LOCAL NEWS

The Cody City Council yesterday heard from a group of downtown merchants regarding the idea of closing off a portion of 12th street to form a downtown pedestrian mall. Kenny Martin, a former downtown business owner and the director of the nightly summer gunfight, proposed to the Council at their Tuesday work session that the…

The 2018 Central and Western Wyoming Severe Weather Awareness week is happening through Friday, April 13th. Today in particular, residents are cautioned that there will be a special NOAA Weather Radio routine test that will occur around 1 p.m. Tim Troutman with the National Weather Service in Riverton says if you have a weather radio…

The little town of Basin is thriving. Within the last year, the town has seen a new fertilizer plant built by the Big Horn Co-op, and construction is underway for a new Rural Electric Association building on Main Street. And tomorrow, Big Horn County School District #4 is inviting the public to a groundbreaking ceremony…

A meeting at the Holiday Inn tonight in Cody will focus on grizzly bear hunting. The Game and Fish Department will be holding a public hearing on current draft grizzly bear hunting regulations tonight at 6 p.m. at the Holiday Inn. The public is invited to attend and give their input regarding the first hunting…

Cody Regional Health has been recognized by the Immunization Action Coalition for instituting a mandate that all healthcare personnel receive influenza vaccinations every year. Cody Regional Health is one of four healthcare systems in Wyoming that has recently been accepted onto IAC’s Influenza Vaccination Honor Roll. Human Resource Officer Dick Smith says that the organization’s…

The Heart Mountain Interpretive Learning Center is collaborating with other organizations to better tell the story of a dark time in America’s history. In February, four national Japanese American organizations signed a memorandum of understanding to demonstrate their commitment to the Japanese American Confinement Site Consortium, a group of organizations and individuals dedicated to preserving…

St. Jude Children’s Research hospital received a huge boost from the residents of northern Wyoming last week. Thanks to the Country Cares for St. Jude Kids radiothon put on by the Big Horn Radio Network and its sister stations in northeastern Wyoming, over $105,000 was raised for the research hospital that will help to advance…

Two Park County men charged with a total of eight felonies have been placed on probation. 24 year old Austin Maddox and 27 year old Evan Haywood pled guilty to misdemeanor charges of reckless endangering in a plea agreement with the Park County attorney’s office. The charges stem from an incident last July in which…

A local expert says that the restoration of suicide prevention funds will help mental health professionals better serve their patients who may be considering suicide. Psychologist Terresa Humphries-Wadsworth, who has been working in the mental health field since the mid-1990s, says that when mental health clinicians have advanced training available, they come away energized and…

The Cody Police Department may soon have new tools that will help them better serve the public’s safety and peace. Two of those tools come in the form of ordinances passed on first reading at last night’s City Council meeting. An ordinance that would make possession of e-cigarettes by minors illegal will help to save…