Category Archives: Local
Sturgeon spearers cross halfway point toward one harvest cap on upriver lakes
(WTAQ-WLUK) -- Sturgeon spearing was a little slower on Monday after the 2025 season's opening weekend. With many spearers back to work and school, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says 6...
Feb 10, 2025 David Carnot poses with the 149.5-pound, 76.7-inch sturgeon he speared Feb. 10, 2025 on Lake Winnebago. (Photo courtesy Wisconsin DNR)
Menominee Tribal inmate pleads guilty to smuggling fentanyl, causing overdoses and death
KESHENA, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A Menominee Tribal Detention Center inmate accused of smuggling fentanyl into jail, causing three other inmates to overdose and one of them to die, plead guilty. Judge Willi...
Feb 10, 2025 Warren Grignon (Photo courtesy: Brown County Sheriff's Office)
Keshena man sentenced to over 9 years for assault on ex-wife
KESHENA, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A man was sentenced for physically assaulting his ex-wife and leaving her in a wooded area outside Keshena. John V. Miller, 43, an enrolled member of the Menominee Indian Tr...
Feb 10, 2025 John V. Miller (Wisconsin DOJ)
Green Bay RDA to review new deal for relocating downtown coal piles
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - It appears one piece is in place if a deal is still possible for C. Reiss Terminals to move the coal piles from downtown to the mouth of the Fox River. After the Brown Coun...
Feb 10, 2025 Coal piles along the Fox River in Green Bay, April 11, 2023.
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Gamblers' Teddy Bear Toss brings smiles, comfort to Green Bay's young hospital patients
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A local hockey team's fundraising event is scoring big smiles on pediatric patients. The Green Bay Gamblers held its annual Teddy Bear Toss game over the weekend. It calls...
Feb 10, 2025 The Green Bay Gamblers delivered stuffed animals to Aurora BayCare hospital in Green Bay from its Teddy Bear Toss game, February 10, 2025.
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A look inside Green Bay West and Preble High School's renovated auditoriums
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Two Green Bay high schools are showing off their newly renovated auditoriums. West and Preble High Schools received renovations thanks to a referendum in 2022. Renovations...
Feb 10, 2025 Green Bay West and Preble High Schools show off their new renovations to auditoriums thanks to a referendum in 2022.
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Former Packers assistant coach, Bears head coach Dick Jauron dies at 74
(WTAQ-WLUK) -- According to the Green Bay Packers, Dick Jauron, who served under three Green Bay head coaches as a defensive backs coach, has died. Jauron was with the Packers from 1986-1994, and repo...
Feb 10, 2025 Green Bay Packers
Green Bay to replace 3 buses using Volkswagen settlement money
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- The city of Green Bay will be getting three new buses, courtesy of fines paid by Volkswagen for cheating on emissions tests. The Wisconsin Department of Administration ann...
Feb 10, 2025 The Green Bay Metro Transit station, March 22, 2023.
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Jury selection begins for Cantu brother in Green Bay murder trial
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Jury selection started Monday morning for Gustavo Cantu in connection with a 2022 murder on the city's west side. Cantu, 42, is charged with being party to first-degree int...
Feb 10, 2025 L-R: Alejandro Cantu, Gustavo Cantu and Jacob Ventura (Photos source: Brown County Jail)
Court delays ruling on Metzig's plea withdrawal request
OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - No ruling was made Monday on Erik Metzig's request to withdraw the no contest pleas he entered for the murder of his parents. Instead, a March 19 hearing will address Metzig'...
Feb 10, 2025 Erik Metzig
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