Category Archives: Local
Highway Chase Leads To A Pair Of Arrests
FOND DU LAC COUNTY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Two men were arrested following an overnight police chase on Interstate 41. The Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office says just before 12:30 this morning, a deputy t...
Apr 08, 2021 PHOTO: Courtesy of WLUK
Multi-Million Dollar Plan To Improve Brown County Libraries
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - A $38 million plan to improve Brown County's libraries received initial approval Wednesday evening. $20 million of that is coming from the county sales tax that was approve...
Apr 08, 2021 PHOTO: Courtesy of WLUK
Grand Chute PD Welcomes Its Newest Crime Fighting Tool
GRAND CHUTE, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Grand Chute Police are training with a new device, to help make arrests without using force. It's called a BolaWrap. "The best way to describe the BolaWrap itself is a de...
Apr 08, 2021 PHOTO: Courtesy of WLUK
Fox Valley St Vincent De Paul Takes On Hunger
NEENAH, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - For the past 100 years, St. Vincent De Paul has served the Neenah Menasha area in more ways than one. Now the store is helping with food insecurity. As a frequent St. Vincent ...
Apr 08, 2021 PHOTO: Courtesy of WLUK
Wrightstown School Makeover Is Underway
WRIGHTSTOWN, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Work is beginning at Wrightstown Community School District to renovate and make additions to its elementary and middle schools. A groundbreaking ceremony was held Wednesd...
Apr 08, 2021 PHOTO: Courtesy of WLUK
Sturgeon Spawn Set to Start Soon
SHIOCTON, WI (WTAQ) -- The sturgeon will begin spawning on the Lake Winnebago system...soon. There's no way to tell precisely when the sturgeon will begin swimming upstream to spawn. It happens when t...
Apr 07, 2021 Sturgeon during a spawn (File Photo)
Separating Fact From Fiction on Firearms Background Checks in Wisconsin
NEW FRANKEN, WI (WTAQ) -- Democrats in Madison are backing a number of gun control measures in response to shootings in Atlanta and Colorado. Among those are calls for expanded background checks. Milw...
Apr 07, 2021
Bomb Squad Detonates Multiple Explosives in Marinette County
MARINETTE COUNTY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Explosive devices had to be detonated twice this week in Marinette County. Sheriff Jerry Sauve says the Brown-Outagamie County Bomb Squad was called to detonate dan...
Apr 07, 2021 A Marinette County Sheriff's squad vehicle. (IMAGE: Courtesy of Fox 11 WLUK)
Pair Accused of Killing Kaukauna Man Allegedly Tried to Stage Robbery
APPLETON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Two people went a Kaukauna home to kill a man, and then tried to make it look like a robbery, according to a criminal complaint. Dontae Payne, 26, and Tanya Stammer, 29, we...
Apr 07, 2021 Dontae Payne, left, and Tanya Stammer (Photos courtesy Outagamie County Jail)
Evers Highlights Plan to Replace Cofrin Library During UW-Green Bay Campus Stop
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - Governor Tony Evers pushed his $96.3 million project proposal to replace the Cofrin Library on the UW-Green Bay campus during a visit on Wednesday. "The UW Campuses are the econ...
Apr 07, 2021 Cofrin Library on the UW-Green Bay campus, April 7, 2021. (PHOTO/WTAQ News)
