Category Archives: Local
Mary Beth Nienhaus Activity Center in Appleton now open, offering 300 unique activities
APPLETON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Pool, pickleball, table tennis and more, all available for seniors at the new Mary Beth Nienhaus Activity Center in Appleton. The center, located at 3000 E. College Avenue,...
Jun 04, 2025 A look inside the new Mary Beth Nienhaus Activity Center in Appleton. May 28, 2025.
PC: Fox 11 Online
Plan to redevelop Green Bay's Joannes Aquatic Center increases in price
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- The price of a three-phase plan to redevelop the Joannes Aquatic Center has increased from $9.45 million to $11.4 million, with city staff recommending the $2.2 million fi...
Jun 04, 2025 PHOTO: Courtesy of Green Bay Parks & Rec
Psychiatric report completed for man's insanity plea in father's shooting death
APPLETON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - A psychiatric report has been completed on if there's a basis for Gregory Juedes to proceed with the so-called insanity defense for allegedly shooting his father 15 times, k...
Jun 04, 2025 Gregory Juedes appears in court Jan. 2, 2025, on charges he killed his father, Daniel. (Image courtesy Outagamie County courts/Pexip)
Bellevue plans to upgrade voter tabulator machines by 2026 to enhance election security
BELLEVUE, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- It's only June, but the village of Bellevue is already preparing for the 2026 elections. Last week, the village board accepted a resolution supporting the purchase of new v...
Jun 04, 2025 It's only June, but the village of Bellevue is already preparing for the 2026 elections. Last week, the village board accepted a resolution supporting the purchase of new voter tabulator machines. June 3, 2025.
PC: Fox 11 Online
Menasha police alert residents to scam texts threatening license suspension
MENASHA, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Menasha police are warning residents about a scam text message circulating in the community. The message falsely claims that your driver's license or vehicle registration is...
Jun 04, 2025
Motorcyclist dies in Waupaca County after entering ditch, striking trees
TOWNSHIP OF WAUPACA, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A man was killed Tuesday in a motorcycle crash in Waupaca County. Shortly after 1:45 p.m., the sheriff's office was informed a motorcyclist had crashed near Coun...
Jun 04, 2025 A Waupaca County Sheriff's Office squad vehicle (IMAGE: Courtesy of Fox 11 WLUK)
16 apply to serve on Green Bay school board after member's resignation
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Sixteen people have applied for an open seat on the Green Bay school board. The applicants are vying to replace former board member Kou Lee, who resigned May 8 amid questi...
Jun 04, 2025 IMAGE: Courtesy Green Bay Area Public School District.
Prison inmate found guilty of hate crime in murder of cellmate
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A Green Bay Correctional Institution inmate was convicted Wednesday of a hate crime in the killing of his cellmate. A jury found Jackson Vogel, 25, guilty of first-degree ...
Jun 04, 2025 Jackson Vogel is led out of a Brown County courtroom June 4, 2025, after his conviction in the hate crime murder of his Green Bay Correctional Institution cellmate, Micah Laureano.
PC: Fox 11 Online
'Tentative agreement' being written to move Green Bay coal piles, with final vote Thursday
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- After sitting along the Fox River in downtown Green Bay for the past 125 years, there is a tentative agreement in place to move the coal piles about two miles north to the...
Jun 04, 2025 PHOTO: Courtesy of WLUK
Brillion man sentenced to prison for attempting to meet 13-year-old girl for sex
CHILTON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Jesse Pool was sentenced Tuesday to ten years in prison for trying to meet a 13-year-old girl for sex. Pool, 44, was previously convicted of using a computer to facilitate a ...
Jun 03, 2025 Jesse Pool (Calumet Co. Jail)
