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The longtime operator of Star Plunge aquatic center in Hot Springs State Park has sued the state after Wyoming State Parks selected a new concessionaire to run the hot-spring facility. The complaint, filed Aug. 5 in Laramie County District Court, accuses the Wyoming Department of State Parks of exceeding its authority and violating regulations when it selected the new operator this spring. That selection essentially evicts the Luehne family from Star Plunge, a popular Wyoming tourist attraction...
Jackson, Wyo., August 22, 2024 — The Fish Creek Fire was discovered on Friday, August 16, in a remote area of the North Fork Fish Creek drainage, approximately 7 miles southwest of Togwotee Pass. The lightning-caused fire is currently 7,798-acres in size burning in heavy timber, litter, understory and standing dead trees. On August 21, 2024, a Complex Incident Management Team (CIMT) was ordered for the Fish Creek Fire. A CIMT is mobilized during complex emergency incidents to provide a command-and-control infrastructure in order to manage t...
Federal document released Thursday blends all four ‘alternatives’ in effort to heed public and cooperators’ requests after draft plans blew up. A year after a conservation-heavy draft management plan for 3.6 million acres of public land in southwest Wyoming ignited intense opposition, the Bureau of Land Management has issued a finalized plan seeking more of a balance between landscape protection and development. The final environmental impact statement outlining BLM’s proposed Resource Management Plan for the Rock Springs Field Office was rel...
CHEYENNE (WNE) - Gov. Mark Gordon will lead a special meeting of the Wyoming State Building Commission (SBC) to hear public comment regarding reconsideration of the SBC Rules prohibiting firearms within public areas of the Capitol and Capitol Extension. The special meeting of the SBC reflects the governor's promise to take action on concealed carry rules for state executive branch facilities. The meeting will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday in the Capitol Extension Conference Center Auditorium,...
Writer’s submissions appeared to have been manufactured by AI POWELL — A reporter at the Cody Enterprise resigned on Friday, after the Powell Tribune confronted him with evidence indicating that he’d fabricated some of the quotes that appeared in several of his stories. In an interview just prior to his resignation, Aaron Pelczar conceded that the quotes may have been made up by an artificial intelligence tool he was using to help write his articles. To date, seven people — ranging from Gov. Mark Gordon to the victim of an alleged crime ...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – In response to a request for assistance from Texas, Governor Mark Gordon announced that Wyoming law-enforcement personnel will be deploying to the southern border with Mexico. The deployment of 10 Wyoming Highway Patrol (WHP) troopers later this month is in response to an Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) request from Texas Governor Greg Abbott and is being coordinated through the Wyoming Office of Homeland Security (WOHS). During the 14-day deployment, the WHP troopers will provide law enforcement and emergency a...
A boy swims in the Star Plunge in May 2024. (Katie Klingsporn/WyoFile) Star Plunge owner Roland Luehne stands in front of historic signs decorating a wall at the aquatic facility. (Katie Klingsporn/WyoFile) In a state where generations of families grew up visiting the pools, the issue has touched off debates pitting nostalgia and local-business values against modernity and outsider ideas. By Katie Klingsporn, WyoFile.com HOT SPRINGS STATE PARK-The tang of sulfur drifted from mineral springs...
Wyoming State Highway 22, Teton Pass will reopen this Friday with an interim detour around the Big Fill landslide at milepost 12.8. Wyoming Department of Transportation officials began work on a detour around the site immediately after its collapse on June 8. Crews from Evans Construction and WYDOT personnel have been working around the clock for the last three weeks to construct a paved, two-lane detour to connect the severed communities in the Teton Valley. "We saw the viral video of the...
Via Wyoming News Exchange LANDER - Wildlife officials are warning of a disease that is killing rabbits in Wyoming, and are seeking the public's help in identifying dead rabbits to monitor the spread of the disease. Called Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus 2 (RHDV2), the disease targets all of Wyoming's lagomorphs, including game and nongame species such as cottontail rabbits, jack rabbits and pygmy rabbits, explained Jessica Jennings-Gaines, Game and Fish wildlife disease specialist. "Any rabbit...
Via Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — The Casper Police Department has released bodycam footage of the fatal June 6 encounter between three police officers and Army veteran Trae Spurlock. The incident left Spurlock dead in his home at The Ridge at Blackmore Apartments. The video shows a tense confrontation between the officers and Spurlock, who was seated on his balcony with a rifle when officers arrived at the scene. The officers were responding to a domestic disturbance call, according to a previous release from the Casper Police Department. A...
Via Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — Wind turbines, which produce some of the cheapest energy on the grid, have long been an environmental darling. But in recent years the wind industry is catching blowback for its end-of-life footprint as decommissioned blades– some of them longer than the wings of a BOEING 747 airplane–are piling up in landfills across America. The Casper Regional Landfill has interned more than 1,200 blades since 2020 and is slated to receive hundreds more in the coming years. As utilities nation-wide double down on wind...
Plan hasn’t been released for Teton Pass temporary fix, fueling speculation and questions from the public. Via Wyoming News Exchange JACKSON — Bob Hammond has heard the criticism: The Wyoming Department of Transportation is moving too fast as it rebuilds the part of Teton Pass that collapsed last week. But WYDOT’s Jackson-based engineer sees speed as a necessity. As Hammond and a team of WYDOT geologists and contractors from Evans Construction and HK Contractors move earth around the “Big...
From Wyoming News Exchange newspapers Wyoming startup businesses get help CASPER (WNE) — Five Wyoming companies have been selected to participate in Microsoft’s “gBEta” business accelerator program, which helps startup companies ramp up promising concepts quickly with access to coaches, mentors and investors. In a nod to the popular television series Shark Tank, startup founders will pitch their companies to investors and the public during a showcase event from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Aug. 2 at Frontier Brewing. The gBETA program is funded by Micr...
United States flag facts and handling etiquette The United States flag was first imagined after the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The Continental Congress authorized creation of the first national flag on June 14, 1777. It was decided that the flag should have 13 stripes, alternating red and white, to represent the original 13 colonies, and that the new union be represented by 13 white stars in a blue field to signify a "new constellation." Francis Hopkinson, one of the...
On June 19th, 1865, Union troops marched into Galveston Bay, Texas with news of the Emancipation Proclamation, liberating more than 250,000 people enslaved in that state. Despite President Lincoln's issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1st, 1863, freedom for the enslaved was not immediate. It took more than two years of war to free all of the people held in bondage in the rebellious states. Meanwhile, people enslaved in the border states that remained loyal to the Union through the...
PINEDALE - Approximately 200 folks were on the ground in the unincorporated community of Daniel in Sublette County on Sunday, May 26 for the planned Hogs for Hope ceremonial check presentation scheduled to take place in front of the Green River Bar. People from across the United States attended the event, billed as a peaceful protest, including from Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Iowa, Maine, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Texas, Colorado, California and beyond. 'Protecting their town' Starting the...
SUNDANCE — The case of the defaced herd is moving up to District Court following a preliminary hearing last week, at which the prosecution argued that restoring the cows to their previous condition cost the alleged victim thousands of dollars. Two ranchers are accused of using bleach to paint markings, including drawings of penises, on a total of 189 cows and six bulls belonging to their neighbor. Father-son duo Patrick Sean and Tucker Carroll claimed their actions were intended to bring their neighbor’s attention to the problem of broken fen...
The Geek Squad scam is making the rounds again: A Wyoming citizen reported that he received multiple invoices from The Geek Squad for hundreds of dollars…despite never having had an account with them. CyberWyoming note: Even if you have an account with The Geek Squad, either call or access your account through their portal after looking up the address in a web search. Never click on an attached invoice or click a link from an email. Memorial Day Scams: As we spend the weekend commemorating all those who lost their lives serving our country, r...
RIVERTON — State troopers and regional law enforcement agents staged barricades and a decontamination unit at Riverton City Hall and stood poised to intervene if the dozens of death threats lodged against state wildlife officials were realized. And while speakers filed up to the podium and zoomed into the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission’s meeting in Riverton Wednesday with decorum, the topic of the day was one of violence – what’s been described as the torture of a young female wolf allegedly run down by Cody Roberts earlier this month, its mo...
As incident impacts ripple worldwide, state tourism agency is also temporarily suspending ‘all ads related to wildlife experience.’ Wyoming’s state tourism agency has suspended social media posts and paid ads relating to wildlife amid the worldwide furor over the wolf abuse and killing in Daniel. The Wyoming Office of Tourism, also known as Travel Wyoming, alerted unknown recipients to the social media suspension in a letter obtained by WyoFile. “I know you are all well aware of the public criticism over the wolf abuse by a residen...
WYDOT on Friday announced plans for a $285 million overpass over Jackson Hole's city core, citing long-standing complaints from every driver who has ever passed through the tourist spot. The overpass would begin near the edge of the National Elk Refuge on the outskirts of town and arch over the city's downtown, allowing drivers to steer clear of traffic snarls and snow bunnies crossing the busy intersections leading into Jackson's core. The overpass would then merge on Teton Pass Highway just be...
The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Wyoming announced today that federal authorities will not pursue criminal charges against the Wind River Police Department officer involved in the fatal shooting of Terrance Skye Posey of Ethete, Wyoming, on August 11, 2022. This incident occurred on the Wind River Indian Reservation and was thoroughly investigated by the FBI. Prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office and the Civil Rights Division's Criminal Section of the Department of...
Pierce Brosnan, 70, of Malibu, California, was fined $500, and required to pay a $1,000 community service payment to the Yellowstone Forever Geological Fund, a $30 court processing fee, and a $10 special assessment. U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephanie A. Hambrick imposed the sentence on Mar. 14, in Mammoth, Wyoming. Mr. Brosnan pleaded guilty to foot travel in a thermal area. According to court documents, on or about Nov. 1, 2023, Brosnan uploaded pictures to his Instagram page of himself standing on a Yellowstone National Park thermal feature at M...
Small-business owners will have the opportunity to learn how to get a first small-business loan request approved Thursday, March 7. Devan Costa-Cargill will lead a Wyoming Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Network workshop titled “The Inside Scoop: How to Get Your First Small Business Loan Request Approved” from 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m. in the Washakie County Library Worland Branch, located at 801 Big Horn Ave. To register, go https://www.wysbdc.org/workshop.aspx?ekey=50440004&nocache=y Registration is free, and attendees are encouraged to b...
Hacker’s Brief 3/1/2024 Hang Up & Verify: A citizen received a suspicious call appearing to be from their boss, indicated by the correctly displayed name and phone number. However, upon answering, they were prompted to press a number to speak to the caller, which raised suspicions. After confirming with their boss, who denied making the call, it became evident that this was likely a scam attempt. Notably, the boss had used her phone at three airports the day before, but had not connected her phone to Wi-Fi. CyberWyoming Note: Exercise caution w...