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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 volunteer firefighters and emergency personnel struggle to remove the doors of a Chevrolet truck involved in a fatal wreck on U.S. Highway 14A near Road 18 Friday afternoon around 1 p.m. Photo by Mark Davis, Powell Tribune.
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...
POWELL (WNE) — The Heart Mountain Interpretive Center on Feb. 18 opened its new exhibit, Parallel Barbed Wire, which features the remarkable stories of Heart Mountain incarceree Clarence Matsumura and Holocaust survivor Solly Ganor.
Matsumura grew up in Los Angeles, graduated from UCLA and was...
A local resident has angled a sign to face Southside Elementary School that urges parents to keep gender ideology out of schools. An accompanying sign reminds parents, ‘The kids are yours, not theirs!’ Photo by Braden Schiller, Powell Tribune.
POWELL — Parents of Powell students will have more input and librarians and administrators will have clearer decision making guidelines if a new policy regarding library books continues to move forward.
Following months of development in a special committee, the first reading of the revised...
POWELL —Talking about climate change in Wyoming — where roughly half of the state government’s revenue comes from fossil fuels — can make for a “tough conversation,” Bill Barron admits.
But for the second time in four years, the regional coordinator for the Citizens’ Climate Lobby toured the...
POWELL — As a shooter opened fire in two buildings on the Michigan State University campus Monday night, Maggie Cappiello took shelter in a dorm room closet and reached out to their mother.
“I’ve never been in a situation [before] where I texted my mom, ‘I don’t want to die,’” said Cappiello, a...
POWELL — Concerns about stepping on the toes of local governments and questions about what the bill would do doomed a Cody lawmaker’s attempt to protect rodeos and other animal events and enterprises from activists.
House Bill 95, the Working Animal Protection Act, unanimously passed committee...
POWELL (WNE) — The state’s snow/water equivalent average is 111% of median with a high of 146% — a dramatic improvement over one and year year-to-date readings, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s survey.
However, the northwest part of the state is lagging behind with...
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