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Year: 2025

IDAWY Updates: Thayne Transfer Station

Expansion to be completed late this summer Innovative Waste Management Plans Aim to Enhance Solid Waste Services in Lincoln County and Beyond. Jayson Lower recently shared exciting developments regarding IDAWY and the Thayne Transfer Station during his call into SVI…

Sports Friday Interviews: Jake Hibbard, Keith Kelley and Cole Bagley

During SVI Radio‘s First Bank of Wyoming Sports Friday on January 10, three different guests called into the show. First SVI Media’s host of Star Valley Sports Night, Jake Hibbard, discussed SVHS wrestling and basketball. Keith Kelley, voice of the…

Star Valley Sports Night: January 9, 2025

Jake Hibbard has dropped another episode of Star Valley Sports Night, focused on Braves Wrestling as they head to Rexburg, ID this weekend for the Madison Invite. During the show, Hibbard talks about this year’s squad with Head Coach Eddie…

Barrasso Bill Finishes Border Wall with COVID-19 Funds

U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) introduced legislation Thursday that requires unobligated COVID-19 funds to be used to finish building the wall along the southern border. Senator Barrasso spoke about this bill today on the Senate floor. “Before the Biden administration’s disastrous…

Rules allowing firearms in Capitol adopted by Wyoming officials

By Hannah Shields Wyoming Tribune Eagle Via Wyoming News Exchange   CHEYENNE — Members of the public may soon be allowed to concealed carry firearms within the Wyoming Capitol and its underground extension after the state’s top five elected officials…

Feds decline delisting of grizzlies

By Zac Taylor Powell Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange The Yellowstone area grizzly will not be delisted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Biden administration, as the service instead announced an alternate proposal Wednesday.  Idaho had asked…

TikTok’s fate arrives at Supreme Court in collision of free speech and national security

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In one of the most important cases of the social media age, free speech and national security collide at the Supreme Court on Friday in arguments over the fate of TikTok, a wildly popular digital…

Firefighters battle devastating Los Angeles wildfires as winds calm somewhat

By MANUEL VALDES, HALLIE GOLDEN and JULIE WATSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters began to make progress battling the deadly and devastating fires in the Los Angeles area early Thursday, especially because the ferocious winds that have been driving the fast-moving…

An SVI conversation with James Hobbs, recipient of the 2024 Shikar-Safari Wildlife Officer of the Year

With 17 years of experience in the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and still more with the Idaho Fish and Game Dept. before coming to assignments in Sheridan, Alpine and Lovell, Senior Game Warden James Hobbs was named the 2024…