Fort Washakie News

Friday was stopped just after 3 a.m. this morning near the intersection of North 2nd Street and Jefferson.

A 24-year-old Fort Hall woman was killed in a one-vehicle crash about six miles east of Shoshoni, Wyo.

The Fremont County Sheriff's Office received a call at 3:40 Wednesday morning of a pregnant woman having contractions in the Lost Wells Butte area.

A 25-year-old Fort Washakie man was sentenced in Federal District Court in Cheyenne this month to time served for his role in an assault that occurred on the Wind River Indian Reservation.

The Eastern Shoshone Tribe's General Council meeting Saturday at Rocky Mountain Hall was interrupted when an alleged bomb threat was apparently called in.

Multiple road construction projects are underway across Fremont County this week, with work taking place on Highway 287 outside of Fort Washakie, on the 17-Mile-Road near Ethete and on the Eight Mile Road near Midvale.

These runners with the Eagle Staff Runners Association took part in a four mile run Thursday morning for National Prayer Day - Fourteen runners with the Eagle Staff Runners Association carried on a tradition Thursday morning created by elders nearly two decades ago; to promote humbleness, charity, prayer, serve the community and have strength to ... (more)

Fort Washakie's High School is located in two buildings on the the K-8 campus, in a portable structure, at left, and in a combination gymnasium/classroom facility at right.