Hillel, the Jewish culture center on the IU Bloomington campus. The U.S. Department of Education recently included IU in its callout of sixty universities under investigation for antisemitism. Hear more about efforts to make Bloomington …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, July 16th, 2025. In today's newscast, Paul Helmke – former CEO of Brady Center to prevent gun violence and former mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana – speaks with WFHB about gun legislation in Indiana. More in today's episode of Government.exe from WFHB's Youth Radio. That's IU baseball …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, July 15th, 2025. In today's newscast, you'll hear Michael Pezzuto, co-creator of “The Reef” house show venue. Bloomington may have a reputation as a party town, but some young people within the local music scene are living a “straight-edge” lifestyle. Learn more later in the show in …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, July 14th, 2025. In today's newscast, Cinematic Arts major Evie Mendelsohn talks about an immersive filmmaking class she took this spring, and Suzanne Faulk talks about Opportunity House, the Bloomington Thrift Store run almost entirely by volunteers.  Additionally, Local Government Meeting coverage includes the Monroe County Realtor’s Stormwater …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, July 9th, 2025. In today's newscast, WFHB News Correspondent Max Schneider provides a rundown on campus and local news over the summer. More in today's feature report. You’ll also hear from Katelyn Dunivan from University Players, a student-run theater group that saw their funding cut by 80% …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, July 7th, 2025. In today's newscast, you will hear Paul Quigley on using AI to pilot a race car. A team of Bloomington students is already doing it, and later this month they take their car to California to race against other prototypes. More later in the …

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, July 3rd, 2025. In today's newscast, we have two profiles of local people. First, WFHB Correspondent Ella Cummings profiles Barbara Restle, a 99-year-old woman who grew up in Nazi-occupied Austria. Restle draws parallels from the authoritarianism she witnessed as a child to U.S. politics today. That's coming …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025. In today's newscast, WFHB Correspondent Max Schneider speaks with Political Scientist Jeff Isaac about Indiana public colleges eliminating nearly 20 percent of their degree programs. That's coming up in today's feature report. That's Shelby VanDerMoere from the Bloomington Fire Department, on new training materials …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, July 1st, 2025. In today’s newscast, you will hear Bloomington native Taylor Minnick, a star player on the Indiana University softball team. Minnick just graduated from IU as the softball program’s all-time homerun queen. More from Minnick and head coach Shonda Stanton later in the show in …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, June 30th, 2025. In today's newscast, Gerard Pannekoek walks through the mission of the recent Granfalloon Festival. You’ll get a deep dive into the “how and why” of Granfalloon later in the show in a feature report. Also, you will hear Maggie Sullivan, watershed coordinator for Friends …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, June 25th, 2025. In today's newscast, WFHB Correspondent Max Schneider provides a rundown on campus and local news items over the summer. Also, we hear from Mohamed Sayed from the Islamic Center of Bloomington, on the need for a Muslim culture center on the Indiana University campus. …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, June 24th, 2025. In today's newscast, WFHB speaks with former staff at Futures Family Planning Clinic and Board of Health Member Dr. Stephen Pritchard about the board's decision to suspend public comment in order to develop a new policy. More in today's feature report. Also coming up …