Powell Tribune
POWELL — Powell Police Chief Roy Eckerdt and school district superintendent Jay Curtis are concerned about two legal substances that have resulted in hospital visits and several deaths in Park County within the last 18 months.
Delta 8 is a form of THC [the psychoactive chemical found in marijuana...
POWELL — Powell Valley Healthcare and the estate of a surgeon who died nearly a year ago in a plane crash are being sued by a former patient over a 2020 surgery. Sylvia Hutton, a Cody resident, filed the claim through her lawyers in the U.S. District Court of Wyoming last week.
Hutton is suing...
POWELL— A Powell game bird farm has been given the sole right to raise greater sage grouse in the state by the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission.
The commission discussed the issue briefly Tuesday afternoon during its meeting in Rock Springs. Commissioners moved to update Chapter 60 regulations to...
POWELL — A new petition signed by the majority of Cooke City/Silver Gate residents and business owners in support of plowing U.S. Highway 212 east of the gateway communities shows a significant shift in sentiment, according to a committee of residents hoping to open up the nearly 9-mile section of...
POWELL — The volunteer firefighter whose wife was killed in a November, 2021, fire in Clark has sued the local power company and a tree trimming contractor as part of a wrongful death suit.
Jerry Ruth’s wife Cindy died while trying to escape the fire in an area of homes near the Montana border...
POWELL —University of Wyoming crop physiologist Jim Heitholt is fairly unique in the agricultural world. He didn’t come from an ag family and didn’t consider agriculture as a vocation until finding himself fascinated with crop research during high school.
What he came to realize as he worked...
POWELL — Wildlife migrations are here, placing both animals and drivers more often in precarious positions on the road.
A new report by The Nature Conservancy of Wyoming seeks to shed light on the subject, pointing out the state’s abysmal statistics. The annual number of wildlife–vehicle...
POWELL — Wyoming voters will be asked to weigh in on raising the mandatory retirement age of Supreme Court and District Court judges as they vote on proposed Amendment B in the Nov. 8 general election.
Amendment B would raise the compulsory retirement age for the judges from 70 to 75.
Adoption of...
POWELL — Electrically stunned trout rolled to the top of the water, revealing their white underbellies, while volunteers hoping to save Wyoming’s prized game fish sloshed through the muddy, receding pools of the Cody Canal to scoop them up as fast as possible.
The volunteers, who face a wet and...
(Left to right) Trapper wrestlers August Harrison, Kendell Cummings, Brady Lowry and Orrin Jackson get a moment to themselves on campus Wednesday between media interviews. The students now have a bond for life after surviving a grizzly bear attack Saturday in the Absaroka Mountains in the Shoshone National Forest. Photo by Mark Davis, Powell Tribune.
POWELL —Brady Lowry noticed bear scat as he walked with three fellow Northwest College wrestling teammates along a hillside on the South Fork. They were searching for shed antlers — one of their favorite activities in nearby mountain ranges. The four close friends chose the school in part due to...
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