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The council touched again on the future of the Moorcroft landfill at the meeting on Monday night. HDR Engineering’s Heath Turbiville reported on two possible funding avenues that will be opening for application for landfill projects in the near...

A Moorcroft man will serve up to ten years for aggravated assault and battery after allegedly ramming a woman’s truck into a power pole. On April 17, 2020, a Moorcroft Police Officer was dispatched for a domestic violence call and advised that a...

Gillette woman, former CCH consultant, ordered to prison and $172K restitution GILLETTE (WNE) — A Gillette woman and former Campbell County Health public relations consultant, Alexa Kinney, was sentenced to nearly three years in prison and ordered...

Pine Haven’s planning and zoning committee endorsed approval by the council of the C Bar Subdivision preliminary plat after a public hearing last week. However, with site concerns still to be addressed including street names, possible realignment...

Three local candidates have thrown their names in the hat for the upcoming elections, aiming to vie for Crook County’s two seats in the Wyoming State Legislature. Senator Ogden Driskill announced he will stand again for Senate District 1, saying...

Deputies rescue drunk party goers CODY (WNE) — An evening gathering in Badger Basin resulted in a possible life-saving rescue by Park County deputies who’d spent almost five hours on the scene to ensure the many partygoers were OK. According to...

May 15-21 is the 47th annual celebration of EMS Week. EMS week is the time to learn and understand more about and honor those front-line heroes dedicated to providing emergency medicine care. In the years of 2020 and 2021, COVID–19 took the focus...

Grizzly relocated to Sunlight area CODY (WNE) –   After consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department captured and relocated an adult male grizzly bear on May 4. According to a G&F news release, the...

Speeding – Bich Tran, Hesperia, CA, 90/75, $135; Vladislav Grishchenko, Snohomish, WA, 100/70, $210; Steven A. Turbiville, Spearfish, SD, 94/75, $205; Braden Yackley, Spearfish, SD, 55/30, $295; Edgardo Ruiz-Canseco, Gillette, WY, 91/80, $115;...

Sticking close to home again when making his decision, Governor Mark Gordon has selected Crook County Deputy Attorney Lynda R. Bush as the Sixth Judicial District’s next Circuit Court Judge. “I want to thank Governor Gordon for the honor of this...

SHERIDAN — The Bighorn National Forest will soon act on dispersed camping solutions brought forward two years ago by the Big Horn Mountain Coalition Dispersed Camping Task Force. The suggestions — which range from requiring a dispersed camping...

Man sentenced to 70 days in vehicular homicide SHERIDAN (WNE) — Sheridan County Circuit Court Judge Shelley Cundiff sentenced Todd A. Kohler to 70 days in jail, one year of supervised probation and 230 hours of community service education on...

On April 25, police were requested to do a welfare check on an individual. Officer made contact and spoke with the individual. No concerns, officer cleared. On April 26, a cell phone was found in the roadway between Town Hall and Dewey’s Place....

Property owners Greg Cottrell and Robert Chamberlin, development engineer Chris Lovas of Lovas Engineering and realtor Pat Avery met with Pine Haven’s planning and zoning committee last week to present and discuss the preliminary plat of the C Bar...

CHEYENNE — Parents who say their daughters were victims in a blackmail case involving a Burns High School student say the school district has been slow to respond to the incident, keeping the student in classes and in extracurricular activities...