Category Archives: Local
UW-Oshkosh Brainstorming Ideas to Help Grow Fox Cities Branch Campus in Menasha
MENASHA, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- More than three months after emphasizing its commitment to the Fox Cities campus, UW-Oshkosh is looking at ways to increase sustainability at the branch location in Menasha....
Feb 22, 2024 PC: Fox 11 Online
Give Big Green Bay Breaks Records
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) -- Year seven of Give Big Green Bay is one for the record books. During the 24-hour fundraising event, over $3.04 million was raised for 50 area nonprofits. This is the most raise...
Feb 22, 2024
Trial Put on Hold for Grand Chute Town Supervisor Accused of Private Interest Violation
APPLETON (WLUK) - Next week's scheduled trial for a Grand Chute supervisor charged with allegedly having his company bid on a town contract while he was in office has been put on hold by the Court of ...
Feb 22, 2024 Grand Chute Town Hall.
PC: Fox 11 Online
Kaukauna Farmers Market Moves to Wednesdays
KAUKAUNA, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- The City of Kaukauna is moving its Farmers Market from Saturdays to Wednesdays for the 2024 season. City leaders say the move comes as a way to avoid scheduling conflict wi...
Feb 22, 2024 Crates of fresh produce from SLO Farmers Co-op, February 23, 2022.
PC: Fox 11 Online
Five Sturgeon Speared on Lake Winnebago Thursday as Season Nears its End
(WTAQ-WLUK) - Only five sturgeon were speared Thursday - all on Lake Winnebago - as the season lumbers towards its close on Sunday. The five sturgeon harvested on Lake Winnebago bring the total there ...
Feb 22, 2024 Rick Mattes with his 80.4-pound, 70-inch, F1 lake sturgeon. (Photo courtesy: Wisconsin DNR)
Kitchen Fire at Velp Avenue Restaurant Causes $60,000 in Damage
VILLAGE OF HOWARD, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A restaurant in Howard sustained more than $60,000 damage after a kitchen fire Thursday. At 9:52 a.m., Howard Fire Rescue responded to Symba's Pub & Grub, loca...
Feb 22, 2024 Crews responded to Symba's Pub & Grub, located at 2334 Velp Avenue, for a reported structure fire, Feb. 22, 2024. (Photo courtesy: Howard Fire Rescue)
Mother of Missing Two Rivers Boy Held on Suspicion of Child Neglect
MANITOWOC COUNTY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Katrina Baur, identified by relatives as the mother of Elijah Vue, a boy missing from Two Rivers, could be in court as soon as Friday on requested charges of being ...
Feb 22, 2024
Former Outagamie County HR Director Held on Federal Child Porn Charges
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Former Outagamie County Human Resources Director Adam Westbrook made an initial appearance in federal court Thursday, but he did not enter a plea. Westbrook faces a federal c...
Feb 22, 2024 Adam Westbrook (Photo courtesy Sauk County Jail)
CESA 6 Building the Future for Students' Career Technical Education
OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- February is Career Technical Education Month. "While it's recognized in February, it truly is that daily commitment and the answer to the nations projected deficit of 6.5 mi...
Feb 22, 2024 Youth Apprenticeship Program (PC: CESA6)
Man Convicted of Trying to Hire Fellow Brown County Jail Inmate to Kill Girlfriend
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Oudy Weber was convicted Thursday of trying to hire another jail inmate to kill his girlfriend. Weber, 29, pleaded no contest to solicitation of first-degree intentional h...
Feb 22, 2024 Oudy Weber (Photo source: Brown County Jail)
