Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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WORLAND - After a tough 62-59 loss to the Rocky Mountain Grizzlies Friday night the Worland Warriors matched up against 3A rival, the Powell Panthers, to close out the 2018 Big Horn Basin Shootout boys basketball tournament. Worland's game Saturday afternoon against Powell played out a lot like their game against Rocky Mountain. The Warriors jumped out to a nice lead only to see that lead shrink and eventually lose it. Unlike Friday night the Warriors recaptured the lead from Powell and...
Prison company pursuing Wyoming immigration detention center CASPER (AP) — A private prison company is proposing to build an immigration detention facility in southwest Wyoming. Utah-based Management & Training Corporation approached Uinta County and Evanston officials recently with its proposal to build a center to house about 600 detainees for the Salt Lake City office of the U.S. Department of Immigration and Custom Enforcement. The office serves Utah, Nevada, Idaho and Montana. Many local community leaders support the project for the j...
Woman found dead in Wyoming apartment, suspect detained BASIN (AP) — A 48-year-old man has made his initial court appearance on a charge that he killed a woman in her apartment last week in northern Wyoming. Donald J. Crouse is charged with first-degree murder. Big Horn County Circuit Judge Thomas Harrington on Monday has ordered a public defender to take Crouse’s case. The attorney, Timothy Blatt, was not immediately available for comment. The Lovell Police Department says the body of 49-year-old Carol Jean Barnes, of Cowley, was found Thu...
TEN SLEEP – The Town of Ten Sleep held a work session ahead of their regular monthly meeting on Monday, to discuss a draft letter in an effort to accommodate industrial business within town limits, specifically the Ten Sleep Brewing Company. Established just outside of Ten Sleep in 2013, the Ten Sleep Brewing Company, looking toward rapid expansion, is considering a move inside the town limits of Ten Sleep, which would require a change to current wastewater considerations for the town, while at the same time bringing needed revenue. In N...
CHEYENNE (AP) — Wyoming recorded an above-average number of wildfires in 2017 but the state escaped the large conflagrations that plagued other western states, according to state officials. “Compared to everybody around us, we had a fairly moderate season as far as large fires,” state forester Bill Crapser said. “We didn’t get that many large fires.” Wyoming recorded about 760 wildfires on federal, state, county and private lands last year, he said. Those fires burned at least 331 square miles (857 square kilometers) of forest and prairie acr...
=WORLAND – During the 2017 fire season there were 211,840 acres or 331 square miles burned. Washakie County’s share in that was around 7,143 acres or 11.16 square miles. Worland Volunteer Fire Department Fire Chief Chris Kocher stated that the fire department responded to about 50 fires each burning anywhere from .10 acres to over 3,000 acres. The Banjo Fire was the largest in the area burning 3,367 acres. According to the Worland Fire Department Facebook page the Banjo Fire was a very fast moving fire, rapidly moving in three different dir...
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Longtime Clark resident, Cathy L. Fraser McGregor age 65, passed away in the morning hours of January 6, 2018 after a longtime sickness. Cathy was born in Powell on February 22, 1952. Cathy grew up in Worland and graduated from Worland High School in 1970. An overachiever, Cathy was heavily involved in school activities, and completed her "God and County" merits with the Girl Scouts while working at the Center of the West Girl Scout Camp south of Ten Sleep. Cathy graduated from Northwest... Full story
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