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Folks looking for a good haunting will want to sign up for an event coming to the Irma Hotel this month. A team of professional ghost hunters and paranormal investigators are coming to Cody to investigate the historic Irma Hotel for a live, immersive, overnight ghost hunt. Staff and guests alike at the Irma Hotel…

The Wyoming Business Council is offering grants to communities to start a different kind of farm. Vertical farms are an innovative new method of growing plants on the walls of existing buildings. The low-maintenance, hydroponic systems grow produce in otherwise unused space, turning blank walls into gardens that provide fresh, local produce. In 2017, the…

Although we are expecting just a few inches of snow here in the Big Horn Basin in the next couple of days, the Great Plains could see round two of a weather pattern that devastated parts of Nebraska and Iowa last month. Locally, melting snow has swollen waterways, and high winds sweeping across dry grasslands…

The road to a budding hemp crop has stalled out. Despite the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill last year, the USDA has put a halt to reviewing any state plans to begin cultivating hemp as a commodity crop. The Wyoming Legislature passed a bill last month that brought the state into compliance with the…

Over $100,000 was raised last week by listeners in northern Wyoming during the Big Horn Radio Network’s Country Cares for St. Jude Kids radiothon. At the end of the two-day event on Friday evening, $101,120 was pledged to help children and families at the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. According to officials at St. Jude,…

15 Minutes Can Burn 100 Calories OR MORE! No, this isn’t a Geico commercial… Studies have shown that if you move quickly for just 15 minutes, you can burn up to 125 calories, slash stress, and as a result, curb sugar cravings. I’m Wendy Corr, with your Daily Wellness Tip! So, TRUE CONFESSION TIME… I’m…

Today is Marge Wilder Day. It was proclaimed as such on Tuesday evening at the Cody City Council Meeting by Mayor Matt Hall, in honor of the 90 year old woman who has been a driving force in preserving the history of the community. Wilder and her late husband, Dick, were the initial leaders in…

The Big Horn Basin is raising a record amount of money for the kids at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The St. Jude Celebrity Dinner fundraiser on Wednesday evening at Cassie’s netted almost $7500 – that’s the most ever raised in the nine years that the event has been held, according to the Big Horn…

The Shoshone National Forest is planning to implement three prescribed fire projects northwest of Cody and one west of Meeteetse. The planned prescribed fire projects will be done to reduce hazardous fuels in close proximity to private property as well as enhance range and wildlife habitat. Areas affected include near Dead Indian Pass and Dead…

A Wyoming Department of Health report says women in the state who gave birth in 2017 reported high rates of depression before, during and after pregnancy. The agency’s Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System says more than 19 percent of women who gave birth two years ago reported having depression before they became pregnant. Just over…