Rawlins News

An 82-year-old inmate who was serving more than 15 years in prison for sex offenses in Sheridan County has died at a Rawlins hospital.

The Wyoming Department of Health is attributing a second Carbon County death this month to hantavirus.

A missing Brookswood trucker was found dead inside his rig at a Wyoming rest stop Monday night.

Officials with Carbon County and the city of Rawlins are voicing concern about a proposed expansion of a natural gas processing plant.

Harley-Davidson Ultra Classic rider from Casper was killed Sunday,, June 1, 26 miles north of Medicine Bow in Carbon County.

A Casper man died Sunday when his Harley-Davidson motorcycle crashed along Highway 487, according to the Wyoming Highway Patrol.

To fish or not to fish: That is the question. For tiny Teton Reservoir, anyway. Designed to collect silt from area streams and creeks before it reaches the North Platte River, the popular fishing lake south of ...

A jury in Rawlins has found a man guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of another man. via KIFI Idaho Falls

A book that recorded early mining and land transactions in Carbon County in the late 1890s has been discovered missing from the county courthouse in Rawlins. via Montana's News Station

The slaughter this winter of almost one-third of Yellowstone National Park's wild bison will benefit food banks across Montana. via Montana's News Station

A proposal to have Carbon County Jail inmates assist at the animal shelter in Rawlins is being considered. via KIFI Idaho Falls

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has asked the Wyoming Game and Fish Department not to restock Teton Reservoir with fish. via Montana's News Station

“It was a real blog post, not something manufactured for a glossy magazine. It was a chronology of Paw Paw's last day. The captions, as written by Paw Paw, were brief and so not about perfection and good things, but about a good life.”

So many of us blog to connect, so today we'd like to focus on a few ways we're meeting up and connecting in real life. via Everything TypePad

“The Torrington facility will be a big help.”

Last weekend the Wyoming Department of Corrections moved 226 inmates to correctional facilities in Virginia. via The Torrington Telegram

“I don't think it's a good thing for the community, but it doesn't do any good to oppose it. It's already there”

With the opening of a $30 million casino this spring, the Northern Arapaho Tribe is betting that its earlier ventures into Las Vegas-style gambling have whet Wyoming's appetite for more high-stakes slot machines and card games.

The tribe plans to open the 45,000-square-foot casino overlooking Riverton on May 1, nearly three years after a federal appeals court ruled that the tribe could open Class III gambling operations without signing a compact with the state.

'For those that like to gamble, it's going to be a big draw,' said Jim Conrad, general manager of the Wind River Casino. 'They've experienced that they get more play time with us than any of the states around us.' Read more

“For Wyoming, that is an incredible number. We haven't seen this type of excitement in the Democratic Party in many, many years.”

While they're both Democrats who serve in Red states, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, D-Kansas, and Wyoming Sen. via Laramie Daily Boomerang

“The workshop is intended to cover several key topics of interest to landowners, and it is being held because participants in a stakeholder survey completed last year expressed interest in gaining more knowledge in these areas”

Two workshops are being held for landowners and interested persons in areas of coal-bed methane development this March in Sheridan and Rawlins. via High Plains Journal

Long-time Rawlins, Wyo., resident and Wyoming native James Howard Hawk passed away Feb. via The Torrington Telegram

Asbestos is being removed from Memorial Hospital of Carbon County. Hospital administrators are closing four rooms at a time to perform the work. via Billings Gazette

The Wyoming Highway Patrol expects to fill 16 trooper vacancies around the state after graduating a new class of recruits this week. via Rapid City Journal