LOCAL NEWS

Two people found out the hard way that when the signs say that Beartooth Highway is closed, it’s closed for a reason. On Tuesday, May 1st, two visitors attempting to get to the Northeast Gate of Yellowstone National Park had to be rescued by Park County Search and Rescue after they ignored the posted “Road…

The Cody City Council this week passed on final reading an ordinance that will make the possession of e-cigarettes illegal by minors. The ordinance tightens regulations that were in place that made tobacco products and other nicotine-containing substances off limits to minors. But the wide variety of e-cigarettes available made the issue fuzzy – while…

The East Entrance to Yellowstone Park is scheduled to open tomorrow at 8 a.m., but an injury to a visitor has already been reported. On Tuesday afternoon, 72-year-old Virginia Junk of Boise, Idaho, was butted in the thigh, pushed, and tossed off a trail by a bison in the Old Faithful area. According to Park…

The slide on Chief Joseph Highway has been stabilized – for now. But a private contractor and Wyoming Department of Transportation personnel are continuing temporary repairs of new cracks in Highway 296 on the switchback above the Chief Joe Slide area, which was first reported on April 19th. WYDOT resident engineer Todd Frost of Cody…

Bear activity and difficult trail conditions are cited as the reasons for a temporary closure of the trail at Heart Mountain Ranch Preserve. The Nature Conservancy, which operates the preserve, sent out a release yesterday noting that bears coming out of hibernation are normally very active in the Northern Rockies, and they want to take…

An interim administrator has been named to lead the Wyoming Retirement Center in Basin. Bruce Allison will assume the administrator role at the Retirement Center, which is a Wyoming Department of Health facility. Allison is currently superintendent of the three Department of Health Aging Division facilities: the Pioneer Home in Thermopolis, the Veterans’ Home of…

The Cody Fire Department, Ambulance Service and local law enforcement officers all responded yesterday afternoon to a report of a man trapped in a ditch in the Trailhead Subdivision. The call came to dispatch around 2:30 yesterday afternoon, when neighbors say a man who was digging a ditch with a backhoe went down into the…

With construction projects surrounding Cody on highways leading out of the community in three directions, motorists are reminded that a new law will soon be in place requiring them to move over for maintenance, construction and utilities workers and vehicles when traveling on Wyoming’s interstates and highways. Starting July 1st, Wyoming’s Move Over law will…

The boat docks at Upper and Lower Sunshine Reservoirs west of Meeteetse are now in the water and ready for use. Game and Fish Habitat and Access Supervisor Brad Sorensen said the docks are removed from the water in late fall or early winter before ice-over occurs as part of routine seasonal maintenance. Docks are…

The public is invited to a farm to table meal, and a conversation, regarding the future of farming in America. Rod Morrison, a certified organic farmer, has joined forces with the Rocky Mountain Farmer’s Union to put on a community dinner at his farm between Cody and Powell, with the purpose of raising awareness of…