Archive - Nov 2012 - News

Wyoming State Troopers discovered 23 pounds of marijuana in a false compartment of a pickup truck during a routine traffic stop on Monday. The driver, 38-year-old William Ritter of Virginia, was pulled over for speeding on Highway 287, six miles south of Laramie.

An 18-year-old Natrona County woman has been accused of trying to kill her stepmother with eye drops.

The Sheridan County Sheriff's Office is looking for information regarding the theft of a hot-rod engine. Sergeant Mike Gale explains what happened.

Previously we looked at how strained budgets, WUIs or Wildland/Urban Interfaces and safety priorities shape the policies for wildfire prevention and suppression on the Bighorn National Forest.
Today we will discuss how the landscape itself dictates how and where or even if mechanical treatments can be done.

Johnson County's Commissioners awarded the maintenance contract for the judicial/justice center complex to Powder River Heating and Air Conditioning of Buffalo to provide maintenance work on the heating and air conditioning systems of both buildings.

Buffalo's City Council awarded the bid for a feasibility study on the old Clear Creek School building to Nelson Engineering of Buffalo.

A 65 year-old Gillette tow truck driver was helping another driver when he became the victim of a fatal hit and run on Interstate 90 near Gillette Sunday morning. Larry G. Schofield was operating the controls of his rollback tow truck in the emergency lane, in the process of helping someone who collided with a deer, when he was struck by a pickup truck. Chris Foy has more.

The clearwell expansion project at the Big Goose Water Treatment Plant has reached substantial completion status. SAWS Project Manager Dan Coughlin says it's pretty much all systems go.

Officials with the Black Hills National Forest, which spans from northeastern Wyoming to southwestern South Dakota, are asking the public to avoid parking in front of the forest gates.

The Sheridan Economic and Educational Development Authority is looking to expand on a target industries study that was conducted in 2007 by consultants Wadley-Donovan. City Planning Director and SEEDA Administrator Robert Briggs.