Wyoming
LARAMIE — The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees offered its perspective this week on the work done by President Ed Seidel’s Freedom of Expression, Intellectual Freedom, and Constructive Dialogue group, with most supporting it, as well as voicing some concerns.
Seidel announced the creation...
A grizzly bear wanders through fall foliage in the Greater Yellowstone region. (National Park Service/C. Adams)
FROM WYOFILE:
Rather than removing bears, tribal wildlife managers removed people to avoid conflicts. The approach has also been tried before in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Art Lawson wanted to show actor Martin Sensmeier what the Wind River Indian Reservation was all about when he came...
CHEYENNE — Legislators on the Joint Labor, Health and Social Services Committee approved a bill Friday designed to relieve the administrative burden on hospital staff and give patients faster access to medical services.
Bill draft 68, if passed into law, would impose limits on the process of...
JACKSON — Members of the Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Judiciary Committee showed their support this week for two bills addressing the care of vulnerable adults.
The proposed legislation came before the committee Monday during an update from state Rep. Lloyd Larsen, R-Lander, co-chair of the Mental...
A mural in memory of Robbie Ramirez in Laramie. Derek Colling, a then-Albany County sheriff’s deputy, shot and killed Ramirez on Nov. 4, 2018. Ramirez was unarmed and living with mental illness. (Tennessee Watson/WyoFile)
FROM WYOFILE:
Attorney for the family of an unarmed man shot by a sheriff’s deputy called county’s attempt to block access to settlement agreement ‘deeply concerning.’
Debra Hinkel, who sued and settled with Albany County after her unarmed son was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy, wants...
GILLETTE (WNE) — “You have not reached 911. You have reached Londen,” the voicemail begins.
“This is not emergency services and please do not leave me a message,” it continues. “But have a great day.”
Londen Tabor plans on leaving the conversation-starting voicemail as is for a good long while...
CASPER (WNE) — Ray Pacheco was named mayor and Lisa Engebretsen was appointed vice mayor Friday morning following former mayor Bruce Knell’s sudden resignation less than 24 hours prior.
Casper Mayor Bruce Knell stepped down from City Council on Thursday following allegations he physically...
Richard Watts and his father Carl volunteer to help make barbed-wire fencing on BLM land in the Clarks Fork Canyon more big game friendly. Richard, age 13, has been a volunteer for the Absaroka Fence Initiative for three years. Photo by Mark Davis, Powell Tribune.
Conservation de-fence
POWELL — In celebration of the 30th anniversary of National Public Lands Day, the Bureau of Land Management Cody Field Office and the Absaroka Fence Initiative called on their growing list of volunteers to make the fences at the Clarks Fork Canyon watershed more big game...
Ken Merklin, left, and his wife, Bonnie Merklin, bid goodbye to Wilma Wynn during a 90th birthday celebration for members of the Cheyenne High School graduating class of 1951 at The Office Bar and Grill in Cheyenne on Wednesday. The pair have been married for 68 years. Ken says the secret to their happiness is that “she’s always right.” Photo by Alyte Katilius, Wyoming Tribune Eagle.
CHEYENNE — It’s uncommon for someone to live long enough to celebrate their 90th birthday, and even more uncommon to do so with 29 of their peers.
Wednesday afternoon, 30 members of the 1951 graduating class of Cheyenne High School gathered at The Office Bar & Grill, not for their 72nd...
Sam Mihara of California speaks about the Heart Mountain prison camp near Cody during a recent presentation at the Campbell County Public Library in Gillette. Mihara was sent to the prison camp at age 9 along with more than 120,000 other Japanese Americans who were dispersed to camps across the country at the outset of WWII. Photo by Ed Glazar, Gillette News Record.
GILLETTE — Hundreds of guests sat Wednesday studying the black and white photograph that was projected toward the front of the dimly lit room.
In the photo, the Miharas looked back. The family was well dressed. The men wore suits and everyone wore serious expressions. Toward the front of the...
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