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Appleton’s public health department is reporting nine more confirmed COVID-19 cases in the city. Four people caught it through community spread, one got it from a known case, and four are under ...

Seven workers at the state’s prison in Portage were fired, and another was suspended, in connection with an escape in April. The state Department of Corrections isn’t releasing any other i...

One of the state’s experts on the coronavirus pandemic says the current situation is bad, and potentially getting worse. Dr. Ryan Westergaard of the Department of Health Services says the contin...

The president of Prevea Health says people shouldn’t track coronavirus numbers on a daily basis. Dr. Ashok Rai tells Action 2 News it’s better to follow a 14-day block. He thinks comparing...

The state’s unemployment rate went down to 8.5 percent last month. It was 12.1 percent in May, and 3.4 percent in June of last year. Companies added more than 99,000 jobs, and there are almost 1...

A federal bankruptcy judge will let the owners of the Menominee Nation Arena in Oshkosh keep money they received from the federal Small Business Administration. Fox Valley Pro Basketball President Gre...

The decision by the Green Bay Packers to keep fans from practices, preseason games. and the Family Night scrimmage will cost the local economy about $40 million. Greater Green Bay Convention and Visit...

Appleton leaders are taking the formal step of approving a grant to help convert a trestle bridge into a trail. The David and Rita Nelson Family Fund is donating $500,000 toward the project. The city ...

Kaukauna High School is making changes to next week’s graduation ceremony. Principal Corey Baumgartner is calling it a “walking graduation.” He says students will walk around the tra...

The rate for people filling out the census is around 80 percent. That’s among the highest rates in the country. But the chair of the Outagamie County Complete Count committee, Supervisor Jerry I...