Category Archives: Local News

An audit recommends that campuses in the UW System increase their oversight and monitoring of relations between the schools and their fundraising foundations. The Legislative Audit Bureau's report com...

The Paper Valley Hotel in downtown Appleton won't be affiliated with Radisson anymore. The owner, Inner Circle Investments, announced a deal to change to a Hotel RL, under the Red Lion Hotel brand. Th...

DNA evidence was an important factor for two of the jurors in George Burch's trial. Ashley Hale and Rachel Hillery say that was especially the case because the murder weapon had DNA of both Nicole Van...

A nun living in Oshkosh is celebrating her 105th birthday today. Sister Mary Urban was born in Bavaria, Germany in 1913. Spokeswoman for the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother Emily Anderson says Sister ...

Today is the last day on the job for the leader of the Appleton fire department. Chief Len VanderWyst spent nine years as the top firefighter. Before that, he was in Neenah, where he oversaw the merge...

Teachers and police are praising a student at Oshkosh West high school for reporting a threatening "selfie." The student told teachers about a post by a classmate that showed the suspect pointing a gu...

The Brown County United Way topped its fundraising goal for last year. The organization hoped to bring in at least $4 million and the total exceeded that by nearly $95,000. President Robyn Davis says ...

Kaukauna officials are working on a plan in hopes that taxpayers won't have to pay paying $1 million toward a new lift bridge. The Veterans Memorial Bridge is near the downtown on Catherine Street, an...

This year's plans for the Highway 441 expansion project include more work around the Midway Road exit. The DOT is smoothing out two curves in the highway. Kurt Peters is the construction project manag...

The jury found a 40-year-old man guilty in the murder of a Ledgeview woman. Jurors deliberated for more than three hours on Thursday afternoon before returning with the verdict against George Burch. B...