Maria Lisignoli
Evening News Anchor/Reporter
Madison, Wisconsin
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Maria Lisignoli is an anchor/reporter for NBC15 News at 5 and 10 p.m. weekdays
Maria comes to Madison from Des Moines, Iowa where she worked at the NBC affiliate WHO 13 for more than 3 years. There, she worked as an anchor and multi-media journalist. Maria graduated from Iowa State University with her bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Born and raised in Chanhassen Minnesota, Maria is no stranger to Midwest winters and summers on the lakes. When she is off the clock, Maria loves biking, hiking, thrift shopping, and watching movies with her pet bearded dragon named George.
If you have a story idea or just want to say hello, connect with Maria on Facebook (@MariaLisignoliNews), Twitter (@MariaLisignoli), Instagram (@marialisignoli) or at Maria.Lisignoli@nbc15.com.
Updated: Mar. 8, 2023 at 9:50 PM CST
|By Maria Lisignoli
Film enthusiasts across the state got a sneak peak of some of the movies that will be shown in this year’s Wisconsin Film Festival.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2023 at 10:27 PM CST
|By Maria Lisignoli
Madison residents are raising the alarm about proposed developments of affordable housing on part of the former Oscar Mayer plant.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 at 10:46 PM CST
|By Maria Lisignoli
Most of us have too much stuff. As we get older our stuff tends to grow as well and it’s hard to declutter, especially if it has been handed down to us from loved ones. So why do we accumulate so much stuff and why is it so hard to let things go and get organized?
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 10:43 PM CST
|By Maria Lisignoli
You now have an opportunity to weigh in on issues around housing in Dane County, and have a chance to win a $25 gift card.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2023 at 8:04 PM CST
|By Maria Lisignoli
After operating on Madison’s north side for almost 100 years, the Oscar Mayer plant closed its doors for good in 2017. Now, for one of the first times since its closure, developers are breaking ground on the Oscar Mayer campus to create affordable housing.
“This shows that people care”: Community comes together for 27th annual Share Your Holidays campaign
Updated: Dec. 15, 2022 at 10:46 PM CST
|By Maria Lisignoli
In the 27th year of NBC15′s Share Your Holidays campaign to benefit Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin, the community came together.
Updated: Dec. 6, 2022 at 6:09 PM CST
|By Maria Lisignoli
America’s Game has come to Madison. Tuesday, an audience will play Wheel of Fortune Live at the Overture Center for the Arts.
Updated: Dec. 2, 2022 at 2:14 PM CST
|By Maria Lisignoli
Several area hotels are getting renovations to prepare for more permanent residents. Turning hotels into housing is one way the city of Madison is adding desperately needed apartments for the growing population.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2022 at 10:34 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
The average renter in Dane County is paying 300 dollars more per month in 2022 than in 2010, according to the Dane County Housing Advisory Committee. With the price of rent outpacing wage increases, more and more people in Dane County are seeking affordable housing.
Updated: Oct. 15, 2022 at 2:49 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
After months of planning, and two weeks of renovations the volunteers and designers were able to unveil the finished makeover to staff at the Common Threads Family Resource Center School Program. The school program serves students who are autistic or neurodivergent.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2022 at 8:51 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
With only days left until the final reveal, volunteers were hard at work on the interior makeover of the Common Threads School Program.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2022 at 10:22 AM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
After months of planning, designers and volunteers began renovations at Common Threads Family Resource Center School Program.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2022 at 8:45 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
August wrapped up the prime season for sales. According to the Wisconsin Realtors Association, between May and August, 43% of homes are sold in a typical year. However, this year, home sales were down during this peak period.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2022 at 10:28 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli and Juliana Tornabene
The Republican candidate for Dane County sheriff has filed a lawsuit against the office he is hoping to lead.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2022 at 8:52 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
Wisconsin’s love of beer is unmatched, but the beer many people know, and love is changing because of the changing climate.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2022 at 8:57 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
Hamilton is now in it’s final week of performances at the Overture Center in Madison. For one cast member, coming to Wisconsin was a feeling of coming home.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2022 at 8:41 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
New home construction in Wisconsin has decreased this year compared to last.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2022 at 10:23 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
The American dream of owning a home, feels like just a dream these days. With the average price of a home in Wisconsin at more than $275,000 and more than $389,000 in Dane County, according to Wisconsin Realtors Association, more people are turning to renting.NBC15 is looking into how the increase in renters is driving up cost. With the growing population in Dane County, developers are struggling to keep up with the demand for multi-family housing.
Updated: May. 24, 2022 at 9:26 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
Common Thread’s Family Resource Center was shocked to hear their school program was chosen for the free transformation.
Updated: May. 9, 2022 at 9:50 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
The population of Dane County is expected to grow significantly in the next 30 years. The Capital Area Regional Planning Commission has put together a regional development framework to help the infrastructure grow with the population.
Updated: Apr. 29, 2022 at 10:45 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
Right now, if you’re looking to buy a home you know the housing market in Wisconsin is bad for buyers and great for sellers.
Updated: Mar. 15, 2022 at 5:12 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
In honor of International Women’s Day March 8, BRAVA Magazine featured seven women in the Madison-area who have been empowering young girls.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2022 at 8:27 PM CST
|By Maria Lisignoli
NBC15′s Maria Lisignoli caught up with the team leader of Cheering for a Cure, Morgan Bohrer, to talk about her inspiration for participating in this campaign.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2022 at 8:39 PM CST
|By Maria Lisignoli
Growing research shows when a child’s basic needs are met, including the need for diapers, there are long term improvements in health and economic outcomes in adulthood.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2022 at 8:06 PM CST
|By Maria Lisignoli
With nearly one day left to donate to the NBC15 Diaper Drive, we check in with the generous businesses that have signed on as diaper drop off points. One business, Icki Sticki, in Verona and Mt. Horeb, is participating in the second year of the drive.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2022 at 6:26 PM CST
|By Maria Lisignoli
It is not uncommon for figure skaters to have the same coaches for more than a decade, even at the local level. The Madison Figure Skating Club highlights the importance of a strong bond between coach and skater, both on and off the ice.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2022 at 5:18 PM CST
|By Maria Lisignoli
A survey recently from Glassdoor showed that women are 19 percent less likely to ask for a raise than men.
Updated: Dec. 25, 2021 at 9:14 PM CST
|By Gillian Rawling and Maria Lisignoli
Compared to the beginning of the pandemic, online shopping has increased by 19% said the Better Business Bureau. With more holiday shoppers online, comes more online returns.
Updated: Dec. 19, 2021 at 11:18 PM CST
|By Maria Lisignoli
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over, that’s the message from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation this holiday.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2021 at 7:50 PM CST
|By Maria Lisignoli
It has been one week since new laws went into effect aiming to prevent backlogs of unprocessed sexual assault kits and provide victims a tracking system where victims can see the progress of the kits.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2021 at 6:02 PM CST
|By Maria Lisignoli
The Madison Police Department will now send automated text messages to people who call 911 or are victims of crimes.
Updated: Nov. 26, 2021 at 7:00 PM CST
|By Maria Lisignoli
With the buying power of Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin, mobile food pantries like one in Beloit are able to provide weeks’ worth of food to people experiencing food insecurity.
Updated: Nov. 25, 2021 at 6:05 PM CST
|By Maria Lisignoli
The Holiday Light Show at the Janesville Rotary Botanical Gardens is in its 25th year. It begins Friday November 26th, but volunteers take months to get the gardens ready.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2021 at 9:51 PM CST
|By Maria Lisignoli
Wisconsin’s gun deer season is not until the end of the month, but the Department of Natural Resources wants you to start thinking about donating your deer to those in need.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2021 at 9:33 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
A new study at UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Cade is one of 100 local children participating in a study aimed at getting K-12 students who have medical complexities back to in-person school safely.
Updated: Oct. 18, 2021 at 5:24 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
Sunday, people of faith gathered to protest the plan to base F-35 military jets at the Air National Guard base at Madison’s Truax Field.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2021 at 4:29 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
UW Health confirms most of its work force complied with the COVID-19 vaccination requirement.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2021 at 10:10 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
With a surge in the Delta variant, there is also a surge in the level of anxiety over COVID-19.
Updated: Sep. 29, 2021 at 10:35 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
Nationally, one in seven men and one in four women have been victims of severe physical violence by an intimate partner. This is according to the Domestic Abuse Intervention Services or DAIS. Madison resident Sherry Waller was one of them.
Updated: Sep. 10, 2021 at 7:17 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
Behind each of these numbers is a name, and the Muslim community in Madison is making moves to eliminate hate.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2021 at 8:19 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
As the summer of 2021 starts slipping away and restrictions are easing -- Wisconsinites are once again catching the travel bug. Relaxing beaches, fancy hotels, all-inclusive resorts. These are some of the typical vacation options. But when covid-19 disrupted normalcy, it also changed the way many people travel, with some choosing experiences over amenities.
Updated: Jul. 13, 2021 at 8:53 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
After more than a year of working from home, many people are getting ready to head back to the office. That is anxiety inducing on its own, but especially for the pets who now have to spend their days alone, many of them for the first time.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2021 at 8:50 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
Just in the last week the state saw around 80 children infected with an influenza like illness.
Updated: May. 10, 2021 at 9:51 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
It has been more than a year since the Overture Center closed their curtains due to the pandemic. But this evening they shined a spotlight on this season’s fall and winter shows.
Updated: Apr. 22, 2021 at 10:23 PM CDT
|By Maria Lisignoli
As the pandemic continues into its second spring, local garden centers prepare for another season of blooming sales.
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