Regional News

Evanston moms, newborns and moms-to-be get a lifeline from Utah
April 16, 2025
• Intermountain Health launches program to offer in-person and virtual visits for pre-pregnancy, prenatal and postpartum care in bid to fill maternity care gap. By Katie Klingsporn, WyoFile.com Less than four months after Evanston Regional Hospital discontinued its... Read More

Two in custody for area ATM theft
April 15, 2025
• Sheriff: ‘More arrests could be coming’ Two Texas men are in custody after a Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office investigation into a reported ATM burglary and the theft of two vehicles in the Star Valley area. Deputies from the... Read More

Bridger-Teton National Forest Seeks Comments on Proposed Fuels Project
April 15, 2025
The Bridger-Teton National Forest, Jackson and Blackrock Ranger Districts are seeking comments on the proposed Shadow Mountain Habitat Enhancement project. This fuels treatment project would include a combination of prescribed fire and mechanical treatments at Shadow Mountain to improve wildlife... Read More

WYDOT crews moving snow, prepping site, still shooting for early July opening of Teton Pass
April 14, 2025
By Charley Sutherland Jackson Hole News&Guide Via- Wyoming News Exchange JACKSON — Spring has sprung, and the Wyoming Department of Transportation and contracted construction crews are back at work repairing Teton Pass, which was destroyed in part last summer... Read More

Select Yellowstone National Park entrances and roads open to public April 18
April 12, 2025
MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – Beginning at 8 a.m. Friday, April 18, 2025, select entrances and roads in Yellowstone National Park will open for the summer season, weather permitting, as part of the annual spring opening. Entrances Open on... Read More

Teen gets 42-75 years for murder
April 10, 2025
• 16-year killed ex-girlfriend; defense plans to appeal By Dylan Farrell Casper Star-Tribune Via- Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — Eavan Castaner, the teen who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the killing of 17-year-old Lene’a Brown, was sentenced... Read More

Public defender requests inpatient evaluation of teen charged with first-degree murder
April 10, 2025
• Death penalty dropped By Cali O’Hare Pinedale Roundup Via- Wyoming News Exchange PINEDALE — A 19-year-old Big Piney man charged with first-degree murder and mutilation of a dead human body will be transferred from the Sublette... Read More

Nine area youth involved in head-on collision outside Cokeville
April 10, 2025
The Wyoming Highway Patrol (WHP) and other first-responders were on the scene of a head-on collision outside Cokeville on Wednesday evening involving nine area minors. According to the WHP, the incident occurred at mile post 1 on Highway 232 at... Read More

Area wide snowpacks remain at median
April 10, 2025
Provided by DeMont B. Grandy, Natural Resource Specialist, LCD The past month’s snowpacks’ area wide snow water equivalents (SWE) remained above median for this time of the year. It has been a good water year so far, nothing too... Read More

Wave Radio Interview: Tamra Fisher & John Cook, Community Art Exhibition
April 9, 2025
Tamra Fisher and John Cook from the Bear Lake Arts Council joined the Morning Chit Chat to discuss the upcoming Community Art Exhibition on April 26. Read More

TriSight founder discusses alternative uses for coal
April 9, 2025
By Rana Jones Kemmerer Gazette Via- Wyoming News Exchange KEMMERER — In the wake of recent layoffs at the Kemmerer coal mine, TriSight unveiled its plans for coal repurposing at a community gathering at Diamondville Town Hall last month. ... Read More

Sister of slain local child alleged victim of abuse
April 8, 2025
By Rana Jones Kemmerer Gazette Via- Wyoming News Exchange KEMMERER — New developments have emerged in the case of E.N., a young child who survived a horrific family tragedy, only to endure further alleged suffering under foster care. ... Read More

Thousands of pronghorn died in the Red Desert two winters ago. A new paper shows why.
April 8, 2025
High snow and endless fences made for a lethal combination that researchers and wildlife advocates are working to change. By Christine Peterson, WyoFile.com Two years ago, as one storm after another piled feet of snow across south-central Wyoming, pronghorn... Read More

Bomb squad called in after teen finds live grenades
April 7, 2025
RIVERTON (WNE) — The Riverton Police Department brought in the bomb squad Wednesday after a local teen brought home mud-slicked grenades that he thought were toys, but turned out to be live weapons. Shortly before 7 p.m. on Wednesday,... Read More

FBI to deploy personnel to help with missing and murdered Indigenous people
April 7, 2025
By Sarah Elmquist Squires The Ranger Via- Wyoming News Exchange RIVERTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigations Denver Field Office, which oversees FBI work in Wyoming and on the Wind River Reservation, may soon get a boost in visiting... Read More

PacifiCorp throws lifeline to one Wyoming power plant, confirms end of coal at another
April 4, 2025
• Utility’s moves will result in more planet-warming emissions and higher electric bills, critics say. By Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile.com Wyoming’s largest electric utility has thrown a temporary lifeline to the Dave Johnston coal-fired power plant near Glenrock while... Read More

Once again, Trump administration asks western Wyoming foresters to resign
April 4, 2025
By Billy Arnold Jackson Hole News&Guide Via- Wyoming News Exchange JACKSON — Warning that future cuts to the federal workforce are inbound, the Trump administration is, once again, asking U.S. Forest Service workers in Jackson Hole — and elsewhere... Read More

Cokeville Police Department seizes 120 pounds of marijuana
April 3, 2025
On the afternoon of April 2, the Cokeville Police Department (CPD) made a traffic stop that resulted in the seizure of 120 pounds of marijuana. “Officer Davis Stocking was running radar on highway 30 and saw a semi truck doing... Read More

Shumway provides update on Forest Service Plan
April 2, 2025
• Lincoln County Commissioner, Mel Shumway, shares about the Revision Plan for the Bridger-Teton National Forest In a recent interview on SVI Radio, Lincoln County Commissioner Mel Shumway offered a comprehensive update on the Forest Revision Plan for the... Read More

Yellowstone tourist gets jail time for parking on thermal area
April 1, 2025
POWELL (WNE) — A Georgia man who parked on top of one of Yellowstone National Park’s thermal areas last fall has been ordered to serve a week in jail and stay out of the park for the next five years. ... Read More