Wyoming
People cheer on athletes competing in track and field events Saturday during the Special Olympics Summer Games at Thunder Basin High School in Gillette. Above: Phil Grabrick coaxes an athlete to the finish line of a track and field event Saturday during a day of competition in the Special Olympics Summer Games at Thunder Basin High School in Gillette. (Photos by Ed Glazar, Gillette News Record)
GILLETTE — Dozens of athletes were at the Thunder Basin High School track Friday afternoon, running, walking, throwing and rolling.
Jordi Stewart, 9, ran to grab a Powerade for Lander Special Olympian Nick Eisnnicher, who just completed the 30-meter slalom on the track, swerving his wheelchair in...
Chad Eagleton has raised or rescued 29 Budgerigar Parakeets which he has begun adopting out to fund private educational grants for people wishing to pursue a mental health care career. Here he stands in front of his homemade atrium. (Photo by Braden Schiller, Powell Tribune)
POWELL — Chad Eagleton said he has always enjoyed caring for animals. On this particular day, dogs play outside, fish swim in tanks throughout the house and Eagleton sits in his den where 29 Budgerigar Parakeets dart back and forth in a homemade atrium in the corner of the room.
Roughly two...
BUFFALO — For more than 50 years, Dave Harness called his mother. He called her on December 7, when they last saw Tony, smiling for the camera and wearing his U.S. Army dress greens as he left Kalispell, Montana.
He called her on February 22, Tony's birthday, when he might have gone out into the...
SUNDANCE — As one of the only operational uranium mines in Wyoming with the better part of a decade of production under its belt, Strata Energy’s Ross Project was a natural site for U.S. Sen. John Barrasso and Gov. Gordon to speak with representatives of the industry about what can be done to...
CHEYENNE — A sense of urgency filled the hours of testimony heard Wednesday by the Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Education Committee in Casper.
Stakeholders with backgrounds spanning public health, family services and education described a mental health crisis among youth and a lack of resources to...
Photo by Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile
FOR WYOFILE:
The pathway to federal funds is uncertain for Kemmerer and Diamondville despite major infrastructure needs to host a nuclear power plant project.
KEMMERER—When a 16-inch diameter ductile-iron municipal water pipeline failed this spring, a crew dug in for repairs. They found that...
Knowing how to intervene, what to say can create safer spaces for drinking, dining.
JACKSON — When Community Safety Network Director of Education and Outreach Adrian Croke brought a new training to Jackson, she was surprised how quickly it sold out.
Several local restaurants, bars, and...
Effort also seeks to combat vilification of Wyoming teachers
CASPER — Laramie County resident Jen Solis started going to her local district’s school board meetings in July of 2021, just around the time when debates at these meetings started shifting from COVID masking to school library books.
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CHEYENNE — State lawmakers have been tasked with studying how to reopen the Wyoming Cowboy Challenge Academy following its closure in September due to sustained staff vacancies and safety concerns.
The Wyoming Military Department made it clear Thursday to the Joint Transportation, Highways and...
It is officially wildfire season, and with fire, there is smoke. People living in Weston County and the surrounding area have gotten their first breath of wildfire smoke over the past week as Canadian wildfires, coupled with wind patterns, have blown smoke in and out of the area since late last...
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