Category Archives: Local
GBAPS school board braces for budget cuts amid federal funding freeze, state aid shortfall
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- The Green Bay Area Public School District is already thinking about going to referendum. This comes as officials say the new biennial state budget does not address the dis...
Jul 15, 2025 Green Bay Area Public School District building. (IMAGE: Courtesy of Fox 11 WLUK)
Man convicted in fatal Oconto County crash admits to heroin use
OCONTO, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Zackery Wimber, who admitted to using heroin shortly before a fatal traffic crash, was convicted Tuesday. Wimber, 31, pleaded no contest to four counts, including homicide by ...
Jul 15, 2025 Zackery Wimber (Photo courtesy Oconto County Sheriff's Office)
Taycheedah man challenges AI-generated child porn charges, cites First Amendment rights
FOND DU LAC, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - A man charged with possessing virtual child pornography is challenging the counts, arguing the First Amendment protects the material as free speech since it "is not intri...
Jul 15, 2025 Meillo Schneider (Fond du Lac Co. Jail)
Plan to redevelop former Georgia-Pacific mill to be presented to Green Bay City Council
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - A shared vision to redevelop the former Georgia-Pacific Day Street paper mill will be presented to the City Council Tuesday night. Georgia-Pacific closed the mill in 2023 a...
Jul 14, 2025 The former Georgia Pacific mill site at 500 Day Street in Green Bay on April 15, 2025.
PC: Fox 11 Online
Man shot during road rage incident in Grand Chute, police say; suspect in custody
GRAND CHUTE, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A man is in custody following a shooting in Grand Chute over the weekend that allegedly stemmed from a road rage incident. Around 4:30 p.m. Sunday, officers received a c...
Jul 14, 2025
Green Bay school district seeking employees for next year; hosting walk-up hiring event
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- The Green Bay Area Public School District is still in search of employees for next school year. A walk-up career fair is scheduled for Wednesday from 3-6 p.m. at the GBAPS...
Jul 14, 2025 GBAPSD
Jury selection begins for Tony Haase's trial in 1992 Waupaca County double murder case
WAUPACA, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Jury selection started Monday for Tony Haase, who is accused of the 1992 murders of Tanna Togstad and Timothy Mumbrue. Jury selection is taking place at Waupaca Middle School...
Jul 14, 2025
Lawmakers push for the monarch to become Wisconsin's state butterfly
TOWN OF CENTER, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Northeast Wisconsin lawmakers wants to make the endangered Monarch butterfly the state butterfly. Rep. Paul Tittl of Manitowoc and Senator Rachael Cabral-Guevara of A...
Jul 14, 2025 A monarch butterfly feeds on flowers at Barkhausen Waterfowl Preserve in Suamico Sept. 26, 2017.
PC: Fox 11 Online
Fight at Menominee Park preceded fatal stabbing in Oshkosh, prosecutors say
OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A fight at Oshkosh's Menominee Park -- including one man spraying bear mace at the crowd -- led to a second altercation and fatal stabbing, according to a criminal complaint...
Jul 14, 2025 Daunte Riley (Photo courtesy Winnebago County Sheriff's Office)
Hospital shuttle van taken in Green Bay carjacking found in Chicago
(WTAQ-WLUK) -- The hospital shuttle van stolen in a carjacking in Green Bay has been found. Green Bay police announced Monday that the van was found last Thursday in Chicago. That was one day after th...
Jul 14, 2025 Green Bay police say Jerilyn Soto of Keshena robbed a Prevea Health van at knifepoint at St. Mary's Hospital, July 8, 2025. (Photos courtesy of Green Bay Police)
