Campbell County
Coal producers lay off 300 PRB workers
By Greg Johnson
Gillette News Record
Via Wyoming News Exchange
GILLETTE — The Powder River Basin’s coal workforce shrunk by about 6% Thursday with the layoff of 300 workers from three mines.
Peabody Energy Corp. employees were informed Thursday that about...
Coal producers lay off 300 PRB workers
By Greg Johnson
Gillette News Record
Via Wyoming News Exchange
GILLETTE — The Powder River Basin’s coal workforce shrunk by about 6% Thursday with the layoff of 300 workers from three mines.
Peabody Energy Corp. employees were informed Thursday that about...
Legislator pulls firearms bill, says it was mischaracterized
By Kathy Brown
Gillette News Record
Via Wyoming News Exchange
GILLETTE — A Campbell County state legislator has withdrawn a controversial bill he’d proposed on firearms reporting for national background checks.
Rep. Bill Pownall, a...
Plan to allow armed teachers in Campbell Co. wins initial approval
By Kathy Brown
Gillette News Record
Via Wyoming News Exchange
GILLETTE — School trustees have unanimously approved a policy and regulations that would allow educators to conceal carry handguns in six rural schools in Campbell...
New Blackjewel owner misses first tax payment
By Camille Erickson
Casper Star-Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
CASPER — One of the newest companies to take over coal mines in the Powder River Basin has defaulted on its tax payments.
Eagle Specialty Materials LLC — the new owner of the former...
Legislator proposes using protected funds for schools
By Nick Reynolds
Casper Star-Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
CASPER — A Campbell County lawmaker has introduced a bill that, if passed, would add $43 million in previously untouchable funding to Wyoming’s public education system. ...
Campbell Co. schools lose almost $1 million on lunches
By Kathy Brown
Gillette News Record
Via Wyoming News Exchange
GILLETTE — The Campbell County School District is losing nearly $1 million a year through its school lunch program, something that’s not unique in Wyoming.
Deputy Superintendent...
Miners called back to work at former Blackjewel mines
By Greg Johnson
Gillette News Record
Via Wyoming News Exchange
GILLETTE — Dozens of former Blackjewel LLC coal miners are getting the calls they’ve been waiting nearly four months for: Come back to work.
Nearly 600 workers at the Eagle Butte...
Contura pays county taxes in sign of finished mine deal
By Greg Johnson
Gillette News Record
Via Wyoming News Exchange
GILLETTE — Eagle Specialty Materials has apparently closed its deal to assume ownership of the Eagle Butte and Belle Ayr coal mines in Campbell County and could be days away...
Counties want more leverage in mineral tax collection
By Jonathan Gallardo
Gillette News Record
Via Wyoming News Exchange
GILLETTE — Officials from Campbell and Johnson counties say they need more help when it comes to collecting unpaid mineral production taxes.
During a meeting Monday with the...
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