Basin News

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

It will be the organization's third visit to the Big Horn Basin - and also its longest, with three full weeks of activities that will stretch into mid June.

Adopt a wild horse for $25! In response to public interest, the Bureau of Land Management Rock Springs Field Office announced today that it will continue to offer mares for adoption at the special incentive fee of $25 each through May 31.

The Wyoming Transportation Commission awarded $28.6 million in highway construction contracts last Thursday, including $22.2 million for the first 15 Wyoming road projects to be funded with federal economic stimulus program money.

The community is invited to attend a departure ceremony for the soldiers with the Wyoming Army National Guard's C-Battery, 2nd Battalion, 300th Field Artillery being deployed to Kuwait.

Jeff Hanson, a district team leader for the regional discounter, said truckloads of merchandise have already arrived, and that as of Tuesday, 75 to 80 percent of the store's inventory was in place.

As of March 1st, most snow packs were below average throughout the county, except in Star Valley.

As of February 1st, the area side snow packs are some where between 75 to 98 percent of normal, depending on where you are located in southwest Wyoming.

Attracting ag labor, soil moisture monitoring, crop nutrient research and controlling salt cedar and Russian olive trees are among numerous topics at Wyoming Extension's Strategically and Technologically ...

Teton Energy Corp. , Denver, plans to drill its first well on its acreage in the Big Horn Basin in northwestern Wyoming.

Times may be tight, but Basinites will still give it up for a good cause and for good art.

Property tax relief was among the major agenda items when state legislators and commissioners from four Big Horn Basin counties met recently in Cody.

There's a scholarship with your name on it at Northwest College if you didn't enroll in an NWC credit class during the 2008 calendar year.

Fundraising for an eight-bed hospice house in Cody has nearly reached $1 million.

The ABATE store will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Dec. 21-23 at the Harley-Davidson-Buell building, 3300 Conestoga Drive.

Eliza Beck , 10, poses in a gingerbread man cutout as her friend Shana Brown, 10, takes a picture with her cell phone during the annual Buffalo Bill Historical Center Holiday Open House on Saturday.

Deeds: Digital TV conversion is a great excuse to buy an HDTV Comments Although Bogus Basin season-pass holders might disagree, staring at snow is not usually considered fun.

The first public comment period for a federal plan that will establish how oil, gas, coal, grazing, wildlife and other resources are managed for the next 20 years in the Powder River Basin begins Friday.

Four Big Horn Basin counties recently submitted a joint 21-page document commenting to the BLM about its Resource Management Plan revision.