Lander News

Following a 45-day public comment period, the Fremont County Solid Waste Disposal District Monday adopted a set of revised rules and regulations that includes the controversial section on covered loads.

The Lander City Council is scheduled to hold a public hearing, followed by a vote on the more than $5 million general fund budget Tuesday evening.

Fire in the hole! Lander Mayor Mick Wolfe announced on Monday that the coast is clear for people inside Lander City Limits to blow up fireworks on the Fourth of July.

Stephanie Armstrong , 32, Riverton, Driving Under the Influence. From Undersheriff Ryan Lee: "A REDDI report resulted in a Deputy locating the vehicle which had subsequently crashed into a sign on the Bass Lake Road.

Friday marked the end of a week-long entrepreneurship camp that Native American Youth from around the county have been attending.

A group of visiting Rotarians from India are being hosted in Lander for the next three days on a reciprocal Friendship Exchange.

The Lander City Council approved a second reading of an ordinance prohibiting the feeding of certain wildlife on Tuesday evening.

The Wyoming State Legislature's Select Committee on Federal Natural Resource Management is meeting in Riverton today at Central Wyoming College.

The Fremont County Museum Board agreed today to allow the elected officials of Fremont County to stage an "ice breaking reception" inside the Pioneer Museum in Lander this fall.

Fremont County Coroner Ed McAuslan has identified Chase Schweitzer, 19, of Arkdale, Wis., as the deceased from Wednesday evening's wreck on Highway 789 outside of Lander.

Cliff Williams , 26, Lander, Driving Under Suspension and No Proof of Insurance.

A concert by the Glen Miller Orchestra to benefit the CSM Kevin Griffin Memorial will be hosted Wednesday, June 19th at the CWC Peck Theatre, beginning at 7 p.m. In addition to the concert, live and silent auctions will take place with proceeds of the concert and auctions to be donated to construct and install the Kevin Griffin Memorial bronze ... (more)

The general session of the Wyoming Association of Municipalities annual conference is on tap this morning at the James.

A plea agreement has been reached in case against Jeremy Wade Cunningham, who alleged fired a rifle into an occupied vehicle south of Lander in January.

Two of the six suspects arrested in a recent methamphetamine distribution bust pleaded not guilty this afternoon in Wyoming's Ninth District Court.

Patrick Vincent Duran, 24, of Riverton, pleaded not guilty to second degree attempted murder and aggravated assault in Wyoming's Ninth District Court in Lander.

Fremont County Coroner Ed McAuslan has released the official autopsy results for 62-year-old Curtis LeClair who was missing for 10 days and found in a canal near Pilot Butte Reservoir on May 20. McAuslan said the cause of death was drowning asphyxia and the manner of death as accidental.

A portion of Highway 28 at Red Canyon is blocked from both directions due to a vehicle fire.

Fremont County Coroner Ed McAuslan said a 19-year-old man from Arkdale, Wis., died of "massive head injury" in yesterday evening's fatal wreck on Highway 789.

With virtually no discussion and no comment from the public, the Lander City Council unanimously approved on Tuesday night lifting the open container ban for July Fourth.