Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Sorted by date Results 26 - 46 of 46
WORLAND - The Wyoming outdoor track and field season gets underway this weekend and for the Worland High School Warriors and Lady Warriors they will start the season at Wind River High School in Pavillion. It's a little closer and we weren't sure about the weather, so we thought we'd try Wind River out this year," said WHS track and field coach Tracey Wiley. For the first meet of the season, Wiley will take around 60 of her 72 athletes to Wind River, with some missing the meet due to speech and...
THERMOPOLIS - Finishing the season with a 4-20 overall record and a 0-6 record in the 3A Northeast division, there is plenty of work to be done for the Hot Springs County Bobcats boys basketball team during this offseason. While the Bobcats season came to a close in Wheatland during the 3A East regional tournament Feb. 28- March 2, the 'Cats do have a large part of their roster returning, which includes 3A East All-Conference selection Duder Harvey. "It was definitely a learning experience,...
Professional sports are reaching a breaking point with its most entitled group. The rise of social media has embolden them even more and something soon needs to be done in order to curb this uncontrollable entitlement. The owners of the franchises certainly won't do anything and the players can only do so much but in order to get these fans under control, it's going to take some self-policing. Yes, fans are the most entitled group in the entire professional sports landscape. Just look at what...
CODY– The Big Horn Basin Sage-Grouse Working Group will meet March 21 from 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Washakie County Fairgrounds (501 15 Mile Road) in Worland. The role of the group is to develop and initiate local conservation plans to benefit sage-grouse and, whenever feasible, other species that use sagebrush habitats. The group will meet to discuss updates to the Governor’s Sage-Grouse Executive Order and will welcome a new member. The working group is comprised of local citizens interested in sage-grouse conservation. Members represent agr...
Rebeka L. Hansen-Obenchain, 37, of Denver, died March 8, 2019, in Denver, Colorado. Rebeka was born June 28, 1981 in Worland. Services are planned for a future date....
Storm rages - Cheyenne State Offices remain closed CHEYENNE - Governor Mark Gordon announced that State Offices in Cheyenne will remain closed through today (Thursday, March 14). Other state offices may also remain closed or have delayed openings depending on their local weather conditions. The Governor has continued to work with the Wyoming Office of Homeland Security, the Wyoming Department of Transportation and the Wyoming Highway Patrol throughout the storm. "I've been told that we have not...
JACKSON — Where a phone call today is an iffy proposition, visitors and residents of Grand Teton National Park may soon have all their smartphones’ capabilities at their fingertips. A proposal being driven by telecommunications companies, and drawing the ire of one National Park Service watchdog group, would add nine new cell towers and bury 63 miles of high-speed fiber-optic cable between Moose and Flagg Ranch. Today, there are just two towers — at Jackson Hole Airport and Signal Mountain — and notoriously spotty signals, especially during...
BUFFALO — Convicted murder Donald C. Davis won an appeal to the Wyoming Supreme Court, which may set him free. On a September day in 1982, Donald C. Davis, then 17, and Robert G. Cotton, 19, picked up Randall Shoptwese, an 18-year-old Native American hitchhiker from Montana. The following morning, Shoptwese's body was discovered on Mayoworth Road, approximately halfway between Buffalo and Kaycee, a half mile off U.S. Highway 87. His hands had been cuffed behind his back and his head had nearly been severed from a buck knife wound. Davis and C...
DOUGLAS — Three years ago, you didn’t see too many oversized loads rumbling through the county. Douglas felt weary and empty. Few cranes jutted out on the horizon, and only rarely did you see long stretches of exposed earth, marking new pipelines. Today, Converse County is bursting with construction activity, leading to sales tax numbers that have reached the highs of the last boom in 2014. With another four months at the current pace, the City of Douglas will set an all-time sales tax record. Eight months into the fiscal year, Douglas is ave...
CHEYENNE — While the federal government paved the way for industrial hemp production in the 2018 Farm Bill, states still need direction on how the nascent industry will be regulated before seeds can go into the ground. Once hemp was legalized by the federal government, Wyoming’s Legislature took the step to legalize industrial hemp production during this year’s general session. House Bill 171, sponsored by Rep. Bunky Loucks, R-Casper, allows for hemp to be grown in the state, along with the production and sale of hemp-based products, inclu...
NEWCASTLE (WNE) — To kick off 2019, both the Newcastle City Council and Weston County commissioners eliminated the invocation, or prayer, before meetings. Traditionally, both boards started every meeting with an invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance. Since the beginning of the year, both groups have discontinued the prayer that was said by one of their members, citing different reasons. “I think it has been going on as long as I’ve been town attorney — so over 30 years,” City Attorney Jim Peck said. “The only invocations I paid attention t...
POWELL — In 2015, federal authorities agreed that William “Bill” Lee’s days of dealing and using methamphetamine appeared to be behind him. As a probation officer explained at the time, Lee had completed his court-ordered drug treatment, stabilized his personal life in Cody and was “no longer in need of supervision.” However, it was only about a year later, in November 2016, that Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation agents in Powell began to hear that Lee was again involved with meth. One informant later told authorities that “Lee was de...
RIVERTON — A public inquest into a fatal, officer-involved shooting that took place in January in Riverton will be held next month. No officers were injured in the Jan. 10 incident, which resulted in the death of Nicholas Garcia, 34, after an altercation with two agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Fremont County Attorney Patrick LeBrun determined last month that he will not press charges against the officers involved. But Fremont County Coroner Mark Stratmoen said it is his agency's policy to convene a public inquest w...
Esperanza C. Flores, 76, of Powell, passed away March 13, 2019 peacefully in her home. Funeral Mass services will be on Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 2 p.m. at St. Barbara's in Powell....
A Colorado resident is in custody following a pursuit which took place Wednesday, March 13th, 2019. The pursuit started north of Casper, Wyoming on Interstate 25. Randy Duran, a 27-year-old resident of Commerce City, Colorado, was arrested after fleeing a traffic stop on Interstate 25. Duran was stopped on Interstate 25 after driving around a road closed gate in a 2018 Dodge Ram. Duran fled from the trooper after failing to produce identification. The vehicle was pursued north on Interstate 25, before exiting onto WY 259. Around milepost 21 on...
CHEYENNE – Gov. Mark Gordon on Friday used his veto pen on two bills, one of which would have authorized the Legislature to sue to allow Wyoming’s coal to be exported through Washington state. Gordon also declined to sign several more bills he saw as problematic, including a bill to prevent county commissioners from creating special zoning regulations for private schools. While Gordon agreed Wyoming should sue Washington over the refusal to allow Wyoming coal to be shipped overseas out of the state’s ports, he vetoed House Bill 251 to preve...
Flaring requests increase CASPER (WNE) — The Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission green lit another flaring request last week, albeit a narrower one than usual, due to a packed docket of hearings. Navigation Powder River, LLC, an oil and gas exploration and production company, sought an exemption to Wyoming’s limitations on flaring gas at a new well. A pipeline that is currently contracted to be built to serve the well site is not complete. The company brought a slew of experts to argue for the duration and necessity of flaring up to...
Shopko announces commencement of liquidation sale; Company continuing to Evaluate Strategic Options for Optical Business GREEN BAY, Wis., - Shopko ("the Company") today (Monday) announced that despite the Company's best efforts, it was unable to find a buyer for its go-forward business as a going concern. As a result, Shopko will commence an orderly wind-down of its retail operations beginning this week. Further, the Company is evaluating strategic options for its optical business. The Company...
THERMOPOLIS - On March 19, 2019, a fatal crash occurred at milepost 128 on US 20 south of Thermopolis. Around 1:10 a.m., Wyoming Highway Patrol troopers were dispatched to the area for a one-vehicle rollover. A 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt was traveling southbound on US 20 when the vehicle failed to negotiate a curve to the left and went off the right side of the roadway. The Chevrolet crossed through a guardrail and down a steep embankment before coming to a rest on the railroad tracks below. The driv...