Rock Springs News Archives

Sweetwater County authorities say the shooting death of a 24-year-old Rock Springs man over the weekend appears to be an accident.

Officials with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management say a BLM employee has been arrested in connection with the June shooting deaths of 3 wild horses as the agency's holding corrals in Rock Springs.

Jackson Hole, Wyo.-Noted vascular surgeon and author John Kenagy shared his opinion of President Obama's healthcare plan with Huffington Post on Sept.

Wyoming U.S. Rep. Cynthia Lummis has passed her first piece of legislation out of the U.S. House, a bill commemorating the 50th anniversary of Western Wyoming Community College in Rock Springs.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's initial assessment of how much water could be diverted in coming decades from the Green River basin in Wyoming is far less than the amount a private entrepreneur has applied to draw for a planned pipeline to Colorado, agency officials said.

The Green River City Council has decided to continue participating in a cooperative agreement for air service between Rock Springs and Salt Lake City.

A grizzly bear mauled a sheep herder in Sublette County early Monday morning after the man reportedly heard the sow and her cubs attacking the flock.

BROWN'S PARK, Daggett County - If getting "far from the madding crowd" has its appeal, you couldn't get more pleasantly removed from the urban hurly-burly than Brown's Park, in extreme northwestern Colorado and "east-northern" Utah - that is, northeast of Vernal.

An entrepreneur proposing to build a multi-billion-dollar pipeline to carry water from Wyoming to Colorado says he's considering reducing the amount of water he's seeking.