Minerals committee moves to support big business
◆ CARES Act funds to continue to be distributed. By Allayana Darrow The Sheridan Press Via- Wyoming News Exchange SHERIDAN — A bill to create a relief program for businesses with 100 employees or more passed through the Wyoming Legislature…
Days after wife’s COVID death, husband loses his life
By Clair McFarland Riverton Ranger Via- Wyoming News Exchange RIVERTON — COVID-19 has struck multiple members of yet another Northern Arapaho family, as a wife and husband both died this week after contracting the virus. The first three fatalities in…
Gillette man dies in fall at Keyhole
GILLETTE (WNE) — A 29-year-old Gillette man fell off an embankment and died during a late-night walk while camping at Keyhole State Park. The man, identified as Cameron MacNeil, was camping with his girlfriend at the Wind Creek Campground near…
Gordon announces new scholarship program
By Tom Coulter Wyoming Tribune Eagle Via- Wyoming News Exchange CHEYENNE — Gov. Mark Gordon announced a new program Wednesday creating scholarships for adults who are unemployed or underemployed due to the COVID-19 pandemic to attend the University of Wyoming…
Original J.C. Penney store up for sale
—————————— ROCK SPRINGS (WNE) — The original J.C. Penney store in Kemmerer, Wyoming, which opened in 1902, has been put up for sale. J.C. Penney Co. filed for bankruptcy in May, stating that the closure of stores due to…
Active coronavirus cases drop by 34 with 70 recoveries Tuesday
The state’s number of active coronavirus cases fell by 34 on Tuesday as the Wyoming Department of Health reported recoveries among 70 people who have been infected with the disease since mid-March. The department, in its daily coronavirus update, said…
Chase ends in head-on collision, arrest
———————- EVANSTON (WNE) — Three people were hospitalized on Saturday, Aug. 1, and a Utah man was arrested following a head-on collision on Interstate 80 just east of Evanston. According to a Facebook post by Uinta County Fire and Ambulance,…
War Memorial Stadium seating will be limited
——————— CASPER (WNE) — The University of Wyoming’s War Memorial Stadium will likely be kept at roughly a quarter of its capacity in the coming season and student capacity may be slashed by as much as two-thirds, the school’s athletic…
Sixteen hurt in hot air balloon crash
———– By Emily Mieure and Billy Arnold Jackson Hole Daily Via- Wyoming News Exchange JACKSON — Three hot air balloons carrying dozens of people lost control Monday morning and came to a crashing halt in a field near Teton Village….
As case numbers spike, cause of coronavirus spread harder to pin down
By Seth Klamann Casper Star-Tribune Via- Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — As the novel coronavirus continues to spike through the summer, health officials from across Wyoming say the spread can’t be attributed to large clusters but rather to small gatherings…