Carbon County, WY

CASPER, Wyo. — Nathon Christopher Gallant was found unresponsive in a Carbon County Detention Center jail cell at around 7:36 pm Thursday, according to a Carbon County Sheriff’s Office press release. An ambulance was requested and attempts were made to resuscitate Gallant, but these proved ineffective. He was pronounced dead...

CARBON COUNTY — By 7:15 a.m. Wednesday, the North Platte River Treasure Island Public Access Area was already a busy place. “The water is awfully low, but the fishing is still good,” said Perry Grosvenor, a guide with High Plains Fly Fishing out of Laramie. “You just have to find the deeper holes to find the fish.”

CARBON COUNTY, Wyo. (KIFI) - The Robertson Draw Fire is threatening some homes in the Beartooth Mountains near Montana's border with Wyoming. The Carbon County Sheriff's Office began to issue evacuation notices Monday afternoon. Red Lodge Fire and Rescue says no structures are threatened yet, but they are taking an...

Nine more Wyoming residents have died of COVID-19, including two older women from Laramie County, the Wyoming Department of Health confirmed Tuesday. An older adult Carbon County man died earlier this month. He was hospitalized and had health conditions known to put people at higher risk of serious illness. An...

On Sunday June 13, a resident of Laramie could have looked northwest and seen a pillar of smoke rising from Medicine Bow National Forest. While this fire was easily contained within the day by firefighters in Carbon County, the United States Forest Service is prepared for worse. Aaron Voos, the...

The Hanna Basin Museum was recently given access to an audience in the millions. ARD German Radio & TV is the largest public broadcasting network in Europe. It serves 60 plus radio stations with over 39.7 million listeners. The website has approximately 2 million hits a day. While Hanna Basin...

Each year, the Valley Service Organization (VSO) presents two awards in May. The first is the Woman of Distinction, which goes to a woman or group of women who have had a positive impact on the North Platte Valley. The second is the Youth Citizenship Award. This award, in the...

RAWLINS — Memorial Hospital of Carbon County said it is continuing to expand medical resources available to the residents through the addition of clinic-based mental health services. Due to a growing demand for mental health treatment options across the United States, particularly. in rural areas, MHCC is implementing the MHCC...

Due to a growing demand for mental health treatment options across the United States, particularly in rural areas, Memorial Hospital of Carbon County is implementing the MHCC Health and Wellness Center. Services will initially be based from the MHCC Family Practice Clinic in Rawlins and will extend to other clinic locations based on demand. The addition is meant to supplement existing mental health resources already present in Carbon County.

CHEYENNE – The deaths of nine more Wyoming residents have been tied to the coronavirus, the Wyoming Department of Health announced Tuesday. The department said the residents of Carbon, Converse, Fremont, Laramie, Lincoln and Sweetwater counties died between December and May, bringing the total number of Wyoming residents whose deaths have been linked to the illness to 734.

Last fall, the Mullen fire west of Laramie raged for the better part of two months, burning more than 176,000 acres and 70 structures in Carbon and Albany counties, and in Jackson County, Colorado. Unfortunately, this scenario was typical during the intense 2020 fire season in the Rocky Mountain region,...

The headache of Senate File 60 and ad valorem taxes is continuing for county treasurers and will likely turn into one for county assessors as well. At the June 1 meeting of the Board of Carbon County Commissioners (BOCCC), Treasurer Patty Bentsen gave an update on the progress, or lack thereof, the Wyoming County Treasurers Association (WCTA) had made in speaking with the Wyoming Department of Revenue. According to Bentsen, the WCTA had met with both the Wyoming County Commissioners Association (WCCA) and the department of revenue a week prior.

Construction of the $3 billion TransWest Express transmission line will start in 2022 and the 732-mile (1,178 km) line will open for service in 2025, Roxane Perruso, chief operating officer of TransWest Express LLC, said during a panel session on the transmission renaissance in the US West at on day three of the Clean Power 2022 virtual summit.

ENCAMPMENT – The first forest fire of 2021 reported in Carbon County is burning in the Sierra Madre Mountains of the Medicine Bow National Forest west of Encampment. Aaron Voos, the public affairs specialist with the U.S. Forest Service Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland office in Laramie, acknowledged on Monday that there was a “fairly small” fire of approximately 26 acres on the North Fork of the Little Snake River.

While the regular football and basketball seasons may be over, Encampment's Dalton Peterson has a busy off-season as he transitions from high school to college. The salutatorian of Encampment's Class of 2021 has already donned pads one last time as he competed in the Six-Man All-Star game this past weekend. He'll get his hands on a basketball this weekend as well as he competed in the Wyoming All-Star Basketball game. Peterson was named to the Six-Man roster in February to the All-Star Roster in May.