Category Archives: Local News
Evers proposes background checks for guns
Governor Evers is calling for universal background checks for gun sales in the state. He joined a number of Democratic lawmakers to introduce a bill that would add the requirement to sales at gun show...
Aug 15, 2019 (Image: Office of the Governor)
Hortonville issues boil water advisory
The Village of Hortonville is recommending that some people boil their water, because of a large water main break. Administrator David DeTroye says the area that's affected is south of Main Street, or...
Aug 15, 2019
U.S. Venture Open raises record $5.1 mil
The largest single-day fundraiser in northeast Wisconsin got even bigger. The U.S. Venture Open brought in a record of $5.13 million Wednesday to fight poverty. The David Thiede estate helped shatter ...
Aug 14, 2019
State board denies Greenville incorporation
A state board is denying the Town of Greenville's request to become a village at least for now. The town applied for incorporation last year. Town Chair Jack Anderson says instead of trying to incorpo...
Aug 14, 2019
OnStar helps catch suspected car thief in Outagamie Co.
Technology helped Outagamie County Sheriff's deputies catch a suspected car thief yesterday morning. Lieutenant Ryan Carpenter says the owner has OnStar and the company tracked the car to the area of ...
Aug 14, 2019 (Image: Outagamie County Sheriff's Office)
Evers stops in Green Bay to fix potholes, talk grants
Governor Evers stopped in Green Bay yesterday and he helped fill some potholes in the downtown area. He worked with a crew at the corner of Adams and Crooks streets. Evers used the trip to talk about ...
Aug 14, 2019 (Image: Office of the Governor)
Wife mourns husband killed in Manawa house explosion
A woman is remembering her husband after he died in a house explosion in Manawa earlier this week. Gwinette Zielke says she left home to go to church around 7:30 in the morning last Sunday. Her husban...
Aug 14, 2019
Brown County jail faces overcrowding
The Brown County Sheriff's Department is spending thousands of dollars a month to send jail inmates to other facilities because of overcrowding. Yesterday, 66 people were in Outagamie, Oconto, Marquet...
Aug 14, 2019
State reports fewer opioid deaths in 2018
There were fewer opioid deaths in the state last year. The Department of Health Services says 838 people died in 2018, and that's the lowest total since 2015. But hospital emergency room visits for ov...
Aug 14, 2019
Hundreds show up to buy 'Hamilton' tickets
Hundreds of excited people got their hands on tickets for the first stop of "Hamilton" in Wisconsin. The musical is coming to the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center in downtown Appleton in October. Tic...
Aug 14, 2019
