Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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While Freedom Caucus argues for completing the deal after inauguration, advocates hope to get it done sooner. JACKSON - In mid-September, Arne Johanson paused while removing barbed-wire fence from the eastern edge of the Kelly parcel - one of the few impediments to wildlife movement on the pristine state trust land. One of the other barriers, though invisible and unseen to the pronghorn, mule deer, elk and bighorn sheep that move through or reside on the parcel's 640 acres, is politics. That bec...
Draft bill to be discussed Friday afternoon in Legislature’s Transportation Committee. JACKSON — Driver’s licenses and identification cards issued to legal immigrants in Wyoming could require a “Not a United States citizen” label if the Wyoming Legislature backs an upcoming bill draft. The Joint Transportation, Highways and Military Affairs Interim Committee will spend part of its last meeting before the 2025 general session considering a “Noncitizen driver’s license and ID card-revisions” bill. A request for the draft was made at the committe...
Lingle rounds up 12,000 pounds of spuds TORRINGTON (WNE) — The Food Bank of Wyoming recently added nearly 12,000 pounds of potatoes to its stockpile. The donation came from the University of Wyoming’s James C. Hageman Sustainable Agriculture Research and Extension Center near Lingle during its fourth annual potato harvest. “The potato harvest, made possible through a partnership between SAREC, the Food Bank of Wyoming, and UW Extension’s Cent$ible Nutrition Program, is part of ongoing efforts to address food security in Wyoming,” according...
POWELL - Community members crowded into the Park County School District 1 Board of Trustees meeting room Tuesday evening to speak their minds about transgender bathroom use in Powell schools. After some students voiced concerns to their parents about a transgender female (a biological male) in a girls' restroom at Powell High School, the topic hit the public sphere during an October school board forum, where a submitted comment said some girls had not been using the school's facilities or had...
Upland game bird seasons experience changes SHERIDAN (WNE) — Upland game bird hunters in the Sheridan Region will see several changes for the 2024 season. The chukar and gray partridge seasons were shortened by approximately one month and will run Sept. 15 through Jan. 31. Turkey hunters are alerted that beginning with the fall 2024 turkey season, there are no longer multiple turkey hunt areas, but one hunt area encompassing the entire state. The entire state has a general season of Oct. 1 through Dec. 31. In addition to a general license, h...
BUFFALO — After a year of record moisture in 2023, northeast Wyoming was ready to burn. And burn it did. Rain and snow fell early last year, resulting in grass growth. Without heavy snowpack this past winter to knock the blades down, vegetation cured and dried heading into summer. Come August, all the range needed was an ignition source and some wind to create a landscape level fire. With his 24 years of fire experience in the region, Craig Short said both the number of fires and the acres burned here are “unprecedented.” “We’ve never see...
CHEYENNE — An election error in Weston County worried some members of the public, who called on elected officials to halt the process of certifying Wyoming’s election results for statewide offices until after there had been a hand recount of votes in all 23 counties. However, members of the State Canvassing Board still unanimously voted to certify the state’s election results on Wednesday. The Canvassing Board is made up of four of the state’s top five elected officials: Chairman Secretary of State Chuck Gray, Gov. Mark Gordon, State Treasurer...
JACKSON - For well over a year, Teton County residents and water-quality watchdogs fought state officials and environmental regulators, arguing that a septic system for a glamping resort near Teton Village would likely fail, sending human sewage into Fish Creek. This October, the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality confirmed that those fears had come true. DEQ Director Todd Parfitt issued Tammah Jackson Hole, formerly known as Basecamp, an Oct. 29 notice of violation for its system. The...
SHERIDAN - Sheridan County School District 1 Business Manager Jeremy Smith's entire life has been geared towards "service above self," so it made sense to him to become a volunteer firefighter. Smith has been the business manager for SCSD1 for 22 years while also serving 20 years as a volunteer firefighter for the Dayton Fire and Rescue team, and has been one of many fighting the Elk Fire while holding down a fulltime job. Smith got back from hunting mid-morning Sept. 29 and was paged to go to...
Multi-million dollar ranches in the line of advancing fire. Crews feel confident in their ability to defend structures. GROS VENTRE - As the Pack Trail Fire moved down Burnt Ridge, torching pine trees in its path, Chris Fizer pointed to 10 feet of bare ground firefighters had cleared between a fence and the sagebrush hillside north of the Elk Track Ranch. If the fire got close enough, firefighters planned to climb the hill and set the sagebrush and grasses ablaze with drip torches to rob the...
CHEYENNE (October 17, 2024) – BrucePac is recalling approximately 12 million pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products that may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes. The recalled products were distributed in Wyoming and throughout the nation to distributors and retail establishments including restaurants, schools, and institutions. The scope of the recall is rapidly growing and may include more products than what is currently listed in Wyoming. At this time, we urge consumers to check for the following details. Affected product bra...
WORLAND, Wyo. – Effective immediately, the Bureau of Land Management has lifted fire restrictions on all public lands administered by the Cody, Lander and Worland field offices within Big Horn, Carbon, Fremont, Hot Springs, Park, Sweetwater and Washakie counties, and a small portion of Natrona County that falls within the Lander Field Office area. Fire danger has decreased across the BLM Wind River/Bighorn Basin District due to cooler temperatures and increased precipitation, allowing fire restrictions to be safely lifted. “It's still dry out...
CHEYENNE - Greybull's Travis Marshall still remembers the evening of Sept. 11, 2001, and the impact it had on his life. Just a few months after graduating from Greybull High, he found himself sitting in a Lander hotel room after a day in the oilfield when the images of 9/11 brought him to action. "I had joined the Wyoming National Guard before I graduated and was going to go to basic training later that summer," Marshall said. "In my hotel room that night, I decided I was going to switch from...
LDS officials conducted a groundbreaking ceremony for the Cody temple at its controversial site off Skyline Drive during a small, private ceremony blocked from public view last Friday. Elder Steven Bangerter of Salt Lake City asked a blessing on those who live near the location in his dedicatory prayer, according to an LDS news release. ‘“We ask that they may feel a spirit of peace wash over them, granting them comfort and assurance that the presence of this temple will bring added joy, prosperity, beauty and unity to their lives and their com...
Via Wyoming News Exchange POWELL — After securing a favorable court ruling last month, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says it’s starting work on its new temple in Cody. “Preliminary construction work is now underway on the property and a ceremonial groundbreaking service will be scheduled in the future,” church media relations manager Sam Penrod said in a Tuesday statement to the Tribune. Meanwhile, neighbors opposed to the location say they’ll continue to challenge the project in court. Following a public process that drew hun...
CHEYENNE - A Laramie man has been arrested on charges related to his conduct during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol, including allegedly assaulting law enforcement. August Garcia, 30, was arrested Monday in Cheyenne by the FBI, after which he made his initial appearance in U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming. He was charged with felony assaulting, resisting or impeding officers and obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder in a criminal complaint filed in...
SHERIDAN (WNE) - Dayton residents have raised several concerns about proposed zoning regulation changes. The concerns stem from desires to avoid government overreach and not to emulate some of Ranchester's regulations. Ultimately, minimum lot sizes for residentially zoned properties fall at the center of those concerns. Presently, Dayton's minimum lot size is 9,000 square feet for corner lots and 7,500 for all other lots. The proposed changes would increase the minimum lot size to 12,000 square...
Via Wyoming News Exchange CHEYENNE — The Wyoming Predators Working Group unanimously supported a draft bill Wednesday that would continue to allow residents to intentionally run over predatory animals with snowmobiles but require those who do so to kill the animal immediately. The bill draft was one of two discussed during its latest meeting at the state Capitol. Bill draft 140, “Animal abuse-predatory animals,” classifies intentionally running over predatory animals without using “all reasonable efforts” to kill it immediately as animal ab...
Via Wyoming News Exchange CODY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints won its lawsuits to build a proposed controversial temple in Cody, according to a judge’s decision issued Monday. The opponents may file an appeal. “…The Court affirms the City of Cody’s decision to grant a conditional use permit to the Church,” District Judge John Perry wrote. He found that Cody’s Planning and Zoning Board had approved the project, as LDS claimed, and that the opponents’ challenges were filed too late. The Enterprise contacted the church for comm...
The longtime operator of Star Plunge aquatic center in Hot Springs State Park has sued the state after Wyoming State Parks selected a new concessionaire to run the hot-spring facility. The complaint, filed Aug. 5 in Laramie County District Court, accuses the Wyoming Department of State Parks of exceeding its authority and violating regulations when it selected the new operator this spring. That selection essentially evicts the Luehne family from Star Plunge, a popular Wyoming tourist attraction...
Jackson, Wyo., August 22, 2024 — The Fish Creek Fire was discovered on Friday, August 16, in a remote area of the North Fork Fish Creek drainage, approximately 7 miles southwest of Togwotee Pass. The lightning-caused fire is currently 7,798-acres in size burning in heavy timber, litter, understory and standing dead trees. On August 21, 2024, a Complex Incident Management Team (CIMT) was ordered for the Fish Creek Fire. A CIMT is mobilized during complex emergency incidents to provide a command-and-control infrastructure in order to manage t...
Federal document released Thursday blends all four ‘alternatives’ in effort to heed public and cooperators’ requests after draft plans blew up. A year after a conservation-heavy draft management plan for 3.6 million acres of public land in southwest Wyoming ignited intense opposition, the Bureau of Land Management has issued a finalized plan seeking more of a balance between landscape protection and development. The final environmental impact statement outlining BLM’s proposed Resource Management Plan for the Rock Springs Field Office was rel...
CHEYENNE (WNE) - Gov. Mark Gordon will lead a special meeting of the Wyoming State Building Commission (SBC) to hear public comment regarding reconsideration of the SBC Rules prohibiting firearms within public areas of the Capitol and Capitol Extension. The special meeting of the SBC reflects the governor's promise to take action on concealed carry rules for state executive branch facilities. The meeting will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday in the Capitol Extension Conference Center Auditorium,...
Writer’s submissions appeared to have been manufactured by AI POWELL — A reporter at the Cody Enterprise resigned on Friday, after the Powell Tribune confronted him with evidence indicating that he’d fabricated some of the quotes that appeared in several of his stories. In an interview just prior to his resignation, Aaron Pelczar conceded that the quotes may have been made up by an artificial intelligence tool he was using to help write his articles. To date, seven people — ranging from Gov. Mark Gordon to the victim of an alleged crime ...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – In response to a request for assistance from Texas, Governor Mark Gordon announced that Wyoming law-enforcement personnel will be deploying to the southern border with Mexico. The deployment of 10 Wyoming Highway Patrol (WHP) troopers later this month is in response to an Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) request from Texas Governor Greg Abbott and is being coordinated through the Wyoming Office of Homeland Security (WOHS). During the 14-day deployment, the WHP troopers will provide law enforcement and emergency a...