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WORLAND - After the resignation of Todd Weber on April 24, the Worland High School football coach from 2015-16, the Warrior football program was set to looking for another head coach. A month into the search, WHS activities director Mark Mortimer found his coach from within the program, promoting Ryan Utterback to the head coaching position. Utterback, the health and strength and conditioning P.E. teacher at WHS, was on Weber's coaching staff the past two seasons as the offensive and defensive...
The Northern Wyoming Daily News has received a report of a power outage that will occur To 7 pm this evening until midnight. The outage will impact Worland residents east of 15th Street including some oil fields. The following is a statement from Rocky Mountain Power about Friday night's power outage. Rocky Mountain Power crews will be working to replace a damaged power line structure in Worland, Wyoming this evening. The emergency repair requires that a large outage for customers east of 15th Street in Worland will be necessary from 7 p.m....
CHEYENNE (AP) — A legislative committee’s task of finding new sources of revenue for Wyoming’s state government, which depends heavily on the boom-and-bust prone energy industry, includes looking at new taxes or increasing existing taxes, a co-chairman of the panel said. The Legislature’s Joint Revenue Interim Committee was directed by legislative leadership to identify ways to raise new revenue in to offset the deficits in state government operations and funding for public schools. State tax collections have declined because of the downtur...
WORLAND – Three Worland High School students, specializing in auto mechanics, swept the first, second and third places in their division at the State SkillsUSA Competition in April, with one student garnering a spot at the national competition in June. Under the leadership of auto mechanics teacher Mike Sapp and welding instructor Casey Lewis, senior Israel “Izzy” Vega placed third, senior Gavin Weyrich placed second, and junior Tanner Allen placed first in automotive skills at the state contest in Casper April 24-26, qualifying to trave...
CHEYENNE (AP) — Most of Wyoming, including the heavily forested northwest part of the state, is predicted to have a slightly below average to average large wildfire season this year, state forester Bill Crapser said. “Their best long-term trends right now are kind of on the low end of average,” Crapser said. “They are predicting quite a bit of lightning. So their prediction right now is that we’re probably going to have ... a lot of starts, but probably a lower than average large fire development.” The predictions come from the Rocky Mount...
THERMOPOLIS – Thermopolis students in grades third through sixth attended the Farm to Table Ag Expo, Thursday at the Hot Springs County Fairgrounds to learn about agriculture and how their food goes from the field or ranch to their table. "The expo is to help educate students about what ag is, opportunities in ag and where their food comes from," Thermopolis Middle School vocation teacher Becky Martinez said. "The goal is to springboard off recent legislation allowing more locally grown food i...
WORLAND — South Side students in Julie Newell’s third-grade class celebrated Red Nose Day Thursday, May 25. Newell said she is using Red Nose Day to teach the students lessons on poverty and knowing the difference between wants and needs. She said it also brings awareness of less fortunate children around the world. This is the first year Newell’s class observed National Red Nose Day, thanks in part to her parents, Dee Anne and Charles Vandiver. Every year they visit her class bringing some treat to the students and this year it was red noses...