WYDOT announces automated VSL pilot program
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The Wyoming Department of Transportation is announcing an innovative pilot program to semi-automate Variable Speed Limit signs this winter in an effort to increase safety and to accommodate for Wyoming’s quickly-changing weather conditions. Typically, VSL changes are prompted by…
Governor’s Gas and Diesel Working Group Report Offers Ideas for Reducing Prices at the Pump
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Record-level inflation over the last year has hurt many hard-working Wyoming families, forcing difficult financial decisions. In June of this year, when gasoline prices rose to their highest recorded levels, Governor Mark Gordon established the Gas and Diesel…
Independent Obituaries: October 19, 2022
The following obituaries appeared in the October 19, 2022 edition of the Star Valley Independent. For more area obituaries, please visit Schwab Mortuary. For more resources including headstones, please visit the Star Valley Historical Society. Steven J Stumpp passed away…
Sheriff’s Office asks for public help finding Greys River hunters suspected of assault
◆ Anyone with information, please call Sheriff’s Office at 307-885-5231 By Duke Dance The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office is asking anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of multiple hunters involved in an altercation over the weekend to contact law enforcement…
Cowboy Basketball Receives Votes in Preseason Associated Press Top-25 Poll
• Wyoming receives 25 votes The Associated Press announced its Preseason Poll on Monday with the Wyoming Cowboys receiving 25 votes. The Cowboys were ranked as high as No. 22 in last season’s poll. The Mountain West had two teams…
Cowboys Will Host Utah State Saturday for Homecoming
Tim Harkins Associate Athletics Director for Media Relations, Public Relations and Broadcasting University of Wyoming Athletics • Two Teams Tied for Second in the Mountain Division It will be a day filled with traditions when Wyoming hosts Utah State this…
Seven landowners were recognized as the 2022 landowners of the year by Game and Fish.
Cheyenne – For nearly three decades the Wyoming Game and Fish Department has recognized landowners who have demonstrated outstanding wildlife management and implemented habitat improvement and conservation techniques on their properties with the landowner of the year awards. These stewards…
Yellowstone visitation statistics for September 2022
• Commemorate 150 Years of Yellowstone MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – Yellowstone National Park hosted 567,587 recreation visits in September 2022. This is a 36% decrease from September 2021 (882,078 recreational visits), the most-visited September on record, and an 18% decrease…
Pair of Northwest College wrestlers injured in grizzly attack
A grizzly bear attacked and injured two men who apparently surprised the bruin while they were recreating in the Shoshone National Forest in northwestern Wyoming, state wildlife officials said Monday. The two men are athletes are from the Northwest College…
(Video) – Cokeville Panthers Football @ Thermopolis
The Cokeville Panthers look to pick up another win in the 2A West as they take on the Bobcats in a Friday afternoon game. Join Aaron Feeley (@AaronFeeley) here on SVI-3 and on The Wave. Kick-off is schedule for 4…