Wyoming Law Enforcement Torch Run Selling Pigskin Madness Raffle Tickets
WYOMING – Wyoming Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics Wyoming is selling Pigskin Madness Raffle Tickets, a $20.00 game of chance. Each ticket has seven chances to win each of the 17 weeks of the professional football season. Each…
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue to Visit Wyoming’s Thunder Basin National Grassland
WRIGHT, Wyo – Secretary Perdue will visit Wyoming July 30-31 and visit Thunder Basin National Grassland. This will be Perdue’s second visit to Wyoming and his first visit to Thunder Basin National Grassland, one of only 20 national grasslands in…
Contura agrees to buy back Blackjewel’s Wyoming mines
By Greg Johnson Gillette News Record Via Wyoming News Exchange GILLETTE — Blackjewel LLC has reached a deal to sell the Belle Ayr and Eagle Butte surface coal mines in Campbell County along with a mine in West…
Kemmerer youth found safe in Evanston area
According to Kemmerer Police Chief Mike Kahre, Thomas Archibald has been located in the Evanston area and is safe and en route back to Kemmerer. *** Original Story*** The Kemmerer Police Department and the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office are…
Fatal Crash Near Casper
On July 20, 2019, a fatal crash occurred around milepost 14 on Wyoming 258 near the city limits of Casper, Wyoming. Around 10:00 p.m., Wyoming Highway Patrol troopers were dispatched to the area for a motor vehicle collision. A 1992…
Wyoming Regional Wildlife Supervisor Testifies Before the Senate on Human-Predator Conflict
Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), welcomed Brad Hovinga, Jackson regional wildlife supervisor for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, to the committee. Hovinga was testifying before the committee…
Enzi sponsors resolution declaring July 27 as National Day of the American Cowboy
Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution declaring July 27, 2019 as the National Day of the American Cowboy. This resolution, sponsored by U.S. Senators Mike Enzi, R-Wyo. and Jon Tester, D-Mont., commemorates the pioneering men…
NEWS BRIEFS for Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Cheyenne City Council adopts comprehensive open data policy CHEYENNE (WNE) – Cheyenne City Council members voted unanimously Monday to establish a policy that city officials say will make more information available to more people. The new open data policy commits…
Herbicides, bugs on plant strategies wrestle tenacious invasive weed
Cheyenne area rancher Nina Haas walked slowly in the range grass, lush from summer rain, looking down at Dalmatian toadflax plants, and stopped. Something had grabbed her attention, and she went down to one knee for a closer look. “There,”…
Nine-year old girl injured by bison in Yellowstone National Park
According to information provided by officials at Yellowstone National Park, a nine-year old girl was injured on the afternoon of Monday, July 22. The incident took place near Observation Point Trail in the Old Faithful Geyser area where, according to…