Wyoming Department of Transportation
The Board of Weston County Commissioners agreed to take another look at Old Highway 85 and reconsider the planned scope of work, prior to a bridge replacement scheduled for 2024 and additional road work on the docket for 2025.
Vice Chairman Nathan Todd and Commissioners Ed Wagoner and Don Taylor...
LYMAN (WNE) — The Federal Highway Administration announced Tuesday that Wyoming’s National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure plan has been approved and Fiscal Year 2022 funding has been released.
The state will now begin the process as outlined in the plan for year one of the program, which will...
AFTON (WNE) — The Wyoming Department of Transportation wants to remind residents and travelers about the offerings under the Wyoming Travel Authorization Program (W-TAP) ahead of the 2022-2023 winter season.
Through W-TAP, drivers can apply to receive authorization to travel on sections of closed...
CODY (WNE) —There were only 10 registered electric vehicles in Park County earlier this year, although that’s more than any other county in the Big Horn Basin.
However, Cody is the terminus of three routes the Wyoming Department of Transportation is highlighting to help businesses build electric...
An aerial photo of the parking lot has been provided to parents. The school is open and willing to hear all suggestions on potential solutions.
Concerns about the pickup and drop-off procedures at Newcastle Elementary School have been a topic of discussion since COVID-19 threw a wrench in all school procedures. The pandemic kept parents in their cars, which led to long lines backed up on the highway, increased wait times and generated an...
*Note: This story has been updated to include the Sept. 13 start date of the chip seal project.
Newcastle’s Main Street will be getting a little work-over before fall arrives, and residents who hope to do business downtown while the work is going on will have to find someplace else to park. ...
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,...
John Cooksey with his Piper Pacer in Newcastle, Wyoming. March 1986. Courtesy: Wyoming Aviation Hall of Fame.
The Wyoming Aviation Hall of Fame and the Wyoming Aeronautics Commission have named John B. Cooksey the 2022 inductee into the Wyoming Aviation Hall of Fame, according to a release from the Wyoming Department of Transportation.
John B. Cooksey was born in Newcastle, Wyo., on June 18, 1921. He grew...
CHEYENNE (WNE) — The Wyoming Department of Transportation issued a reminder Friday that advertising signs cannot be placed in the state right-of-way.
"With the upcoming elections, we’ve seen an increase in the number of signs our maintenance crews are having to remove from the right-of-way fence or...
GILLETTE (WNE) — A Gillette woman was recently sentenced for her role in a rash of mail thefts in the spring of 2019.
At the end of July, Donae Larae Chavez, 40, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl to 28 months in prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud, followed by five...
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