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Masks will continue to be required inside most University of Wyoming buildings where 6-foot social distancing isn’t possible, following action by the UW Board of Trustees. The board voted today (Friday) to extend the mask policy, as Albany County remains in the Wyoming Department of Health’s “moderate-high transmission levels” category for COVID-19. There currently are 63 active cases among UW students and employees. The policy will be revisited in subsequent meetings of the board. “Our mask policy has helped us start our traditional fall seme...
Yellowstone worker burned near Old Faithful JACKSON (WNE) — A 19-year-old working in Yellowstone National Park concessions suffered the first significant thermal-burn injuries of the year early Thursday morning near Old Faithful. Rangers provided initial care to the woman, from Rhode Island, for second- and third-degree burns to 5% of her body. Due to the injuries, she was taken by ambulance to West Yellowstone and then life-flighted to the Burn Center at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, according to a National Park Service news release....
A group of activists that included healthcare workers commandeered a meeting of the Wyoming Legislature's Joint Committee on Labor, Health and Social Services Thursday to demand legislative action against COVID-19 vaccination requirements at medical facilities around the state. After the meeting, nearly 80 people gathered outside to demonstrate against vaccine mandates. Though COVID-19 vaccinations or mandates were not on the labor committee's agenda, activists from as far as Gillette and...
GILLETTE (WNE) — A 64-year-old Campbell County man is out $150,000 from scams involving transactions that masqueraded as federal debt relief programs. He told Campbell County Sheriff's deputies on Monday that the suspects sent bad checks for him to deposit and asked for the cash to be sent to different locations throughout the country, as a tax payment on the relief payouts. A significant portion of the $150,000 lost in the scam was converted into and sent as Bitcoin, said Undersheriff Quentin Reynolds. Deputies contacted the FBI for help on t...