Basin News

The Prescription Drug Awareness Forum was held Tuesday at the Lovell Community Center.

The hard freeze stopped the sugar beet harvest in Northwest Wyoming. Farmers there had been rushing to get as many beets to the processing plant as possible because an October freeze damaged the crops.

Local legislators, law enforcement, medical providers and concerned citizens of Big Horn County and throughout Wyoming are invited to attend a forum being put on by the Prescription Drug Awareness Committee next week.

Jackson Hole, Wyo.-Natural gas is the cleanest of the fossil fuels. Used primarily to heat homes and make electricity, it emits 23-percent less carbon dioxide than oil.

Citizens attending Tuesday's Lovell Town Council meeting urged the town to keep battling for those who want to clean their yards through the open burning process.

Roundup Ready sugar beets aren't the only crop grown at the University of Wyoming's Powell Research and Extension Center , but they certainly draw attention from growers in the Big Horn Basin.

The crash scene was certainly eye-catching, but a pair of Lovell area men were able to walk away from a one-vehicle rollover 12 miles south of Lovell on U.S. Highway 310 Monday morning.

BASIN, Wyo. - Authorities say they're still looking for an Indiana teen who slipped into a high-flowing creek in northern Wyoming four days ago.

Northwest Wyoming has had a recent bout of precipitation, causing rivers to surge and mountaintops to be covered with another layer of spring snow.