Category Archives: Local News
Local schools get state report cards
The state's report cards are out for every school district, and nearly all Fox Valley schools exceed expectations. The Department of Public Instruction bases the grades on a number of factors, includi...
Nov 13, 2018
Fox Cities Reads book focuses on homelessness
A book that follows eight families in the Milwaukee area, and their struggle with housing, is the latest pick for the annual Fox Cities Reads program. "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City...
Nov 13, 2018
DOT highlights emergency crews along highways
The DOT helped honor first responders during an event this morning in the Green Bay area. Spokesman Mark Kantola says they put themselves in harm's way, while they're helping people at crash scenes. K...
Nov 13, 2018
F.C. police get K-9 unit
There's now a police dog on the roads in Fox Crossing. It's the first time the department has had a K-9 unit in at least 15 years. Officer Dan Wiechman says Hans is a two-year-old Dutch Shepard. He sa...
Nov 13, 2018
Baraboo picture taker says students were waving
A parent who took a photo of about 60 Baraboo high school students giving what looks like a Nazi salute says he simply asked them to wave goodbye to their parents. Pete Gust says he takes the blame fo...
Nov 13, 2018
Governor's wife talk about future
Gov. Walker hasn't been seen publicly since before the November 6 election after a narrow loss to state superintendent of schools Tony Evers. His wife first lady Tonette Walker was in Kimberly yesterd...
Nov 13, 2018
Burch ordered to pay restitution to victim's family
A convicted killer will have to pay restitution to family members of a murdered Ledgeview woman. 31-year-old Nicole VanderHeyden was killed in May of 2016 after she left a bar in Green Bay. A jury fou...
Nov 12, 2018
G.B. murder trial delayed again
The murder trial for a 31-year-old man accused of killing a friend over drugs is on hold again. Antwon Powell is charged with murdering 32-year-old David Shorter in 2015. Powell's been in court 24 tim...
Nov 12, 2018
Speaker Robin Vos voted into another term
The top leader in the Assembly will be back in his same job. Majority Republicans unanimously supported Speaker Robin Vos for another term yesterday. Vos says he'll work with Governor-elect Tony Evers...
Nov 12, 2018
Evers won't resign as school leader until Jan. 7
Governor-elect Tony Evers will continue on as the state superintendent of schools until he's sworn in as governor on January 7th. That gives Evers the power to appoint his replacement. If he would res...
Nov 12, 2018
