Author: Andrew-Rossi

Yellowstone National Park officials are asking for the public’s help in determining who started a fire near the north entrance Friday evening. The fire began spreading through the grass and sage between the North Entrance station and the Gardner River on July 26th at around 6 p.m. According to a news release from the Park,…

The world really does need more cowboys. That’s according to the U.S. Senate, who this week unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution declaring July 27th as the National Day of the American Cowboy. This resolution, sponsored by Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi and Senator Jon Tester of Montana, commemorates the pioneering men and women who helped establish…

The Heart Mountain Interpretive Center tells the story of some 14,000 Japanese Americans unjustly incarcerated in Wyoming from 1942 through 1945. This weekend, former internees and their families will make sure that dark period in American history is not forgotten, through the annual Heart Mountain Pilgrimage. Each year, the Heart Mountain Foundation provides an opportunity…

Sport shooters in the Cody area may soon have more space to practice. A public meeting Monday evening near the Cody Shooting Complex northwest of Cody will center on the proposed expansion of the shooting range. The meeting will be hosted by the Bureau of Land Management Cody Field Office. The BLM is preparing an…

Yellowstone National Park staff have had a busy summer responding to bears in campgrounds, backcountry campsites, and along roadsides. Last month, at a backcountry campsite along Little Cottonwood Creek, a black bear bit into an occupied tent and bruised a woman’s thigh. Rangers set up cameras and a decoy tent at the campsite to see…

If you’d like to help beautify the area around Cody, you’ve got a chance to pitch in this Saturday on the South Fork. The Bureau of Land Management invites residents to a community workday this Saturday, July 27, at the Andy Martin Hill River Access along the Shoshone River southwest of Cody. Volunteers and BLM…

Door to door salesmen are under scrutiny in Big Horn County, after reports of thefts have come in following some sales pitches to residents. The Big Horn County Sheriff’s Department Facebook page warns residents that suspicious persons are going door to door offering various sales pitches; but evidence has turned up suggesting that some of…

If you’ve been waiting for lower gas prices to fill up your vehicle, now is that time – at some stations, at least. While gas prices around the Big Horn Basin have been hovering around $2.50 per gallon, in Cody a gas war has brought prices down to just over $2 and a quarter in…

The annual Heart Mountain Pilgrimage is underway, and events are taking place throughout Park County this weekend. In particular, several films are being shown that portray different perspectives of the experiences of the Japanese-American internees at Heart Mountain during World War II. The Buffalo Bill Center of the West will host a free film screening…

While the state’s unemployment rate stayed the same from May to June, more people are out of work in Big Horn County than they were the month before. The Wyoming Department of Workforce Services reported this week that the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained unchanged from May to June at 3.5%. That’s slightly lower…