Category Archives: Local
NWTC Lands $579K Grant to Launch Welding Events, Boosting Shipbuilding Workforce
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- To address an urgent shipbuilder shortage, NWTC is receiving a nearly $600,000 federal grant. The Department of Navy's (DoN) Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathema...
May 22, 2024 Welding (Photo courtesy of NWTC)
Claude Allouez Bridge in De Pere to Close for Memorial Day Parade
DE PERE, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A bridge in De Pere will be closed for a three-hour stretch Monday. According to the De Pere Police Department, the Claude Allouez Bridge is scheduled to be closed from 9 a....
May 22, 2024 Claude Allouez Bridge over the Fox River in De Pere, seen Sept. 17, 2018. (PHOTO: Courtesy of Fox 11 WLUK)
Marinette County Continues to Weigh Options on Future of UW-Green Bay Branch Campus
MARINETTE, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- While the future of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Marinette campus is in limbo, Marinette County is still exploring what's possible. The county, which owns the cam...
May 22, 2024 UW-Green Bay Marinette Campus.
PC: Fox 11 Online
Neenah Secures Riverside Park for Fox Valley Pride 2024
NEENAH, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- The city of Neenah and organizers of the Fox Valley Pride 2024 festival have agreed on a location. The festival will be held at Riverside Park in Neenah on June 22 from 1 p.m...
May 22, 2024 The city of Green Bay raised the Progress Pride flag at city hall in recognition of June as LGBTQ+ Pride Month, June 7, 2022.
PC: Fox 11 Online
Man's Appeal on 1989 Kidnapping, Murder Conviction Denied Despite New Evidence
OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - A man serving a life prison term for murder had his latest appeal denied Wednesday. Mark Price is serving a life sentence for the 1989 kidnapping and murder of Michael Fitzgi...
May 22, 2024 Mark Price (Photo source: Wisconsin Dept. of Corrections)
'Substantial Battery Incident' at Oshkosh Treatment Center for Prison Inmates Injures Man
OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- One person was injured in what police called a "substantial battery incident" at an Oshkosh treatment center for state prison residents. Around 2:50 p.m. Tuesday, officers w...
May 22, 2024
Power Outage Impacts WTAQ, Midwest Communications Stations
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) -- Midwest Communications radio stations in Northeast Wisconsin were off-air Wednesday morning due to a power outage caused by powerful storms that moved through the area on Tuesd...
May 22, 2024
Strong Storms Slam Northeast Wisconsin
(WTAQ-WLUK) -- Strong storms moved through the area on Tuesday evening, part of a devastating chain of storms that crossed a huge swath of the Midwest. The storms brought heavy rain, gusty winds and f...
May 21, 2024
Governor Evers Says Prison System Needs Reform; Not Just Green Bay Prison
ALLOUEZ, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Governor Evers says a decision on the future of Green Bay Correctional Institution needs to be part of criminal justice reform across the state and not an individual decision...
May 21, 2024 Green Bay Correctional Institution (Fox 11 Online)
Spring Planting Early at Honeymoon Acres Greenhouse in New Holstein
NEW HOLSTEIN, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- With Memorial Day weekend just around the corner, many people are looking to get outside and into the garden. The spring planting season for flowers and vegetables is u...
May 21, 2024 Honeymoon Acres Greenhouse plants for sale in New Holstein, May 21, 2024.
PC: Fox 11 Online
