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WORLAND – Filing for state and local offices began last Thursday and runs through next Friday, June 1, for a variety of offices on the primary ballot, scheduled for voting on Aug. 21. Applicants for state offices must register through the Office o...

TEN SLEEP – A Basin man is facing multiple charges, including evading law enforcement, after a trespassing call in Ten Sleep resulted in an arrest on Monday. At approximately 8 p.m. on Sunday, Washakie County Sheriff deputies responded to a t...

WORLAND – The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a final accident report for a December 2016 airplane crash that killed a Thermopolis man and injured his passenger, both employees with the United States Department of Agriculture. The U...

WORLAND – The Washakie County Commission met for their mid-May meeting on Tuesday, and voted to maintain current salaries for elected county officials, citing overall state budget woes as a reason to not consider raises at this time. According to W...

WORLAND – Filing for state and local offices begins Thursday and runs through June 1, for a variety of offices on the primary ballot, scheduled for voting on Aug. 21. Applicants for state offices must register through the Office of the Secretary o...

WORLAND – After a week of warm weather, area creeks and rivers have experienced a noticeable rise, as snow at higher elevations begins to melt. At the same time, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Riverton reports that w...

TEN SLEEP – Ten Sleep voters chose to re-elect all three council members who were up for vote on Tuesday. Constance Sweeney and Ernie Beckley will return for four-year terms on the council, while Amy Truman will retain her seat for two years. All c...

WORLAND – County, town and city officials and first responders from Washakie and Big Horn counties met on Monday to review flood planning and threats for 2018, and heard from Office of Homeland Security Director Guy Cameron and Deputy Director L...

WORLAND- The Washakie County Commission hosted a sales tax meeting on Tuesday, to help determine the best use for a general one-cent sales tax for seven county entities made eligible for the funding. Representatives from the seven tax-entitled...

WORLAND – Washakie County Commissioners heard concerns from the county Maintenance Department, after damages to the Lighthouse facility, due to a violent episode from an out-of-county patient in April. The seven-bed Lighthouse center run by Cloud P...

THERMOPOLIS – Two attempted murder suspects and one unidentified accomplice made an appearance in Hot Springs County this week, as law enforcement arrested two of the men on Monday, while one remains at large, possibly in the local area. The Riverton...

WORLAND – The former manager of the now-closed Firenze restaurant and club in Worland was sentenced Wednesday on one felony charge of theft, and will serve five years on probation in lieu of 3-5 years in the state penitentiary, for missing revenue t...

WORLAND – Designated the state fish in 1987, the Yellowstone cutthroat trout, a native to Wyoming before settlement and once abundant, is scheduled to be reintroduced to the Absaroka, Beartooth and Big Horn Mountains, but ahead of the measure, G...

WORLAND – The Washakie County Commission met on Tuesday and heard a variety of reports from county agencies, most notably regarding a water project on the Lower Nowood. In the wake of the Town of Ten Sleep formally rejecting a proposal to supply w...

WORLAND – Representatives from the Wyoming State Parks Outdoor Recreation Office hosted a meeting in Worland on Saturday, bringing community leaders and state agency professionals together to evaluate outdoor recreation opportunities in the Big H...

TEN SLEEP – The Washakie County Commission will hold a special public hearing on Tuesday to address changes at the Ten Sleep Public Library, following a major renovation and addition. The meeting will be held at the Ten Sleep Public Library at 6 p.m....

WORLAND – A new species of bug has arrived in Washakie County, and has multiplied to the point that state entomologists and pest control specialists have taken notice. Originating in Asia, where they feed on the elm family of trees, the elm seed b...

WORLAND – Representatives from the Wyoming State Parks Outdoor Recreation Office will be in Worland on Saturday, to host residents and community leaders for a meeting devoted to expanding outdoor recreation opportunities in the Big Horn Basin. ...

WORLAND- The Washakie County Commission will host the last of a set of special tax meetings on Tuesday, to review the results of a recent voter tax survey, to determine the best use for a general one-cent sales tax. The meeting will be held in the...

WORLAND – Three Worland residents are being held on $30,000 bond after a drug bust last week resulted in several felony charges of child endangerment and possession or delivery of methamphetamine. Mirra Garcia, Azia Martinez and Clayton L. M...

BUFFALO – According to a report by The Council for the Big Horn Range (CBHR), and recently submitted to Washakie County Commission Chairman Terry Wolf, the CBHR discovered in late February that the position of Powder River District Ranger for the B...

WORLAND – Wyoming Fifth Judicial District Court Judge Robert E. Skar sentenced a Worland man to five years supervised probation on Wednesday, ending a nearly year-long ordeal related to a stalking case first filed in March 2017. Joshua Vidlock, 3...