Powell Tribune
POWELL — Two hunt areas south of Powell have been listed as special Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) focus areas.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is looking for samples from deer hunters harvesting mule and white-tailed deer from areas 124 and 165 in the Greybull River Valley.
CWD is a fatal...
Heather Lang of Powell hopes to share her experience with losing her brother TG Howard to suicide in an effort to help others who are contemplating harming themselves or family and friends worried for their loved ones. Photo by Mark Davis, Powell Tribune.
POWELL— The family of Thomas “TG” Howard wanted to make sure they didn’t hide his mental illness and depression, listing it as his cause of death in his obituaries. It was important to find a positive in the unthinkably hard reality of how he died.
Howard took his own life Christmas day, 2015. The...
POWELL — For years, maintenance to historic buildings at the Sunlight and Crandall ranger stations have been put off due to the lack of funding. Now, with the funds in hand, Shoshone National Forest crews and volunteers are hard at work in what they have termed the First Forest Initiatives.
The...
POWELL — After a thunderstorm dumped heavy rain on the eastern portion of Yellowstone National Park and the area outside the East Entrance, Kitty Creek swelled out of its banks and mud and debris poured onto the North Fork Highway from the hills above.
“The mud was 3 feet deep,” said Cody Beers,...
POWELL (WNE) — Vaccines meant to help prevent monkeypox are now available on a limited, targeted basis across the state, according to the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH).
Public health experts are tracking an outbreak of monkeypox that has spread across several countries that don’t normally...
POWELL — Biologists with the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team began field captures of grizzly bears Tuesday and plan to continue through the end of October.
Officials with the U.S. Geological Survey, in conjunction with Yellowstone National Park, will be baiting the areas with roadkill deer and...
POWELL — A concerning trend in nursing care in Montana may offer a glimpse of what’s to come in Wyoming. Seven nursing homes have closed in Montana, which represents about 10% of its nursing home beds.
“There are a few others in Montana that have voiced their concerns about their long-term...
POWELL — Yellowstone National Park announced an ambitious goal of finishing temporary repairs of the Northeast Entrance road by mid-October and has forged a deal with the Montana and Wyoming transportation departments to plow “the plug” this coming winter, if necessary.
“We have very aggressive...
POWELL — More than 300 people, including former incarcerees and a slew of high-powered politicians, celebrated the groundbreaking of the Mineta-Simpson Institute at Heart Mountain Saturday during the annual pilgrimage to the interpretive center designed to preserve what remains of the World War II...
POWELL (WNE) – The preliminary trial of Joseph Underwood, who is charged with mutilating or disposing of a dead human body to conceal a felony offense, has been delayed.
Underwood also faces charges of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, interference with a peace officer and fleeing or...
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