Bighorn Basin
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More Bighorn Basin residents have died due to COVID-19. The Wyoming Department of Health confirmed another 23 COVID-19 related deaths Monday afternoon, bringing the total number to 280 Wyoming deaths. Two older adult Big Horn County women died late last month. Both were hospitalized in states outside Wyoming. One woman had health conditions that placed…
38 more Wyoming residents have died due to COVID-19, including two Park County residents. All the deceased were Wyoming residents who tested positive for COVID-19 and were added to the state’s posted total between Nov. 21 and 25. The Wyoming Department of Health released more details Tuesday evening. Both deaths in Park County were older…
Meeteetse wants your skulls – and the older, the better. This isn’t a ghoulish Halloween plot, but rather an attempt to better understand the history of America’s most iconic big animal in the Bighorn Basin. The Meeteetse Museums are asking for residents throughout northwest Wyoming to participate in the Bison of the Bighorn Basin project.…
Brad Cline, a Wyoming veterans service officer based in Cody, will be traveling around the Bighorn Basin to meet with veterans and their families. He will be available to discuss benefits and other opportunities available to our state’s veterans: state and federal benefits, Department of Veterans Affairs claims, and VA healthcare. Cline is also ready…
Cody Regional Health’s new offering is a better way to get better care. The Emergency Medical Services of Cody Regional Health has launched a new Transfer Center, not only for Cody and Park County but for the entirety of the Bighorn Basin. All the hospitals and medical providers in the Basin will be using one…
Be very very quiet – its Bighorn Sheep hunting season . . . starting Saturday. Wyoming Game and Fish has announced it’s opening the bighorn sheep hunting season beginning August 1 through August 31 in the Owl Creek drainage portion of Bighorn Sheep Hunt Area 5. This new, earlier hunting date is exclusively for Hunt…
The Neiber Fire nears total containment. As of last Saturday, the 17,545 acre fire that started July 14th 7 miles south of Worland was at 95% containment, with the only uncontained section burning in rugged terrain along the Mule Creek drainage. This area is now receiving the bulk of the resources and suppression efforts, as…
Northwest College weighs in on colleges cutting sports. In a statement released last week, Northwest College President Stefani Hicswa discussed a previously unfathomable possibility – discontinuing sports at the college. This is in light of both Sheridan College and Gillette College announced they would be discontinuing most of their NJCAA Division 1 athletic teams: men’s…
Wyoming needs your blood. While everyone in the state is encouraged – if not implored – to stay home as much as possible, there’s one need that cannot wait – live-saving blood donations. Vitalant returns to Cody this week for another community blood drive at VFW Post 2673 on 808 12th Street. Blood is always…
A popular cave in the Bighorn National Forest will be closed again this year. Forest officials have once again closed the Tongue River Cave to the general public in 2020. Last year, a maternity roost of Townsend’s big-eared bats was discovered in the cave, which prompted the most recent of several periodic closures of the…