Category Archives: Local News
Voter turnout up 34% in Oshkosh for primary
The mailing of absentee ballot applications to all registered voters in Oshkosh helped increase turnout for this month's primary. City Clerk Pam Ubrig says it was up 34 percent from the August vote in...
Aug 25, 2020 (Image provided by the City of Oshkosh)
Lawsuit filed over mask mandate
Three people are suing Governor Evers over the statewide mask mandate. Two are from Polk County, and the other is from St. Croix County, and they're represented by the conservative law firm the Wiscon...
Aug 25, 2020
Man shot in Kenosha paralyzed
Jacob Blake's father says the 29-year-old is paralyzed from the waist down. The father is also named Jacob Blake. He told the Chicago Sun-Times his son has "eight holes" in his body. The father said h...
Aug 25, 2020
House explodes in Oshkosh
The Oshkosh Fire Department is investigating a house explosion near Merrill Middle School. It happened yesterday around 5:30 p.m. at the corner of West Custer Avenue and Kentucky Street. One person wa...
Aug 25, 2020
G.B. school district sets plan to reopen
The Green Bay School Board unanimously approved a plan to reopen schools. Superintendent Stephen Murley says they put together their own plan because they're not getting guidance from federal, state a...
Aug 25, 2020
Local protesters call for justice after Kenosha shooting
The police shooting of a Black man in Kenosha led to protests in the Fox Valley yesterday. People stood along College Avenue and in Houdini Plaza in downtown Appleton last evening, calling for justice...
Aug 25, 2020
School year underway in Brillion
Students are back in the classroom in Brillion. The district is having in-person classes five days a week for all students. Superintendent Nick Madison says they're phasing things in, to make sure stu...
Aug 24, 2020
Man charged with homicide in death of abuse victim
Prosecutors are charging a Fond du Lac man with homicide, three years after a girl died from pneumonia. Twenty-nine-year-old Thomas Abitz is in prison for child abuse, after he hurt the girl when she ...
Aug 24, 2020
COVID-19 outbreak grows at G.B. prison
There are more coronavirus cases at the Green Bay state prison. The Department of Corrections is reporting 258 inmates caught it, and so did 20 staff. That's the largest outbreak in a prison in Wiscon...
Aug 24, 2020
Evers calls special session on police reform
Governor Evers wants state lawmakers to work on police reforms right away. He's calling a special session for next Monday, on a series of bills he proposed in June. The decision comes in the wake of y...
Aug 24, 2020 (Image: Office of the Governor)
