Category Archives: Local News
Wisconsin agency suspends burn permits amid dry conditions
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is suspending burning permits in its jurisdictions in 43 counties and mobilizing firefighters as the state heads into an unseasonabl...
Apr 2, 2021 Prescribed fire to restore prairie vegetation, near Black Earth, WI, Forestry image catalog Photo Credit: Jeff Martin (JMAR Foto-Werks)
Wisconsin adds the most new cases of coronavirus since mid-February
Wisconsin records the most new cases of coronavirus in nearly two months. The state Department of Health Services reports 875 positive tests today--with a positivity rate of 20-percent. That is the mo...
Apr 2, 2021
Charges filed in fatal Green Bay stabbing
Criminal charges are filed against a Green Bay man in connection with a fatal stabbing incident. Wesley Brice is facing counts of First Degree Intentional Homicide and Reckless Endangerment. According...
Apr 2, 2021
Coronavirus vaccine registration opens up tomorrow
Starting Monday, anyone over the age of 16 can receive a coronavirus vaccine. Registration for the Fox Cities Exhibition Center site opens up tomorrow. Appleton Health Officer Kurt Eggebrecht says the...
Apr 2, 2021 (Photo from WHBY archives)
Sheriff’s office confirms second canoer’s body recovered from Lake Winnebago
Fond du Lac County Sheriff's officials say they've found the bodies of both of the men who went missing when a canoe capsized on Lake Winnebago earlier this week. Sheriff Ryan Waldschmidt says divers ...
Apr 1, 2021
De Pere city worker dies in industrial accident
A city of De Pere employee is killed in an accident on the job. Police say the man was injured Thursday morning. The site and time of the incident has not been released. He was pronounced dead at the ...
Apr 1, 2021
COVID rate increasing in Wisconsin
Wisconsin sees more than 500 new cases of coronavirus for a third straight day. The state Department of Health Services reports 517 positive test on Thursday--with a positivity rate of 11-percent. The...
Apr 1, 2021
Vaccine distribution at record pace
Wisconsin sets another weekly record for coronavirus vaccinations. The state is administering 56-thousand doses a day--the highest rate since vaccinations began in December. Thirty-one percent of all ...
Apr 1, 2021
Two years later, Appleton man still missing
It's been two years since an Appleton man went missing in Oconto County. Nicholas Hietpas was last seen by family and friends on April 1, 2019. He was 22 at the time he went missing. His car was found...
Apr 1, 2021
Suspicious death in Kaukauna
Kaukauna Police are investigating what officials call a suspicious death. Officers were called to a home in the 100 block of West Division Street on the north side around 3:30 p.m. yesterday. They fou...
Apr 1, 2021
