Evansville IN

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - The Evansville Fire Department launched a new online platform that will allow residents and business owners to share information about their properties. They say this will give crews access to information including household members and pets, medical or mobility needs, gate codes, utility shut

HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) — A woman has been sentenced after pointing a gun at a police officer. Crystal Smith was sentenced to three years, with the first of those to be served under house arrest. Smith was arrested back in May after she pointed a gun at an Evansville police officer. She was charged with […]

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WARRICK CO., Ind. (WFIE) - The brand new jail in Warrick County is now housing inmates. You may remember, the county built a $50 million state-of-the-art facility that serves as both a detention center and the sheriff’s office. The new building is nearly three times as large as the...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - Officials gave an update on the I-69 Ohio River Crossing construction progress in their August 2026 Quarterly Connection release. According to the release, the approach work in Evansville is 85% complete and is scheduled to be completed later this year. They say the road and bridges...

EPD Sergeant Anthony Aussieker on crash involving bus.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - What started as a traffic stop for running a red light ended with an Evansville teen arrested on drug and DUI charges. Around 4:30 a.m. Thursday, Evansville Police say they received a report of a possible drunk driver on the Lloyd Expressway who couldn’t stay in their lane and was driving too

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) — A major crash shut down the Lloyd Expressway for hours. The five-vehicle accident involved a charter bus and sent five people to the hospital. The five injured in the crash have injuries ranging from minor to critical. “20 seconds goes boom,” says bus passenger Anthony Bell. “It all happened s

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) – Central dispatch has confirmed to Eyewitness News that crews are currently responding to a report of an accident involving a bus in Evansville. The accident was reported at the intersection of the Lloyd Expressway and Cross Pointe Boulevard. The accident was called in just before 11 a.m.. Evan

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - Five people were injured, some critically, after witnesses say a bus plowed into several vehicles stopped at a traffic light in Evansville Thursday morning. First responders say the crash, which happened at Cross Pointe, led to Lloyd being shut down from the I-69 interchange to Burkhardt.