Local News

Press Release – Crime Stoppers needs your help in solving a destruction of property that occurred at the 100 block of N. Wind River Ave near Moorcroft Wyoming. On or around January 28, 2017, the Mayor of Moorcroft reported unknown persons removed lug nuts from a white GMC flatbed truck, resulting in the truck loosing […]

Press Release – The Campbell County Rockpile Museum has opened a new exhibit in our temporary gallery: West Across the Skies: Air Transportation in Wyoming. The exhibit contains thirty-nine photographs and information panels representing the state’s aviation history, from barnstormers to commercial aviation. Part of the Wyoming State Museum’s traveling exhibit program, West Across the […]

Press Release  – The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) will host a cooperative working group meeting on Wed., June 7, from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., at the Campbell County Fire Department Training Center, 701 Larch St., in Gillette, Wyo. This will be the third of six scheduled gatherings in 2017 for the land management and […]

Press Release – The Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) is seeking feedback on its plan for the coming years to continue serving Wyoming’s rapidly aging population through programs offered by its Aging Division. The number of Wyoming residents over the age of 65 is expected to grow from about 90,000 individuals in 2016 to 138,000 […]

Press Release – On Friday, June 2, at approximately 2 pm, Devils Tower National Monument staff were alerted that a rock climber had been injured in a fall.   Responding staff discovered the climber’s partners and local climbers in the process of lowering the injured climber to the ground.  A physician accompanying the local ambulance determined […]

Press Release – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., released the following statement on President Trump’s announcement that the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. “I applaud President Trump for making the decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement. The choice by the former Administration to join the agreement without any […]

Press Release —Fur Kids Foundation is proud to announce its first ever The Fast and the FURriest Fun Walk at Dalbey Memorial Park in Gillette, Wyoming! The fun walk fundraiser takes place on Saturday, June 3 to help kick off Pet Appreciation Week, held June 4-10.   This fun walk allows families to get out […]

Press Release—From April 28-May 6, 2017, citizens in Campbell County, Wyoming collected 663 bags of roadside trash during Keep Gillette Beautiful’s Coal Country Trash-A-Thon. Keep Gillette Beautiful estimates that there were more than 115 community volunteers and more than 35 groups who helped clean up more than 24 miles of roadway during the Coal Country […]

Press Release – It was nearly two years ago when Gillette local, Alison Ochs Gee, approached the Wyoming Community Foundation. She had been thinking a lot about the community she loved and ways that she could give back. Gee knew that if she created an endowed fund with the Community Foundation, she would be able to […]

It was announced last tonight that Gillette City Administrator Carter Napier will become the new City Manager for the City of Casper. City Attorney Patrick Davidson has been named Interim City Administrator. Administrator Napier made himself available to answer questions from the media 3rd Floor Conference Room at City Hall this morning. Napier said his last […]