Powell Tribune
POWELL — As Park County District Court Judge Bill Simpson considered the appropriate sentence to issue in connection with the 2020 murder of a Powell infant, he observed that the criminal justice system can be “woefully lacking.”
“This is one of those cases,” Simpson told the defendant, 29-year...
POWELL — As Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives slogged through 15 votes to elect a new speaker in early January, they spent more than 25 hours on the House floor together, with little to do but visit. And U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.) said she took advantage.
“I used every...
POWELL — Federal prosecutors have taken over the case against a Powell woman who allegedly received substantial quantities of fentanyl and meth in the mail — and they say she wasn’t the only person involved.
Last week, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Wyoming charged Victoria A....
POWELL (WNE) — In his 35 years in law enforcement, “there’s always been one drug that’s been predominant,” said Powell Police Chief Roy Eckerdt.
However, that’s not the case right now.
While his department knows fentanyl is spreading across the state, “it’s almost … a level playing field in...
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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