Wyoming reports 26 more COVID deaths, a new daily record
Wyoming health officials said on Monday that 26 more people have died because of COVID-19, setting a new daily record for deaths for the disease in…
Continue ReadingWyoming health officials said on Monday that 26 more people have died because of COVID-19, setting a new daily record for deaths for the disease in…
Continue ReadingHealth officials in Wyoming have reported an increase of 742 confirmed COVID-19 cases from Saturday to Sunday, ahead of the Thanksgiving…
Continue ReadingWyoming Governor Mark Gordon has ordered additional statewide measures to slow the spread of COVID-19. …
Continue ReadingWyoming Governor Mark Gordon has authorized a three-pronged approach to provide addition support to the state’s medical facilities. …
Continue ReadingEight people have submitted applications for a vacant House seat after Gillette Republican Rep. Roy Edwards died from COVID-19 on Nov. 2, the day…
Continue ReadingWyoming Senate President Drew Perkins has announced that he tested positive for COVID-19 after he was heard coughing on screen during a remote…
Continue ReadingThe National Park Service has named Palmer “Chip” Jenkins, Jr. as the new superintendent of Grand Teton National Park and the John D. Rockefeller Jr.…
Continue ReadingJackson Police are investigating two cases where counterfeit $100 bills were passed at two local…
Continue ReadingGovernor Mark Gordon’s biennium budget proposal would cut state funding by more than $500…
Continue ReadingWyoming Governor Mark Gordon will launch a $15 million program Wednesday aimed at boosting employment in the oil and gas…
Continue ReadingAs the community again struggles to slow down a COVID-19 outbreak, St. John’s Health CEO, Dr. Paul Beaupre is encouraging the community to “soften a…
Continue ReadingTeton County, Wyoming and the Jackson Parks and Recreation Department have formally canceled the 28th annual Turkey Trot race, originally scheduled…
Continue ReadingTwo Republican lawmakers will compete on Saturday to determine which one will become the next speaker of the Wyoming House of…
Continue ReadingWyoming Governor Mark Gordon sounded alarm Friday that Wyoming take the COVID-19 emergency seriously.…
Continue ReadingSTART Bus unveiled the community’s first Proterra ZX5 battery-electric transit buses. …
Continue ReadingTeton County School District (Wyo.) decided Wednesday night to transition to virtual/remote learning from November 16 through November 20 due to…
Continue ReadingJackson Hole Mountain Resort has announced it intends to open the ski area on Thanksgiving Day, November…
Continue ReadingWyoming Governor Mark Gordon says he is using $10 million in CARES Act funds to bring additional personnel to the state.…
Continue ReadingThe sustained high levels of daily new COVID-19 cases has overwhelmed the current capacity of the Teton County Health Department case investigation…
Continue ReadingWyoming health officials are reporting 646 new coronavirus cases Sunday, the second-highest single-day total of the pandemic in the…
Continue ReadingWyoming’s new U.S. senator-elect, Cynthia Lummis, and top Wyoming elected officials refused to say Friday if they agreed with President Donald…
Continue ReadingWyoming regulators have voted to deny a renewable energy company a lease to build a wind farm on state…
Continue ReadingAn elk reduction program begins Saturday in Grand Teton National Park. …
Continue ReadingIn response to a significant increase in COVID-19 cases, the Teton County Health Department is announcing Teton County, Wyo. is now back in Red or…
Continue ReadingRepublican former U.S. Rep. Cynthia Lummis was elected to an open U.S. Senate seat while Republican U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney won a third term in…
Continue ReadingWyoming’s governor tested negative for the coronavirus for a second time but remained in isolation after being exposed at a meeting that included the…
Continue ReadingVoters for the first time will decide Tuesday between four women as the major party candidates for U.S. House and Senate in Wyoming – two Republicans…
Continue ReadingWyoming state Rep. Roy Edwards of Gillette died of an undisclosed illness a day before the general election, a fellow lawmaker…
Continue ReadingWyoming’s governor planned to isolate himself for more than a week after possibly being exposed to the…
Continue ReadingREI Co-op will open its first Wyoming store in Jackson in summer…
Continue ReadingCertain COVID-19 metrics in Teton County, Wyo. have improved in the past week. These include the percentage of tests that are positive for COVID-19…
Continue ReadingThe Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) will be moving the vehicle brake check area from its current location to the weigh station on the…
Continue ReadingWyoming revenue projections indicate hundreds of millions in…
Continue ReadingSome county health officials in Wyoming have advanced an effort for a mandatory mask order as the number of active coronavirus cases keeps rising…
Continue ReadingIn the event there is one, Wyoming has submitted its initial plan to the Centers for Disease Control for distributing and administering a COVID-19…
Continue ReadingDonations from a recent women’s hunting event will directly benefit food pantries in the state, officials…
Continue ReadingThe University of Wyoming announced Thursday seven students in a sorority house have tested positive for the…
Continue ReadingCooler temperatures and increased moisture is bringing relief to fire conditions in Teton…
Continue ReadingLow oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic continue to take a toll on Wyoming’s economy, according to a new state…
Continue ReadingDuring the month of October 2020, there has been a substantial increase in active COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in Teton County, Wyoming.…
Continue ReadingDr. Jerome Adams said the coronavirus is controllable with three simple W’s or…
Continue ReadingSt. John’s Health and the St. John’s Health Foundation wrapped the southwest antler arch on the town square in pink lights to commemorate breast…
Continue ReadingWyoming coronavirus hospitalizations reached a new high Wednesday as a fall surge in infections continued unabated, raising concern that small…
Continue ReadingThe Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce has officially called off the traditional Trick-or-Treat on Town…
Continue ReadingThe University of Wyoming has announced that its wrestling program halted activities after the team confirmed six cases of…
Continue ReadingA federal court said it would uphold a Federal Trade Commission decision to block a proposed merger between two leading Wyoming coal…
Continue ReadingOver the past 14 days, Wyoming has averaged approximately 79 new cases of COVID-19 per day. …
Continue ReadingBreezy weather continued Tuesday to fan a wildfire threatening a handful of cabin communities in southeastern…
Continue ReadingOne hunter was injured and another unhurt by grizzly bears in two separate attacks in…
Continue ReadingThe largest utility in Wyoming is considering more sustainable solutions for old wind turbine blades, instead of tossing them into a…
Continue ReadingNews reporters on urgent deadlines will need to file a time-consuming public records request in order for the Wyoming Department of Corrections to…
Continue ReadingWyoming’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 6.6% in August from 7.1% in July. …
Continue ReadingGeneral election voting is underway in…
Continue ReadingThe Wyoming High School Activities Association says it plans for high school basketball and wrestling to start on…
Continue ReadingThe University of Wyoming is developing plans to address a $42.3 million budget cut over the next two years because state revenues are declining due…
Continue ReadingA student at a Wyoming junior high school tested positive for the coronavirus while the number of known cases in the state lurched upward by over…
Continue ReadingWyoming lawmakers are discussing whether to end a tax break on new wind energy…
Continue ReadingThe Wyoming Republican Party has voted to censure a member of the Natrona County delegation for her role in founding a nonpartisan political action…
Continue ReadingHurricane-force winds that struck a Wyoming city likely caused millions of dollars in damage and could take up to six months to clean…
Continue ReadingForest officials in Wyoming have announced that the Bridger-Teton National Forest increased by 240 acres after formerly private land was transferred…
Continue ReadingThe University of Wyoming plans to restart in-person classes Tuesday after switching to online learning when a cluster of coronavirus cases…
Continue ReadingIn-person classes at the University of Wyoming will begin for the fall semester no sooner than Monday amid ongoing efforts to test for the…
Continue ReadingThe LOTOJA Bike Race, which takes riders on a 205 mile ride from Logan, Utah and finishes at Teton Village, will pass through Jackson this…
Continue ReadingSome 95,114 wild horses and burros roam free throughout the United States, according to a March 1 count by the federal Bureau of Land…
Continue ReadingChildhood chatter rang out over the blacktop, masked students queued up for school buses, and street signs blinked a warning to slow down outside of…
Continue ReadingOfficials in a Wyoming city have decided not to prohibit feeding feral cats and…
Continue ReadingThe Wyoming Public Defender’s office faces staffing losses that could severely affect its service to residents because of a 10% budget…
Continue ReadingThe Jackson/Teton County Housing Department received a $25,000 grant to secure temporary housing for community members seeking a place to quarantine…
Continue ReadingThe Teton District Public Health Order #20-6, requiring all adults wear face coverings in public places in Teton County, including within the City of…
Continue ReadingAn accident on a highway pass in western Wyoming has killed a state transportation…
Continue ReadingTeton County posted Wyoming’s best improvement in unemployment statistics during July. …
Continue ReadingRapper and music producer Kanye West has missed a deadline to submit signatures to get on the presidential ballot in his home state of…
Continue ReadingThe unpaved section of the Moose-Wilson Road in Grand Teton National Park will be temporarily closed for seasonal dust abatement until 8 a.m.…
Continue ReadingThe University of Wyoming experienced a substantial rise in enrollment after the governor announced a grant-funding program for students, the school…
Continue Reading(KIFI/KIDK) An Amber Alert has been issued in Wyoming for a Montana couple and a baby. The Montana Department of Justice says, 20-year-old Andrew…
Continue ReadingThe Teton County Health Department, in partnership with St. John’s Health, will begin COVID-19 surveillance testing for businesses beginning…
Continue ReadingThe University of Wyoming has reported 61 confirmed cases of the coronavirus on Thursday, officials…
Continue ReadingThe Teton County Fair Board is looking to crown its royalty this weekend to represent the 2021 Teton County…
Continue ReadingWomen are all but guaranteed to claim a majority of Wyoming’s congressional delegation for the first time after voters picked four – two Republicans…
Continue ReadingRapper and music producer Kanye West’s campaign ran into trouble with the law Tuesday on his first day of trying to get on the presidential ballot in…
Continue Readingwo well-funded Republican candidates with past experience in federal office face several little-known challengers, while an usually large number of…
Continue ReadingTwo well-known and well-funded candidates dominate a dozen Republicans while a bigger-than-usual field of Democrats seek nomination for the U.S.…
Continue ReadingWyoming is no longer the only state without its own suicide prevention call…
Continue ReadingThe body of a missing 7-year-old boy was found Tuesday after he had been missing since last Thursday, the Casper Star-Tribune…
Continue ReadingThe Wyoming Department of Health reduced the number of probable coronavirus cases in the…
Continue ReadingA 9-year-old boy was reunited with his family after a driver found him walking alone alongside Interstate 80 in southwestern…
Continue ReadingSearchers continued to look for a 7-year-old boy Monday, two days after finding his father dead in a submerged all-terrain vehicle in southwestern…
Continue ReadingOne person is dead and another injured in a shootout with police in…
Continue ReadingWyoming Governor Mark Gordon has allocated $7.5 million in Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding to the state’s Adult…
Continue ReadingIn an effort to decrease community spread of COVID-19 in Teton County Wyo., the Teton District Health Officer is issuing a recommendation that…
Continue ReadingWyoming’s current health orders will remain in place through at least August 15, as cases of COVID-19 continue to rise. …
Continue ReadingMore inmates and employees at the Wyoming State Penitentiary have tested positive for the…
Continue ReadingTesting of inmates, staff and healthcare workers at Wyoming’s maximum-security prison has detected at least 10 cases of the coronavirus, corrections…
Continue ReadingThe longest-serving head of a state corrections agency plans to…
Continue ReadingA 14-year-old boy is charged with manslaughter for allegedly shooting a 13-year-old boy in…
Continue ReadingWyoming’s unemployment rate fell to 7.6% in June, down from 8.8% in May as state officials lifted some public health orders for slowing spread of the…
Continue ReadingThe Wyoming Legislature could consider providing up to $2 million to help the state’s tourism sector cope with the economic impact of the…
Continue ReadingUniversity of Wyoming officials have released a plan to respond to any surge in the coronavirus on campus after students return in the…
Continue ReadingEach spring since the 1890s, Sublette County cattle ranchers have pushed their herds from the lowlands up to summer pasture along the upper Green…
Continue ReadingAfter a year-long process, the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission has adopted the Wyoming Chronic Wasting Disease Management Plan. …
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