Sixth-cent results: Casper approves Metro shelter, fire station, two ...
Nov 5, 2024 · CASPER, Wyo. — Casper voters approved an optional sixth-cent sales tax to fund four capital projects including a new Metro Animal Shelter and improvements to the Washington Park bandshell. The voters rejected four other proposals for funding from the same tax, including a new ski lift at Hogadon and a second sheet of ice at the Casper Ice Arena.
Peabody Energy: PRB production ‘better than expected’ in Q3 2024
Nov 15, 2024 · GILLETTE, Wyo. — Peabody Energy coal production in the Powder River Basin performed better than expected over the last few months, accounting for a sizeable chunk of the company’s most recent quarterly earnings.
Gillette police officer faces felony charges for custodial sexual ...
Dec 6, 2024 · GILLETTE, Wyo. — A rookie Gillette police officer is facing multiple felonies with Utah prosecutors alleging he engaged in a custodial sexual relationship, tampered with a witness and illegally accessed protected information while employed as a Hurricane City police officer, Washington County court records state.
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Judge rules Wyoming abortion bans unconstitutional
Nov 19, 2024 · CASPER, Wyo. — A judge in Teton County ruled on Monday that Wyoming’s two abortion bans violate the state constitution. According to WyoFile, Judge Melissa Owens concluded that a near-total ban that included medical abortions “impede the fundamental right to make health care decisions for an entire class of people, pregnant women.” The two bans passed in 2023 by the state legislature ...
PacifiCorp mulls breakup that could align Wyoming with other pro …
Nov 22, 2024 · by Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile Wyoming and Utah may get what they’ve been pining for in recent years: the breakup of PacifiCorp. The electric utility giant has increasingly struggled to mesh pro-fossil-fuel policies favored by those states with cleaner energy policies preferred in other places it operates like California, Oregon and Washington.
Blue hydrogen could be Wyoming’s net-zero solution, study …
Oct 21, 2024 · Researcher and UW Hydrogen Energy Research Center Director Eugene Holubnyak said in a UW Institutional Communications release that the benefits to Wyoming citizens were a factor in the paper. “This study really allowed us to incorporate the views of the community colleges and explore some of the economic incentives and workforce training opportunities for a natural gas-based, low-carbon ...
What happens when a rural Wyoming town loses its only source of …
Oct 19, 2024 · As of the 2020 census, the population of the entire encompassing area of Carbon County was only 14,500, including its largest town: Rawlins. Until recently, Baggs was home to the Little Snake River Clinic, where people could receive primary care from the local physician assistant or come in as needed for non-emergent care like a fever, sore throat or bad scrapes. A physician would schedule ...
Sixth-cent fix? City says 911 technology serving county is …
Oct 17, 2024 · CASPER, Wyo. — Though operated by the city of Casper, law enforcement and emergency agencies countywide are dispatched through the Natrona County Public Safety Communications Center, or PSCC.
(PHOTOS) NCHS keeps trophy in 2024 Oil Bowl blowout on Friday …
Oct 12, 2024 · CASPER, Wyo. — The Natrona County High School Mustangs easily kept the Oil Bowl trophy from the hands of crosstown rivals KWHS during the 2024 Oil Bowl on Friday, Oct. 11.