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Wyoming’s 2023 teacher of the year named

September 23, 2022 10:53 AM News Team

A physical science, physics and advanced chemistry teacher at Newcastle High School was named Wyoming’s 2023 Teacher of the Year in a surprise…

Scenic road striping project completed

September 21, 2022 9:53 AM News Team

The one-way Scenic Drive near Jenny Lake reopened on Tuesday after being temporary closed for a road striping project to improve the comfort and…

Gordon names Wyoming Innovation Partnership Executive Director

September 22, 2022 11:57 AM News Team

Governor Mark Gordon has announced Lauren Schoenfeld has been selected to serve as the Wyoming Innovation Partnership (WIP) Executive…

The search for a missing woman in Wyoming partly revolves around a mysterious 55-gallon drum

September 17, 2022 9:29 AM CNN

By Faith Karimi, CNN The console of Stacy Koester’s black Audi is stashed with items not found in most cars: Blue latex gloves. Allergy…

Prescribed fire in the Upper Gros Ventre drainage

September 19, 2022 10:12 AM News Team

Ignitions and mop-up operations should last between four to 10 days and could start between the end of September and middle of October.…

Flu vaccine to be offered at Teton County Health Department beginning Sept. 26

September 19, 2022 9:00 AM News Team

Teton County Health Department (TCHD) officials are strongly encouraging people in the community to get a flu vaccine as it is the first and most…

Flaming Gorge falls as drought felt higher up Colorado River

September 16, 2022 2:17 PM Associated Press

Tony Valdez wasn’t worried about being left high and dry when he bought Buckboard Marina three years ago, but that’s changed with the receding waters…

WDE releases 2021-22 school performance ratings

September 16, 2022 9:59 AM News Team

The Wyoming Department of Education (WDE) has released its school accountability results for the 2021-22 school year after a two-year hiatus from…

Yellowstone visitation statistics for August 2022

September 15, 2022 11:04 AM News Team

Yellowstone National Park hosted 582,211 recreation visits in August…

Teton County/Jackson Recreation Center to temporarily close to public this week

September 15, 2022 9:34 AM News Team

The Teton County/Jackson Parks and Recreation Rec Center will temporarily close to the public beginning this…

Pratt Road reopens after fuel spill

September 14, 2022 2:35 PM News Team

A traffic accident has caused a fuel leak on a section of Pratt…

WDE releases 2022 assessment results

September 14, 2022 9:56 AM News Team

Results for the fourth administration of the Wyoming Test of Proficiency and Progress (WY-TOPP) are now…

Man wanted for attempted murder turns himself in

September 13, 2022 12:17 PM News Team

After evading a law enforcement search, a man wanted for attempted murder turned himself…

Aerial cheatgrass treatment to take place across Halfmoon Lake area this week

September 13, 2022 2:25 PM News Team

The Pinedale Ranger District, Sublette County Weed and Pest, and additional partners will conduct aerial cheatgrass treatment on national forest…

Registration encouraged for suicide prevention symposium

September 13, 2022 10:03 AM News Team

The free two-day event begins at 8 a.m. on September 26 at the Little America Resort in…

US Army Corps of Engineers to haul rocks to county stockpile on Snake River Levee

September 12, 2022 9:03 AM News Team

The public is encouraged to use caution as trucks hauling rocks will be in and out of the area of Emily’s Pond on the Snake River Levee for the…

Sexually transmitted infections an increasing concern in Wyoming

September 11, 2022 10:00 AM News Team

With sexually transmitted infections (STIs) an increasing concern across the state, the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) is encouraging prevention…

Gov. Gordon to convene mental health summit in October

September 11, 2022 8:00 AM News Team

The summit is free of charge and open to…

9/11 events in Jackson

September 10, 2022 2:00 PM News Team

Jackson Hole Fire/EMS is inviting the public to join them Sunday, September 11 at a variety of events to help honor and remember the first responders…

Sixth Annual Passport Sunday event set Oct. 2

September 10, 2022 12:00 PM News Team

The Teton County Clerk of District Court is encouraging travelers to submit passport applications well in advance of potential 2023…

September is National Preparedness Month

September 10, 2022 9:00 AM News Team

While no one can anticipate the unexpected, everyone can take one or more of the actions below to make themselves and their loved ones safer when…

St. John’s Health names new CEO

September 9, 2022 3:43 PM News Team

St. John’s Health (SJH), Jackson, Wyo. announced Jeff Sollis will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer, effective January 2,…

LOTOJA Bike Race volunteers needed

September 9, 2022 9:58 AM News Team

The LOTOJA Bike Race, which takes riders on a 205-mile ride from Logan, Utah and finishes at Teton Village, will pass through Jackson on Saturday.…

WARNING: Yellowstone’s bull elk can be extremely dangerous during the rut

September 7, 2022 3:38 PM News Team

Yellowstone National Park officials report the elk rut has begun in…

Sage grouse lek attendance remains steady

September 7, 2022 2:00 PM News Team

Sage grouse lek attendance remains steady according to data from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department lek counts this spring.…

Grand Teton fire danger increases to high

September 7, 2022 10:36 AM News Team

Teton Interagency fire managers have elevated the fire danger rating to high for Grand Teton National Park, the Bridger-Teton National Forest and the…

Very high fire danger in Yellowstone National Park 

September 6, 2022 2:30 PM News Team

The parkwide fire danger level for Yellowstone is now very…

Planned closures to being after Labor Day in Grand Teton

September 4, 2022 10:00 AM News Team

Five planned temporary closures will take place after Labor Day in Grand Teton National Park as construction and road improvements projects get…

Yellowstone releases new videos, photos of ongoing road repairs

September 1, 2022 4:25 PM News Team

Yellowstone National Park released new videos and photos of the ongoing road repairs on the North and Northeast entrance roads following damage…

Paving operations in Snake River Canyon will cause delays

September 1, 2022 11:17 AM News Team

The Wyoming Department of Transportation and contract crews from Avail Valley Construction began paving a wearing course Thursday on US 89 through…

Plague confirmed in Albany County cat

September 1, 2022 11:31 AM News Team

Laboratory testing has recently confirmed a rural Albany County cat died of plague, according to the Wyoming Department of Health…

Spring Gulch Road now open

September 1, 2022 11:17 AM News Team

UPDATE 9/2/22: Spring Gulch Road is now open to all…

Gordon seeks to protect Wyoming’s interests in court challenges of June oil and gas lease sale

September 1, 2022 6:00 AM News Team

Governor Mark Gordon has announced Wyoming is taking legal action to protect the oil and gas…

Overdose antidote orders offered to Wyoming groups

September 1, 2022 10:00 AM News Team

Free orders of a temporary opioid overdose antidote known as NARCAN® are once again available for Wyoming groups through the Wyoming Department of…

Yellowstone to suspend Tower Junction to Slough Creek visitor vehicle day-use tickets

August 31, 2022 11:09 AM News Team

Beginning Sept. 8, Yellowstone National Park will no longer require visitors to obtain a day-use ticket to drive the 6-mile road corridor between…

Family of fallen U.S. Marine re-files defamation lawsuit against Alec Baldwin in New York

August 31, 2022 10:43 AM CNN Newsource

The family of fallen U.S. Marine Rylee J. McCollum has re-filed their lawsuit against actor Alec Baldwin for defamation in New York, according to a…

Missing woman located

August 31, 2022 10:27 AM News Team

UPDATE 11:30 a.m. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office reports 30-year-old Adelle Marie Columbus has been…

Bear activity increasing on Moose-Wilson Road

August 30, 2022 10:00 AM News Team

Bears have begun to gather within the Moose-Wilson Corridor to forage on seasonally-abundant, natural foods, and Grand Teton National Park officials…

Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper arrested

August 30, 2022 5:37 PM News Team

On Tuesday, the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper.…

Yellowstone’s wildfire season has begun

August 30, 2022 5:01 PM News Team

Wildfire season has begun in Yellowstone National…

DEQ 2022 school bus replacement program in progress

August 30, 2022 12:16 PM News Team

The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (WYDEQ) is providing $843,660 of grant funding for early replacement of diesel school buses through…

Second monkeypox case identified in Wyoming resident

August 29, 2022 2:44 PM News Team

The Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) is announcing the state’s second monkeypox case has been identified in a Teton County…

Liz Cheney in 2024? Deep skepticism emerges in key states

August 29, 2022 9:52 AM Associated Press

As the sun set in Wyoming, U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney described her blowout loss as the beginning of a more consequential step in her political career.…

Spring Gulch Road to close for continued improvements

August 29, 2022 9:17 AM News Team

Motorists should anticipate using an alternative route this week as Teton County continues an improvement project to the newly paved section of…

Teton County/Jackson Parks and Recreation Rec Center to close this week

August 27, 2022 2:00 PM News Team

The Teton County/Jackson Parks and Recreation Rec Center will close to the public early this week for routine…

Gov. Gordon’s education initiative prepares recommendations for review

August 26, 2022 11:34 AM News Team

Governor Mark Gordon’s education initiative has completed its statewide listening sessions and is currently preparing a series of policy…

Powell: Fed could keep lifting rates sharply ‘for some time’

August 26, 2022 9:45 AM Associated Press

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a stark message Friday: The Fed will likely impose more large interest rate hikes in coming months and…

Climate change alters life at Fed’s Jackson Hole conference

August 25, 2022 1:01 PM Associated Press

When officials of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City sought a location for an annual economic symposium in 1981, they chose Jackson Hole,…

Moose Fire mapped at 96,445 acres

August 25, 2022 11:25 AM News Team

The human caused Moose Fire burning west and south of North Fork has burned 96,445 acres and is 38%…

Inflation’s harsh realities on display as Fed officials meet

August 25, 2022 10:19 AM Associated Press

A half-hour drive or so from the resort where the high priests of international finance — leading economists and central bank officials — have…

JHMR names new vice president of marketing

August 25, 2022 9:00 AM News Team

Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR) announced Andrew Way has been hired as the vice president of…

Wyoming’s first monkeypox case identified

August 22, 2022 11:03 AM News Team

The Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) is announcing the first monkeypox case in a Wyoming resident has been identified in Laramie…

Cleanup continues at site of Yellowstone park gasoline spill

August 22, 2022 3:13 PM Associated Press

Cleanup continued Monday after a fuel pup trailer rolled onto its side in Yellowstone National Park last week and spilled gasoline, park officials…

National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day

August 21, 2022 8:00 AM News Team

This Sunday, August 21, 2022, is National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness…

Do you know how to protect your pet in emergencies?

August 20, 2022 10:00 AM News Team

In the event of a wildfire, earthquake, house fire or other emergency, would you know what to do to protect your pet?…

Preventing impaired driving crashes

August 20, 2022 8:00 AM News Team

Drunk driving is dangerous and can lead to serious consequences, including…

Fuel truck rolls over on Highway 191 in Yellowstone

August 19, 2022 4:41 PM News Team

In the early morning hours Friday, a fuel tanker truck lost control and rolled over near mile marker 16 on US Highway 191, a section of highway that…

Wyoming seeks to expedite case on challenge to abortion ban

August 19, 2022 12:28 PM Associated Press

Wyoming’s attorney general’s office wants the state Supreme Court to take on a lower court lawsuit contesting a state ban on abortion in nearly all…

Governor Gordon joined by other governors in pushing back against EPA overreach

August 19, 2022 4:07 PM News Team

Governor Gordon and six other governors representing states included in the Southwest Power Pool (SPP), are deeply concerned over the consequences…

Part of a foot, in a shoe, spotted in Yellowstone hot spring

August 18, 2022 11:45 AM Associated Press

Yellowstone National Park officials are investigating after a park employee spotted part of a foot, in a shoe, floating in a hot spring in the…

Cheney ponders 2024 bid after losing Wyoming GOP primary

August 17, 2022 9:37 AM Associated Press

Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney was increasingly open on Wednesday about considering a 2024 presidential campaign after soundly losing a Republican primary…

Yellowstone Revealed commemorates 150 Years of Yellowstone

August 18, 2022 9:51 AM News Team

Yellowstone National Park is honored to host Yellowstone Revealed, a collaborative effort with Mountain Time Arts and numerous Tribal Nations, to…

Wind energy boom and golden eagles collide in the US West

August 17, 2022 11:10 AM Associated Press

The rush to build wind farms to combat climate change is colliding with preservation of one of the U.S. West’s most spectacular predators — the…

6 takeaways from primaries in Wyoming and Alaska

August 17, 2022 10:08 AM CNN Newsource

Here are six takeaways from Tuesday’s contests in Wyoming and…

Trump foe Liz Cheney defeated in Wyoming GOP primary

August 16, 2022 8:27 PM Associated Press

Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, Donald Trump’s fiercest Republican adversary in Congress, was defeated in a GOP primary Tuesday, falling to a rival backed…

Gov. Gordon wins Wyoming GOP primary in bid for 2nd term

August 16, 2022 9:06 PM Associated Press

Mark Gordon wins Republican nomination for governor in Wyoming primary…

Livingston wins Democratic nomination for Wyoming governor

August 16, 2022 9:20 PM Associated Press

Retired U.S. Bureau of Land Management employee Theresa Livingston, of Worland, defeated retired cabinetmaker and perennial candidate Rex Wilde, of…

GreyBull wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Wyoming’s at-large Congressional District

August 16, 2022 9:25 PM Associated Press

Lynnette GreyBull won the Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Wyoming’s at-large Congressional…

Wyoming Primary Election results

August 16, 2022 7:26 PM News Team

View Wyoming Primary Election results…

Cheney braces for loss as Trump tested in Wyoming and Alaska

August 16, 2022 7:25 PM Associated Press

Polls closed across Wyoming Tuesday night as Rep. Liz Cheney, a leader in the Republican resistance to former President Donald Trump, fought to…

Several statewide offices contested in Wyoming GOP primary

August 16, 2022 11:08 AM Associated Press

Here’s a look at the races for Wyoming’s five statewide elected…

WYDOT will be striping in town square

August 16, 2022 10:34 AM News Team

Commuters to and from Jackson may start noticing touched up pavement markings and sign improvements starting…

6 things to watch in Wyoming and Alaska elections

August 16, 2022 10:17 AM CNN Newsource

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign to purge the Republican Party of his opponents could reach its most dramatic moment of the 2022 midterm…

Cheney braces for loss as Trump tested in Wyoming and Alaska

August 16, 2022 9:55 AM Associated Press

Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, a leader in the Republican resistance to former President Donald Trump, is fighting to save her seat in the U.S. House on…

Yellowstone conducts 2022 commercial vehicle safety inspections

August 15, 2022 2:54 PM News Team

Yellowstone National Park rangers are partnering with state and federal transportation officials to conduct safety evaluations of commercial vehicles…

What to watch: Cheney in trouble while Palin eyes comeback

August 15, 2022 9:57 AM Associated Press

Elections in Wyoming and Alaska on Tuesday could relaunch the political career of a former Republican star and effectively end the career of another…

Cheney and Murkowski: Trump critics facing divergent futures

August 15, 2022 9:52 AM Associated Press

They hail from their states’ most prominent Republican families. They have been among the GOP’s sharpest critics of former President Donald Trump.…

Teton County to perform annual pathways sealcoating

August 14, 2022 10:00 AM News Team

Teton County will be performing annual pathways sealcoating during the week of August 15 – August 19.…

Pipeline break spills 45,000 gallons of diesel in Wyoming

August 12, 2022 12:27 PM Associated Press

A diesel pipeline in Wyoming owned by a company that’s being sued by federal prosecutors over previous spills in two other states cracked open and…

Grand Teton rangers conduct 3 major rescues in less than 24 hours

August 11, 2022 10:39 AM News Team

Grand Teton National Park Rangers conducted three major search and rescue operations within 24 hours this…

Limited, targeted vaccines to prevent monkeypox available in Wyoming

August 11, 2022 10:53 AM News Team

Vaccines meant to help prevent monkeypox are now available on a limited, targeted basis across the state, according to the Wyoming Department of…

Appeals court: Out-of-state petitioners can work in Montana

August 10, 2022 5:51 PM Associated Press

A law that said only Montana residents can gather signatures to qualify initiatives for the state ballot is unconstitutional, a panel of the 9th U.S.…

Idaho-Wyoming natural gas pipeline needs environmental study

August 10, 2022 5:45 PM Associated Press

U.S. officials won’t approve a natural gas pipeline from Idaho to Wyoming until additional environmental studies are…

Abortion to remain legal in Wyoming while lawsuit proceeds

August 10, 2022 5:39 PM Associated Press

Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming while a lawsuit that contests a ban on the procedure in nearly all cases moves ahead, a judge ruled…

New WSGS map depicts Wyoming’s precambrian basement

August 10, 2022 11:24 AM News Team

The Wyoming State Geological Survey (WSGS) published a new map depicting the structural configuration of the Precambrian basement in Wyoming.…

Grand Teton fire risk now moderate

August 10, 2022 11:16 AM News Team

Teton Interagency Fire managers have adjusted the fire danger rating to moderate for Grand Teton National Park, Bridger-Teton National Forest, and…

Feedback wanted on final design features for climbing wall

August 10, 2022 9:38 AM News Team

The first indoor rock climbing wall since 2014 in Teton County is coming to the Teton County/Jackson Parks and Recreation Department (TCJPRD) as part…