Category Archives: Local
DNR Officials Urge Against Burning This Weekend
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) -- It's another weekend where you ought to avoid burning. High winds and dry foliage are coming yet again to create very high fire danger across much of Wisconsin. "Going into thi...
Apr 23, 2021 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters / CC
Some School Districts Dropping Masking Requirements
COLEMAN, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Masking will no longer be a requirement at some Northeast Wisconsin schools. This comes after the Wisconsin Supreme Court voted to overturn the statewide mandate. The Coleman...
Apr 23, 2021 Jill Carlson (jillcarlson.org) / CC
Grants Still Available to Appleton Business Owners for Exterior Improvements
APPLETON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Grant money is still available to Appleton business owners to make exterior improvements. More than $65,000 remains available for the citywide Appleton Redevelopment Author...
Apr 23, 2021
Winnebago County Sheriff's Office Teams With 'Project Lifesaver'
OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ) - The Winnebago County Sheriff's Office has joined a group of law enforcement agencies that help find lost dementia patients quicker. In 2017, the Oshkosh Police department launched...
Apr 23, 2021 PHOTO: Courtesy of WLUK
Early Morning Fire Damages Multiple Family Home In Green Bay
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - The Green Bay Metro Fire Department reporting a fire that caused $30,000 in damage to a three-family home. The call went out just before 2:30 a.m. Friday in the 300 block of N. ...
Apr 23, 2021 GBMFD
Communities Primed For 'No Mow May'
APPLETON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - You may see fewer lawn mowers in Appleton and Oshkosh this May. Residents can grow their grass out for the month without being fined as part of "No Mow May." Typically, gras...
Apr 23, 2021 PHOTO: Courtesy of WLUK
Peshtigo River Is The Latest Scene For Sturgeon Spawning
PESHTIGO, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - The spawning run is on for sturgeon in the rivers and streams flowing into the waters of Green Bay, and a new vantage point over the Peshtigo River gives spectators a never-...
Apr 23, 2021 PHOTO: Courtesy of WLUK
A Year Ago: Gas Prices Drop to the Lowest Point in a Generation
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) -- It's hard to imagine given what we've been paying the last few weeks, but a year ago gas prices were the lowest they've been in a generation. "The average price per gallon of g...
Apr 22, 2021 Prices at a Green Bay gas station on April 22nd, 2020 (WTAQ/Rob Sussman)
WTAQ's Matt Z Gets the BolaWrap Treatment in Grand Chute
GRAND CHUTE, WI (WTAQ) -- Matt Z of WTAQ's 'The Morning News with Matt and Earl' decided to see for himself how the Grand Chute Police Department's non-lethal BolaWrap restraining device works on Thur...
Apr 22, 2021
Johnson Questions Vaccine Necessity
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- Public health officials urge everyone who's eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine to get one, so we can achieve herd immunity. But Wisconsin's senior U-S Senator questions whether ...
Apr 22, 2021 US Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
