Category Archives: Local
VIDEO: Electric motorcycles drive into oncoming traffic in Appleton roundabout, police say
APPLETON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Police are issuing a safety reminder after a recent traffic incident in Appleton. On Wednesday, the Appleton Police Department posted a video on Facebook showing a group of...
Jul 03, 2025 The Appleton Police Department is issuing a safety reminder after a recent traffic incident in which a group of electric motorcycles drove the wrong way into oncoming traffic in a roundabout. (Photo courtesy: APD)
Man who 'stalked and terrorized' woman in Fond du Lac County gets 15-year prison sentence
(WTAQ-WLUK) -- A man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for stalking a woman in Fond du Lac County. Authorities announced Zackery Olson's sentence in a news release Wednesday. He will spend 14 y...
Jul 03, 2025 Zackery J. Olson (Photo courtesy: Fond du Lac County Jail)
State budget includes $500K for USS Cobia restoration
MANITOWOC (WLUK) -- A provision in the latest state budget provides the final piece of funding for a Lakeshore landmark to be preserved. The 2025-27 budget signed overnight by Gov. Tony Evers includes...
Jul 03, 2025 PHOTO: Courtesy of WLUK
Driver arrested, passenger hospitalized after vehicle crashes into Two Rivers house
TWO RIVERS, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A 23-year-old man was arrested after crashing his vehicle into a house in Two Rivers. Police say they were called to the 2700 block of River Lane just after 10 p.m. Wedne...
Jul 03, 2025 Christopher Conard appears in Manitowoc County court July 3, 2025, on charges related to a crash into a house in Two Rivers. (Image courtesy Manitowoc County courts/Zoom)
Port of Green Bay expansion expected sooner, more affordable, with $20 million from state
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- The newly signed state budget includes $20 million to expand the Port of Green Bay. The project involves moving the coal piles out of downtown, but this money will allow t...
Jul 03, 2025 The WPS Pulliam Power Plant Site (Fox 11 Online)
Evers vetoes deadline to close Green Bay Correctional, but first steps remain in budget
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Both Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature say they want the aging Green Bay Correctional Institution to close. But how they accom...
Jul 03, 2025 PHOTO: Courtesy of WLUK
Developers of new Green Bay apartment complex still owe local contractors over $1 million
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Its grand opening was just this week, but already, problems have surfaced at the new mixed-income apartments in downtown Green Bay, known as The Fort at The Railyard. "We'...
Jul 03, 2025 The Fort at the Rail Yard in downtown Green Bay's Rail Yard District, January 21. 2025.
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Online auction of NFL Draft items nets nearly $34,000 for Red Cross of Northeast Wisconsin
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- An online auction of authentic memorabilia from the 2025 NFL Draft in Green Bay raised nearly $34,000 for the Northeast Wisconsin Chapter of the American Red Cross. Titlet...
Jul 03, 2025 An online auction of NFL Draft items netted nearly $34,000 for the Red Cross of Northeast Wisconsin, July 3, 2025.
PC: Fox 11 Online
Local couple opening neighborhood grocery store in old Sal's Foods building in Allouez
ALLOUEZ, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- By the end of the year, residents in Allouez will be shopping in a neighborhood grocery store once again. A couple from Door County announced they're bringing a store back. ...
Jul 03, 2025 Sal's Foods, the former "Original Austin's Grocery Store" in Allouez closed in March of 2025. The building has new owners who plan to re-open the neighborhood grocery store.
PC: Fox 11 Online
Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down the state's 176-year-old abortion ban
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- The Wisconsin Supreme Court has answered a three-year question on whether a 176-year-old abortion ban is enforceable. The liberal majority court struck down the state's abor...
Jul 02, 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court
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