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WORLAND – Voters across the state have the opportunity to request an absentee ballot, starting today, in advance of the general election on Nov. 6. In addition to candidates for public office, Washakie county voters will be able to vote for a c...

WORLAND – The Washakie County Commission met Tuesday to further discuss recommendations for one county wilderness area, and ultimately approved the Washakie County’s Wyoming Public Lands Initiative (WPLI) Advisory Committee’s recommendation for t...

WORLAND – Washakie County Commissioners heard concerns from the county Maintenance Department, Sheriff’s Office, County Attorney’s Office and Lighthouse staff after damages to the Lighthouse facility, due to several episodes from out-of-county patie...

WORLAND – Firefighting crews from several agencies are on the scene of an estimated 2,500-acre fire roughly 30 miles south of Worland, (7 miles north of Thermopolis) on Black Mountain Road, affecting both private and public lands. First reported a...

WORLAND – The Washakie County Fair Board met Monday evening to approve vouchers and discuss attendance and maintenance issues at the 2018 county fair. Worland-Ten Sleep Chamber of Commerce members, along with Director Cathy Orchard, were in a...

WORLAND – A ballot petition to allow Wyoming voters to join 19 states in overturning Citizens United is coming to close, with only a few weeks until the petition has to be turned over to the Secretary of State for the state of Wyoming. Wyoming P...

TEN SLEEP – The Ten Sleep Town Council held a public meeting during their regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, to hear public comments before the first reading of an ordinance that would effectively annex property into the town limits. The .789 a...

WORLAND – Washakie County Commissioners moved ahead on two proposals made by the county’s Wyoming Public Lands Initiative working group. The original goal of the WPLI group was to reach a consensus as to the use of the Wilderness Study Areas in the...

WORLAND – During the first meeting of the Washakie County Commission for September, the county agreed to provide matching funds to a grant to purchase enhanced security devices for the Fifth Judicial District Circuit Court facility. As presented b...

WORLAND – Washakie County commissioners will meet Tuesday to hear department reports, and review recommendations made by the county’s Wyoming Public Lands Initiative working group with Hot Springs County commissioners. The original goal of the WPL...

WORLAND – On Thursday, Washakie County Youth Alternatives Administrator Sheri Gunderson was notified that the county was one of three state recipients of a national Drug–Free Communities Support Program grant, awarded through the Substance Abuse and...

WORLAND — With only one day left to file, local school board races see few new filings. For Washakie County School District No. 1 (Worland), current board members Terri Logan, Duane Whitlock and Don Bryant have filed for re-election. Anna V...

WORLAND – Six candidates for three wards in Worland qualified for the November ballot after Tuesday’s primary election, thanks to a majority of write-in votes from city voters. The Office of County Clerk issued certified letters of notification to...

WORLAND – Washakie County Commissioners met Tuesday to hear department reports, and reviewed recommendations made by the county’s Wyoming Public Lands Initiative working group. Attended by only a few members of the WPLI working group, Com...

WORLAND – Washakie County Commissioners Fred Frandson and Terry Wolf hold their places on the November ballot, after both incumbents beat challenger Christapher Godfrey in Tuesday’s primary election. Frandson received 1,992 total votes, Wolf 1,5...

WORLAND – Washakie County Commissioners will meet today to review recommendations made by the county’s Wyoming Public Lands Initiative working group, with a public comment period and the commission’s final recommendation to follow. The goal of the W...

WORLAND – Washakie County Commissioners met Tuesday to review the tax levies for 2018-19, and consider a plan to restrict two county roads to local traffic only, enforced by ordinance. As explained by Commissioners Aaron Anderson and Fred F...

WORLAND – The Washakie County Commission will meet today to review department reports, evaluate tax levies, and hear from one member regarding recommendations for county wilderness areas. Washakie County’s Wyoming Public Lands Initiative (WPLI) Adv...

TEN SLEEP – The Ten Sleep Town Council will meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. at town hall to hear regular department reports, report on an upcoming sales tax initiative and get an update on the town’s ongoing U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) project to...

WORLAND — Washakie County’s Wyoming Public Lands Initiative (WPLI) Advisory Committee met Wednesday at the Washakie County Extension Office, in a final move to end a year-long consensus process, and send to the commissioners three rec...

WORLAND -Washakie County’s Wyoming Public Lands Initiative (WPLI) Advisory Committee presented the public with their recommendations for the county’s Wilderness Study Areas (WSAs), last month, and the public comment period officially came to an end...

WORLAND – A series of local fires and smoke reports kept area firefighters busy this weekend, most notably on two fires south of Worland. Bureau of Land Management Bighorn/Wind River District spokesperson Sarah Beckwith said that the 2,448-acre P...