Moorcroft News

Anglers have diverse opportunities while fishing northeast Wyoming. Game fish species vary from northern pike and walleye in Keyhole Reservoir to golden trout and grayling in Bighorn Mountain lakes.

The Wyoming Transportation Commission awarded $51.5 million in highway construction contracts last Thursday, including $36 million for projects to be funded with federal economic stimulus program money.

The bill would also give Gillette a loan of more than $5 million from the state.

SUNDANCE a " Prosecutors say they will not seek the death penalty against a Moorcroft woman accused of stabbing her husband to death.

Gillette Mayor Duane Evenson says the city plans to seek about $20 million in the coming legislative session for design and preliminary work on a planned 42-mile water pipeline.

A convicted arsonist who robbed a bank in Wyoming days after escaping from an Indiana prison has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.

Another tree has fallen, and nobody heard a sound. Sometime Sunday night in Moorcroft, a 5-foot evergreen tree on the west side of town near the entrance on Highway 14 was chopped down and taken.