Category Archives: Local
Missing Illinois man believed to be in Green Bay area
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Authorities are searching for a missing Illinois man believed to be in the Green Bay area. Early Tuesday morning, 87-year-old Earnest H. Moore told his son he was in Green...
Nov 18, 2015
Public hearing Wednesday on ending state's nuclear moratorium
MADISON, WI (WTAQ) – A public hearing was to begin Wednesday morning on another effort to end Wisconsin’s three-decade-old moratorium on building nuclear power plants. The Assembly Energy ...
Nov 18, 2015
Study: Wisconsin has nation's biggest jump in fixed electric rates
MADISON, WI (WTAQ) – Wisconsin has the nation’s largest increases in fixed electric charges since the start of last year. That’s according to a study by Renew Wisconsin. It says cust...
Nov 18, 2015
UPDATE: Wind advisory for Leo Frigo Bridge has expired
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – The Wisconsin Department of Transportation northeast region office in Green Bay says a wind advisory for the Leo Frigo Bridge (I-43) expired at 1:48 p.m. Motorists are adv...
Nov 18, 2015
FORBIDDEN FRUIT: Ex-Green Bay prison worker convicted of inmate sex, drugs
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A former Green Bay Correctional Institution worker has pled no contest to having sex with an inmate and trying to deliver drugs to another prisoner. Online court records i...
Nov 17, 2015
Areas of Brown County parks closed due to gun deer hunting
BROWN COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) – Non-hunters will not be allowed in some parts of several Brown County parks during the upcoming gun deer hunting season. From the Brown County parks department, there a...
Nov 17, 2015
Oshkosh business owner charged with arson
OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ) – Arson charges have been filed against a man who recently increased his insurance coverage and tried to collect on it in a fire that destroyed an Oshkosh building. Online cou...
Nov 17, 2015
Oshkosh Corp. gets $11 million contract to rebuild war-worn vehicles
OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ) – About 100 of the U.S. Army’s heaviest trucks will get a new lease on life, thanks to the Oshkosh Corporation. The state’s famous maker of military vehicles will ...
Nov 17, 2015
Green Bay is set to show its support for Paris
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – An opportunity to show support for the victims of the Paris terrorist attack, and all the people of France, is coming this week. For many years France Savant, a Green Bay ...
Nov 17, 2015
Group: No new Syrian refugees have resettled in Wisconsin
APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) – A group that helps refugees resettle in Wisconsin says it has not helped any newcomers from Syria. Officials say about 2,000 Syrians were among 70,000 refugees who came int...
Nov 17, 2015
