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POWELL — With a herd of 400 elk wandering through the vast fields and hobby farms near Heart Mountain, Wyoming Game and Fish Department game wardens and wildlife technicians have the important job of ensuring the herd doesn’t commingle with livestock or damage winter crops and fences.
The...
POWELL — Wyoming still has a chance to be the first state to have an official stablecoin in the cryptocurrency financial sector.
On Friday, Gov. Mark Gordon allowed the Wyoming Stable Token Act to become law without his signature. He said that after vetoing a similar bill following last year’s...
POWELL (WNE)— Prosecutors say a drunk driver crashed through the wall of a Cody restaurant on Sunday night, temporarily trapping a man under her truck.
Heather L. Johnson, 58, is facing a felony count of causing serious bodily injury while driving while under the influence of alcohol or...
POWELL — The company looking to build a 195-foot cell tower in Wapiti has filed suit against the Park County commissioners, asserting they were wrong to block the project last month.
In a complaint filed Thursday in Wyoming’s U.S. District Court, Horizon Tower, LLC asks a federal judge to...

Powell High School students Anne Aguirre (left) and Anna Smith have chosen dance as their sport, studying at Upstart Dance Academy in Powell. The two best friends have also picked up hunting. With the help of Anne’s brother Alex Aguirre, they both harvested two beautiful bulls this past season. Photo by Mark Davis, Powell Tribune.
POWELL — In the dark of night deep in the wilderness, Powell High School Panthers Anna Smith and Anne Aguirre kept an eye out for the Absaroka Mountain Range’s apex predator. They had found themselves staring down a grizzly bear from less than 30 feet earlier in the day.
Without light, every sound...
POWELL — A Yellowstone National Park wildlife biologist on a radio telemetry flight Tuesday observed the first grizzly bear of 2023 to emerge from hibernation.
The adult bear, estimated at 300-350 pounds, was seen near the remains of a bison carcass in Pelican Valley, near Yellowstone Lake.
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POWELL (WNE) — A program championed by local law enforcement leaders, pushed for by professors and staff, and desired by many students, is coming to Northwest College in the fall semester.
Northwest College will begin offering a new Bachelor of Applied Science in Criminal Justice Studies in the...
POWELL — When Cam Sholly first arrived at Yellowstone National Park in 2018 to take over as superintendent, he immediately started discussing his core priorities.
They included big ticket issues like improving employee housing and business practices, strengthening the ecosystem and heritage...
POWELL (WNE) — As lawmakers debated a bill that would bar employers from forcing their workers to be microchipped, a certain skepticism hung over the idea. And those doubts — about whether a ban was premature, unnecessary or just a bit out there — prompted the House to narrowly reject the...
POWELL (WNE) — A Friday afternoon crash on U.S. Highway 14A claimed the lives of two young Powell women.
Shannah Nelson was 22. Wendy Nelson, her sister, was 20.
The two-vehicle crash occurred shortly before 1 p.m. on an icy portion of the highway, east of the Heart Mountain Interpretive...
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