Category Archives: Local News
Man reported missing in Oshkosh is found dead
UPDATE (3/6/26): Police say Ellis did not have any injuries when his body was found. Autopsy results are pending. ----- OSHKOSH, Wis. -- A man reported missing in Oshkosh is found dead. Police say a b...
Mar 03, 2026 (Photo provided by the Oshkosh Police Department)
Valley Transit ridership down 40 percent since pandemic [AUDIO]
APPLETON, Wis. -- Ridership on Valley Transit buses has dropped by 40 percent since the pandemic. The system went from 944,000 rides in 2019 to 557,000 rides last year. Valley Transit ridership by lan...
Mar 03, 2026 (Image provided by Valley Transit)
Air Wisconsin ordered to turn over information related to hard landing incident
APPLETON, Wis. -- A federal judge orders Air Wisconsin to turn over information related to a hard landing involving one of its aircraft two years ago. The Federal Aviation Administration took the airl...
Mar 03, 2026 (Image provided by Air Wisconsin)
Appleton looking to impound vehicles involved in reckless driving incidents [AUDIO]
APPLETON, Wis. -- The city of Appleton is looking to impound vehicles involved in reckless driving incidents. Police chief Polly Olson hopes the possibility of losing a vehicle will make drivers think...
Mar 03, 2026 City of Appleton logo (Image courtesy City of Appleton)
Man reported as missing arrested after alleged high-speed chase, weapons incident
TOWN OF BYRON, Wis. -- A man reported as missing is in police custody following an alleged high-speed chase and weapons incident. A Fond du Lac County sheriff's deputy spotted the man driving at 120 m...
Mar 03, 2026 (Image from the Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office)
Alleged Green Bay drug dealer accused of stocking residence with homemade bombs
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- An alleged Green Bay drug dealer reportedly stocked his residence with homemade bombs. Kenneth Seay is charged in Brown County Court with 13 counts of possession of improvised explo...
Mar 02, 2026 Kenneth Seay (Photo courtesy Brown Co. Jail)
Charges filed in 2020 Waupaca County drug overdose death
WAUPACA, Wis. -- A Clintonville woman is accused of providing drugs to an overdose victim whose body has never been found. Desiree Osman is charged in Waupaca County Court with first-degree reckless h...
Mar 02, 2026 Desiree Osman (Photo courtesy Waupaca Co. Sheriff's Office)
Iowa company struggling to meet development agreement terms with Fox Valley cities [AUDIO]
APPLETON, Wis. -- An Iowa company is struggling to meet the terms of development agreements with several Fox Valley cities. WHBY's Jonathan Krause has the latest........... Merge Urban Development has...
Mar 02, 2026 A rendering of a new apartment complex proposed in the Shipyard district in Green Bay, Wis. (Image courtesy Slingshot Architecture/Merge Urban Development/City of Green Bay)
1 hurt, 1 arrested in Oshkosh stabbing
OSHKOSH, Wis. -- One person is hurt -- another is in custody -- following a stabbing incident in Oshkosh. Police were called to the 400 block of S. Koeller Street around 6:40 a.m. Saturday to find a 3...
Mar 02, 2026 Oshkosh Police Department patch (Image courtesy Oshkosh Police Dept.)
1 dead, 1 hurt in Bellevue house fire
UPDATE: The Brown County Sheriff's Office identifies the person who died as 82-year-old Marie Bayne and the person injured as 83-year-old Bruce Bayne. ----- BELLEVUE, Wis. -- One person is dead -- ano...
Mar 02, 2026 (Image: Green Bay Fire Department)
