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  • Warriors regroup after loss heading into 3A state tournament

    Alex Kuhn, Sports Editor|Mar 8, 2017

    BUFFALO - The Worland Warriors had their 14-game winning streak snapped Saturday night vs. the Douglas Bearcats in the 3A East regional championship at Buffalo High School. As the score gives away the Warriors fell 40-35 in overtime to the Bearcats in a hard-fought, defensive battle. After scoring a total of four points in the first quarter the Warriors clawed their way back into the game with their defense. They even held Douglas scoreless for a 10-minute stretch from part of the second...

  • Mar 8, 2017

    Public Notice Worland City Council Minutes...  Website

  • Gerald Edward Beers

    Mar 8, 2017

    Gerald Edward Beers of Priest River, Idaho went to be with his Savior and Lord peacefully with family by his side on February 22, 2017. He was 92. He is predeceased by his parents, Bruce and Gladys Beers; brothers, Bruce and Rod, first wife, Christine, son Dwight and many cousins. He is survived by his wife, Marie, daughters Yvonne Beers of Priest River, ID, Pamela (Don) Redford of Lynnwood, WA, Becky (Scott) Wilson of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, sons, Brian (Kristina) Beers of Olympia, WA and Edward (Corina) Beers of Long Beach, WA; sister,... Full story

  • Matt McPherson voted employee of the year

    Tracie Mitchell, Staff Writer|Mar 8, 2017

    WORLAND – On March 1, Banner Health Washakie Medical Center respiratory therapist Matt McPherson was surprised during the annual employee of the year luncheon to learn that he had been voted by his peers to be the 2016 employee of the year. The employee of the year receives a plaque with his picture on the wall of the hospital and a $150 gift certificate. McPherson stated that when he first started at the hospital he saw the plaques and knew that earning employee of the year was a goal that h...

  • Experiencing Worland and the U.S.

    Karla Pomeroy, Editor|Mar 8, 2017

    WORLAND - Worland High School's two Rotary Exchange Youth program students have been settling in to life in rural Wyoming. Francisco De Miguel of Argentina and Annie Deutschendorf of Germany came to Wyoming through the Rotary Exchange Youth Program. The program locally brings two students to Worland High School each year. Fran, who has two sisters, including a twin, said he wanted to participate in the program because he felt he was doing the same thing over and over in Argentina and was...

  • Worland man pleads guilty in Montana murders

    Mar 8, 2017

    BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Worland man pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of second-degree murder and other crimes for shooting a couple and wounding their daughter when the family tried to help him along a road on Montana’s Crow Indian Reservation. Jesus Deniz Mendoza, 19, faces life in prison under an agreement reached last month with federal prosecutors in which he acknowledged killing Jason and Tana Shane and wounding their daughter in July 2015. Mendoza was 18 at the time. “I was pulled over by the side of the road and some Native Ameri...

  • Mar 8, 2017

    Public Notice DEQ Request MCL 1 Oil and Gas of Wyoming Venting Activities...  Website