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WORLAND – Sixty to 70 gallons of diesel fuel spilled on N. Highway 20 Monday afternoon after a two-vehicle collision. The collision between a Wyoming Department of Transportation truck and Teton Petroleum Transport, LLC semi-truck happened around 12:40 p.m. between mile marker 173 and 174 north of Worland after the semi-truck with two empty tanker trailers was traveling southbound and slowing at the right hand turn into Devon Energy, Wyoming Highway Patrolman Lt. Karl Germain said. Germain said the driver of WYDOT dump truck following behind t...
MANDERSON — A fatal crash west of Manderson on Aug. 27 has resulted in the death of 51-year-old Scott Hennager from Big Timber, Mont. The crash occurred at 4:39 p.m. on Saturday near mile post 186 on US Highway 20 approximately two miles west of Manderson. Hennager was operating a 2014 Harley-Davidson motorcycle while traveling west on US 20 when the motorcycle drifted off the roadway to the north. After leaving the highway, the motorcycle vaulted over an irrigation ditch and collided with a sign. Hennager was thrown from the motorcycle, was n...
WORLAND - Minor disruptions to traffic are expected beginning Monday during replacement of sidewalk corners, sidewalk, curb and gutter, double gutter and electrical work between 10th and 23rd streets in Worland. Prime contractor EHC LLC of Deaver plans to begin work on the $1.13 million Americans with Disabilities Act project Monday, according to Wyoming Department of Transportation resident engineer Dan McAfee of Worland. During the project, weekly public information sharing meetings are...
The other day I was thinking about how things have changed during my lifetime. One of the things I mused about was the Cold War with the USSR. From a very early time, maybe as early as 1949, when I started school, it was obvious to me that Soviet Russia was an enemy. I remember a headline when I was 8 or 9 about the Russians exploding a hydrogen bomb, and that people were upset about it. I remember also some films demonstrating what to do in the event of a nuclear attack; essentially, the advice was to get under your desk. Even as a small boy,...
LIVINGSTON, Mont. (AP) — The indefinite closure of Montana’s Yellowstone River due to a major fish kill is raising worries about lasting impacts to the region’s lucrative outdoors industry. A 183-mile stretch of the river has been closed since Aug. 19, after tens of thousands of mountain whitefish died downstream from Yellowstone National Park. Gov. Steve Bullock on Monday declared an “invasive species emergency” because of a parasite blamed for the fish kill. The move allows the state to spend money on grants for impacted businesses and relat...
LARAMIE — Craig Bohl doesn’t see Northern Illinois as a football team. The third-year University of Wyoming football coach sees the Cowboys’ season-opening foe Saturday night as much more than that. “When you’re talking about Northern Illinois, you’re talking about a program,” said Bohl during his weekly news conference Monday. “In the last 10 years they’re in the top five (nationally) in winning percentage.” Northern Illinois, a member of the Mid-American Conference, has done most of its winning over the last half of the last decade. Over the...
POWELL, Wyoming – College rodeo teams from across the Big Sky Region will be in Cody Friday and Saturday, Sept. 9 and 10, to compete at Northwest College’s Trapper Stampede. The annual event reins in the start of the season for the NWC team. Action gets underway at 7 p.m. both nights at the Cody Stampede Rodeo arena with bareback riding, barrel racing, breakaway roping, bull riding, calf roping, goat tying, saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling and team roping. This year’s rodeo is dedicated to Justin Honken, a 2016 NWC graduate and Trapp...
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