Category Archives: Local News

Despite bipartisan support, Assembly Republicans refused to take up what's known as the dark store loophole bill yesterday. The proposal would block big-box retailers from arguing that their stores sh...

A book about refugees and the largest shipwreck in history is the choice for the Fox Cities Reads program this year. "Salt to the Sea" focuses on four fictional people on the Wilhelm Gustloff toward t...

There's a new owner of a former plant in Menasha. C. Coakley Relocation Systems is buying the former Graphic Packaging facility on Washington Street. Owner Christopher Coakley says they're a residenti...

Almost 26 years after a woman got a parking ticket in Appleton, she stopped at City Hall to pay it yesterday. She told workers that she found the 35-cent ticket for an expired meter in her basement. C...

More people flew in or out of Appleton International Airport last month than any other January on record. There were nearly 49,000 passengers and that's 19 percent more than a year ago. It's also the ...

An Appleton East High School teacher resigned in the wake of last month's incident in the weight room. Police say the 48-year-old man got into an argument with a student, during a workout on January 2...

An attorney from Madison is one of three candidates running in the state Supreme Court primary next Tuesday. Tim Burns says he grew up with a middle-class background. He says the middle class has been...

Authorities are urging parents to talk to their teenagers about distracted driving after a crash involving five high school students. A 14-year-old girl is in critical condition. Sergeant Nathan Borma...

A national group ranked UW-Oshkosh as the safest college campus in the state and the 38th safest in the country. The Council For Home Safety and Security looked at schools with 10,000 students or more...

The sturgeon spearing season on the upriver lakes is over. DNR fisheries biologist Ryan Koenigs says they reached the cap for adult females this afternoon. Spearers got nearly 300 fish from the uprive...