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An environmental group says Grand Teton National Park officials are inappropriately preventing the public from learning about plans for new cellphone towers at the foot of the visually striking Teton Range. The group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility says it obtained a document through the Freedom of Information Act showing Grand Teton has tentative plans…
While Idaho and Wyoming pursue plans to allow grizzly bear hunting outside Yellowstone National Park, Montana wildlife officials say they don’t regret deciding against holding a hunt this year. This past week, Idaho opened public comment on a proposal for a hunt of one male grizzly. Wyoming has released a proposal to sell 24 grizzly…
Tomorrow, Cody High School students will be organizing an event calling attention to the impact of gun violence on their lives. Three high school students have organized a protest in conjunction with a larger nationwide movement called March For Our Lives. Caitlyn Murray, editor of the online newspaper CHS Bonfire, says that she and two…
The Wyoming Republican Party’s state secretary has been charged with simple assault after an alleged altercation with the party’s executive director. The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported Thursday that the Laramie County Circuit Court said the charge was filed against Charles Curley. Republican officials have said the incident occurred Feb. 23 between Curley and state GOP…
The recent wet weather has impacted a well-known backcountry trail northwest of Cody. The Shoshone National Forest has closed Forest Service Road 120 on the Clarks Fork Ranger District. Known locally as the Morrison Jeep Trail, this road has been closed due to multiple rockslides impeding traffic. While this road has an annual seasonal closure…
More than $1.96 million in highway, bridge and fencing improvements is part of the second phase of improvements between Lovell and Emblem on Wyoming Highway 32. Fencing work started this past week on the project, which is located between Foster Gulch and Highway 32’s intersection with Highway 295. When complete, this rural highway will see…
Idaho officials have started the process of opening a grizzly bear hunting season this fall that would allow the killing of one male grizzly. The Fish and Game Commission on Thursday directed the Department of Fish and Game to gather public comments on the possible hunt in eastern Idaho. The department will use those comments…
A looming deadline in Washington D.C. could affect progress in Yellowstone National Park. Although Congressional leaders reached a $1.3 trillion spending deal yesterday to keep government agencies operating through September, lawmakers must pass it before tomorrow night to avoid another government shutdown. Dan Wenk, Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, told Chamber members in Cody on…
The spending bill slated for a vote in Congress includes a bipartisan plan to create a wildfire disaster fund to help combat increasingly severe wildfires that have devastated the West in recent years. The bill sets aside more than $20 billion over 10 years to allow the Forest Service and other federal agencies end a…
A local businesswoman has announced her bid for the Wyoming State Legislature. Sandy Newsome, who with her husband Bob owns several retail properties in downtown Cody, announced this week her bid for House District 24, which runs from the west half of Cody through to Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park. With experience in…