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One group has voiced their opposition to the tolling of I-80. In response to reports the Wyoming Legislature – specifically the Transportation, Highways and Military Affairs Committee – has introduced legislation allowing for tolling on I-80, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has written a letter against the proposition. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association is the…
A new program has been created to help kids beat vaping. The Wyoming Department of Health has partnered with National Jewish Health – the largest nonprofit tobacco quit line provider in the nation – to create My Life, My Quit. This is a free resource that Wyoming teens can access either by phone or online.…
Make your holiday season special with an authentic Wyoming Christmas tree. Tree permits for the Shoshone National Forest will be available beginning next Monday, November 18th. Each $8 permit is good for one personal Christmas tree, so long as its less than 20 feet tall with a trunk diameter less than six inches. The permit…
The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission encourages public comment at its next meeting in Powell. The Commission will hold its meeting on November 18th and 19th at Yellowstone Conference Room at Northwest College. The meeting will cover a number of topics that Game and Fish is and has been prioritizing for several years – chronic…
A Jackson-based documentary production company will be screening their latest documentary at Northwest College tonight. JenTen Productions is screening their documentary Hearts of Glass at the college. The film is about the first fifteen months of operation at Vertical Harvest, the multi-story hydroponic greenhouse that opened in Jackson. One of the focuses of the film is how…
The new director of Homeland Security says he wants to help residents be prepared. Jack Tatum recently took over as the Park County Director of Homeland Security, after the retirement of Mart Knapp. The County Commissioners made some changes, placing responsibility for the position under the Sheriff’s Department, and hired Tatum, a former wildland firefighter.…
A decades-old inter-state murder case that was solved in Wyoming will finally see closure. Joseph Mulvaney, an Illinois man who was shot and killed in the early 1960s, but whose bones were discovered in a foot locker in Thermopolis in 1992, will be honored in a military ceremony in Cody on Friday, March 29th. The…
A Wyoming man who illegally killed a wolf in Grand Teton National Park has been fined and will lose the right to hunt for a year. In an announcement Wednesday, park officials said the 56-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman were charged with an illegal take of wildlife in the park — a young female…