Category Archives: Local News
Luxury hotel near Lambeau Field could be reality
Green Bay's Redevelopment Authority is giving the go-ahead to a new luxury hotel near Lambeau Field. It would at the site where the former Brett Favre Steakhouse building sits. Developer Dennis Doucet...
Jun 11, 2019
Hortonville bypass still in state budget
After several years of delays the Hortonville bypass might move forward in the state budget. The Highway 15 project is in the version that Majority Republicans on the Legislature's budget committee ap...
Jun 11, 2019 (Photo provided by the Wisconsin Legislature)
Appleton vaping ban starts today
Appleton's ban on vaping officially takes effect at noon today. The city includes the devices in its smoking ban. Public Health Officer Kurt Eggebrecht says they worked with police to send a letter to...
Jun 11, 2019 (Image from the City of Appleton)
Oshkosh considers transportation fee
The City of Oshkosh is looking at a new way to reduce the impact of special assessments on property owners. City Manager Mark Rohloff says they're working on a monthly "transportation fee". That would...
Jun 11, 2019 (Image provided by the City of Oshkosh)
Wisconsin has highest elderly fall death rate in nation
Elderly people in Wisconsin die from falls at a higher rate than any other state in the country. The CDC is reporting about 14-hundred deaths of people over the age of 65 in 2017. Steve Schroeder owns...
Jun 10, 2019
Dancing Ashwaubenon boy goes viral
A video of an Ashwaubenon boy dancing before undergoing brain surgery is going viral. Rasami Moua says her five-year-old son, Kyu San Juan, asked her to go to the Festival Foods on Green Bay's west si...
Jun 10, 2019
Rodriguez: Woman started right to vote momentum
A Republican lawmaker thinks the push by women to get the right to vote got momentum going. Representative Jesse Rodriguez of Oak Creek spoke at the Capitol today to celebrate the 100th anniversary of...
Jun 10, 2019
Clintonville could ban smoking at outdoor city events
Clintonville could have a new rule soon banning smoking at some outdoor events. City Administrator Sharon Eveland got the idea when she saw people smoking at a family-friendly activity. She says they ...
Jun 10, 2019
Wisconsin man killed in Tennessee quarry
Police say a worker from Wisconsin was killed in a Tennessee quarry. Nashville police said 22-year-old Colin Sawasky was in a ditch at Vulcan Materials Company yesterday morning. They say a front end ...
Jun 10, 2019
Local lawmakers debate road funding
Two local lawmakers aren't on the same page on how to pay for road projects in the state. Democratic Assembly Minority Leader Gordon Hintz of Oshkosh thinks raising the gas tax is a better way to make...
Jun 10, 2019
