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WORLAND - Re-elected county officials will be sworn-in today, at an 8 a.m. ceremony at the Washakie County Courthouse, before the county commission holds the first monthly meeting of 2019. County commissioners Fred Frandson and Terry Wolf, County...

WORLAND – Representative Mike Greear (R-Worland) of house District 27 will be headed back to the state capitol this weekend, to prepare for the 2019 legislative session and continue his role as chairman of the Minerals, Business and Economic D...

THERMOPOLIS – Freshman state Representative John Winter (R-Thermopolis), representing District 28 and elected in November after Nathan Winters vacated the seat to run for state auditor, headed to the state capitol in Cheyenne on Thursday, to particip...

WORLAND – Washakie County Ambulance Director Luke Sypherd, a national certified paramedic with a bachelor’s degree in paramedicine and a master’s degree in emergency management, reported on Wednesday that the county ambulance service answered 963 r...

WASHINGTON, DC – Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) requested on Saturday that her congressional pay be suspended, as long as the current government shutdown is in effect. Although Cheney voted for border wall funding in the House of R...

TEN SLEEP – During a mid-month meeting of the Ten Sleep Town Council on Friday, the town voted to proceed with a project to drain and repair the town’s sewage lagoon, although unexpected engineering costs ballooned the budget for the task. Ear...

WORLAND – At a special budget hearing held by the Washakie County Commission on Tuesday, Bob Vines with the county Witness and Victims Office and Allison Funk with the Department of Family Services explained the best use of $5,000 awarded to the c...

WORLAND – Members of the Army Corps of Engineers met with Washakie County officials on Dec. 12 to kick off a pilot study for a Section 205 request (Flood Damage Reduction), after multiple flooding events in 2017, including major damage due to an i...

CHEYENNE – An $867 billion farm bill passed by the House of Representatives by a vote of 369-47 on Wednesday (the bill passed the Senate in June by a vote of 86-11) effectively legalized industrial hemp production in the United States, pending P...

WASHINGTON, DC – A bill overwhelmingly supported by the U.S. House of Representatives was killed in the Senate on Monday, when Senator Mike Enzi of Wyoming objected, citing the increasing cost of care for U.S. Navy veterans exposed to Agent Orange a...

WORLAND – The Washakie County Fair Board met Monday evening, and passed a motion to eliminate gate fees for the fair, in favor of fees for individual events such as the rodeo and music acts. With a vote of 3-2, the board effectively alleviated a p...

WORLAND – After a 2016 study by the Bighorn Mountain Coalition, county commissioners from Washakie, Johnson, Sheridan and Big Horn counties are seeking two to four members each for a working group to determine best use based on recommendations for c...

WORLAND – On Tuesday area first responders including law enforcement, fire and emergency response teams and ambulance crews, met with the Washakie County Commission to detail plans for a county-wide full-scale exercise to be held this Saturday, to e...

TEN SLEEP – At a regular meeting of the Ten Sleep town council on Tuesday, the town approved a building request from the Ten Sleep school for a new, 5,000 square foot Vocational / Agriculture building, to be located on land owned by the school on Wes...

WORLAND – During a special session of the Washakie County Commission this afternoon, area first responders will meet to detail plans for a county-wide full-scale exercise to be held this Saturday, to enact a hazardous materials event. The Saturday e...

TEN SLEEP – The Town of Ten Sleep will review a project to fix the town’s sewage lagoon at the regular December council meeting on Tuesday, along with town department reports. The town awarded a bid to fix the town’s lagoon, which has breached its o...

WORLAND – A former Worland man is facing six counts of first degree sexual abuse of a minor in Washakie County. The alleged abuse occurred from August of 2014 until September of 2016. Jason Arnold Miller, 42 of Cheyenne, pleaded not guilty in W...

WORLAND – An ongoing investigation by the Washakie County Sheriff’s Office resulted in the arrest of three Worland residents on Sunday and charges brought before the Fifth Judicial Court for conspiring to sell heroin within 500 feet of a local sch...

THERMOPOLIS – The Hot Springs Pioneer Association, founded in 1930 to preserve the history of the Thermopolis region, is currently seeking donations to purchase property adjoining the Hot Springs Museum in Thermopolis, in an attempt to expand the m...

WORLAND – A bill introduced in September by Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) would remove wilderness designations from Lincoln, Sweetwater and Big Horn counties, and effectively restrict the designation of further lands in Wyoming with wilderness c...

WORLAND – The Washakie County Commission met Tuesday for a busy morning session to hear department reports, and heard from Library Board member Terry Livingston on options moving forward to relocate the Washakie County Library from its current l...