With 20,000 water balloons, it’s promoted as the largest water balloon fight of the summer.
That’s a proud reputation by sponsors of the fifth annual Last Splash of Summer, scheduled …
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7/28/22
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Community identity — both its history and present day — inspires a contest sponsored by Homesteader Museum to create postcards of Powell.
“One thing that people have always asked …
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7/28/22
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The preliminary trial of Joseph Underwood, who is charged with mutilating or disposing of a dead human body to conceal a felony offense, has been delayed.
Underwood also faces charges of …
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By Braden Schiller
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7/28/22
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Join us on Sunday, July 31 at 12:30 p.m. at the Powell United Methodist Church for a thought provoking conversation about “Setsuko’s Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese …
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7/28/22
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The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is asking everyone, especially landowners, to report dead sage grouse to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department so the birds can be tested for West Nile …
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7/28/22
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More voters in Park County are choosing to cast their ballots early with in-person voting at the Park County courthouse.
Three weeks ahead of the Aug. 16 primary election in Wyoming, 387 voters …
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7/28/22
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School may be out for the summer, but learning’s still in session for Wyoming’s littlest readers and pre-readers.
BookFlix, an online GoWYLD resource provided by the Wyoming State …
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7/28/22
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ROUTT NATIONAL FOREST, COLORADO – With mosquitoes swarming around her, Inna Willis inspects the unknown creature trapped in her net with a mix of disgust and fascination. After learning …
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By Andromeda Erikson, WyoFile.com
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7/28/22
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There may not be anything state leaders can do to ease the burden of high fuel prices on Wyomingites, at least in the short term. That was part of the message at the second public meeting Friday of a …
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By Carrie Haderlie, Wyoming Tribune Eagle Via Wyoming News Exchange
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7/28/22
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GILLETTE (WNE) — A 31-year-old man charged for resisting arrest against multiple Gillette police officers had habitual criminal enhancements added to his charges. If the enhancements stick and …
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7/28/22
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In 2019, Ethan Asher was seriously injured in a car accident. In the span of a month, Michael Hooper, Talan Hooper and Josh Ashcraft built a track, solicited donations from local businesses and held …
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By Kevin Killough
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7/26/22
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The Park County Fair marks its 111th year this week, and this year’s fair will be outstanding, according to one of its new organizers.
“I’m excited about it. Out of all …
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By Braden Schiller
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7/26/22
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After an enormously successful junior livestock sale last year, 4-H and FFA kids are working hard to prepare for this year’s sale on July 30 at 1 p.m.
The junior livestock sale will …
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By Lucy Jane Crimm
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7/26/22
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In preparation for next month’s primary election, Park County elections officials ran public tests of all of their voting equipment to be used at polling locations. It’s hardly news …
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By Mark Davis
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7/26/22
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Furious summer winds whipped through the area Sunday night. Downed trees and limbs knocked power out to many homes in Cody and the Heart Mountain area of Park County.
Garland Light & Power …
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By Kevin Killough and Dave Bonner
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7/26/22
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Chancey Williams, the headliner for the Park County Fair concert Thursday, strives to make “Wyoming country music.”
But that doesn’t mean he sticks to an old-fashioned …
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By Braden Schiller
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7/26/22
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In a rare second appearance by organizers in the Park County Fairgrounds arena, Josh Ashcraft, Talan Hooper and Michael Hooper, of Race 4 Recovery, will offer a new competition for area …
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By Mark Davis
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7/26/22
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The annual demolition derby at the Park County Fair — a fine-tuned machine of an event with a few new additions — will roar into action on Saturday.
This year’s derby will …
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By Braden Schiller
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7/26/22
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The University of Wyoming Powell Research and Extension Center (PREC) treated the community to its annual Field Day on Thursday. The event offers the public the opportunity to learn about the …
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By Kevin Killough
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7/26/22
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A fire in the Bighorn National Forest, ignited when a Georgia couple crashed their single-engine plane on a Powell to Buffalo flight, is still burning.
Dubbed the Gem Lake Fire, two large Chinook …
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7/26/22
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