Author: Andrew-Rossi
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The numbers don’t lie – COVID-19 cases in Park County are steadily declining but still excessively high as regional hospitals struggle to keep up. Park County Public Health Officer Dr. Aaron Billin continues to post regular updates on the county’s COVID climate on his Facebook page. His latest update on Friday, Oct. 15, shows a…
Yellowstone National Park shatters its September and year-to-date records, which raises questions on whether the park can handle such vast crowds. The record-breaking year at Yellowstone National Park continued into September. Last month’s numbers surpassed 2020’s, making September 2021 the busiest September in the park’s history. Yellowstone National Park hosted 882,078 recreation visits in September 2021…
Another grizzly – the tenth this year – is banished in Park County after taking the fall for another bear trying to get an easy meal near Meeteetse. Once again. Wyoming Game and Fish and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service worked together to capture and relocate a grizzly bear near Meeteetse. But, unlike most…
Cody Regional Health does what it does best – saving the life of a Montana man who needed emergency surgery and had to fly out of his home state to get it. Q2 News in Billings reports that Shawn Loyning of Colstrip, Montana, is recovering well after a harrowing ordeal that saw him rejected from…
A Cody woman is sentenced by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Wyoming for charges related to the distribution of methamphetamine in Park County. On Tuesday, Oct. 12, 37-year-old Cody resident Natosha Martin was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Nancy Freudenthal with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Wyoming. Martin…
The impact of this week’s intense winter weather is enormous – major Wyoming highways were closed, communities isolated, and tourists unable to travel. Wyoming was hammered by unseasonably snowy weather earlier this week. And, based on W.Y.D.O.T.’s Travel Information Map, it shut down a significant portion of Wyoming on Tuesday and well into Wednesday. The…
First responders in Washakie County deal with a tragic situation after an accidental shooting during a hunting excursion leads to a California man’s death. The Washakie County Sheriff’s Office and Worland Police Department shared an update on a tragic incident near Ten Sleep. Washakie County Sheriff Steven Rakness published information on the incident on the…
Chronic wasting disease has been discovered in the Bighorn Basin once again, with an elk testing positive for the fatal disease near Basin and Greybull. Wyoming Game and Fish confirmed the presence of chronic wasting disease in a new elk hunt area in the Bighorn Basin. While this isn’t a surprising discovery, it shows that…
There will be no action against Powell resident Troy Bray, as the Park County Republican Party declines to take punitive measures for his threatening email. The Powell Tribune reports that the Park County Republican Party leadership held an executive session during their last meeting on Thursday, October 7. In that session, they discussed the email…
A new contest asks the next generation of Wyomingites to envision what the state will look like if their aspirations could be fulfilled in the next ten years. The Ruckelshaus Institute of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming is holding a multimedia contest open to Wyoming children. The premise is simple: “imagine…