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The Jackson Planning Commission endorsed a request to allow 10 long-term residential units at the Pearl at Jackson development to be sold as short-term rental units if the buyer chooses to do so.

An 18-year-old Jackson man was one of two people killed in a one-vehicle rollover Thursday morning outside Afton, the Wyoming Highway Patrol reported.

Town and county leaders today are expected to discuss an election to renew a 1 percent sales tax, a constitutional amendment that would ban a real estate tax and the comprehensive plan.

Additional housing units should not be funneled to Wilson, South Park, The Aspens and Teton Village.

Officials with Jackson Hole Mountain Resort say fewer employees will be hired for this year's ski season.

Lawmakers from around the West couldn't reach consensus on how to address coal-fired power plant emissions as they closed a three-day symposium on energy issues Tuesday.

Western leaders working together on energy issues should realize that cooperation means no one state is going to get exactly what it wants, Wyoming Gov.

Other Headlines Power County Sheriff Jim Jeffries says Rodolfo Ortega, one of the two men who escaped from the Power County Jail Sunday morning, has been arrested.

WYEnergy Symposium,0124 Western states stress energy cooperation Eds: APNewsNow.

The Jackson Town Council this afternoon will discuss how it can put some teeth in the municipal code to address underage drinking.

Jackson, Teton County and Lower Valley Energy officials today are scheduled to sign what they are billing as a historic agreement in which they will pledge to work toward reducing carbon emissions and energy consumption.

Jackson Hole, Wyo.-Bishop Gene Robinson, the first openly gay, non-celibate priest to become bishop in a major Christian denomination, is set to lead devotionals and talk about his role with community members later this week.

Town and county planning board members have recommended the new comprehensive plan not include a transferable development rights program.

A group of alternative health care providers will make a second visit to help the Jackson Hole Latino community this weekend.

The Wyoming Department of Transportation announced Tuesday it has applied for $35.5 million in federal economic stimulus funds to complete an improvement project along the 38-mile Togwotee Pass corridor.

An alert from Jackson, Wyoming: Clubbing the Classics: The Gothic Novel Wednesday, October 14, 5:30-6:45 This event is a book discussion with local bibliophile Nicole Burdick on Wuthering Heights, a novel by Emily Bronte.

A Russian woman who married a Jackson resident in 2007 will be deported after serving about two months in a federal prison for evading immigration laws through marriage fraud, according to a release from U.S. district court.

Jackson Town councilors scheduled a meeting for later this month to review the planned mixed-use development tool.

The Jackson Town Council this week unanimously approved a new office building along Maple Way, approved additional square footage for an office and residential project just east of the intersection of Highway 22 and Broadway, and allowed an extended construction period for a planned mixed-use development along Broadway.

The Gunsight Fire moved to the north Tuesday, growing to more than 2,400 acres as winds picked up and fire spotted among beetle-killed whitebark pine.