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Travel council hires search company to find new head

The Park County Travel Council has hired a top executive search firm to find its next executive director. At Thursday’s monthly meeting, the council agreed unanimously to adopt the … more

By Zac Taylor | 5/20/25

Woman caught with fentanyl pills gets six-year sentence

At a hearing last week, family members and supporters of Korinne McKay spoke at length as to how the last two years of the Cody woman’s life — including getting caught with 7,000 fentanyl … more

By CJ Baker | 5/20/25

Northwest College student Kinley Bollinger (center) opens up a special percussion concert on April 29 where Northwest College showcased a roughly 100-year-old xylophone made out of old growth Honduran rosewood. The students played ragtime music, a genre as old as the instrument they played on. From left, Matthew Blutt, Olivia Thomas, Assistant Professor of Music Zach Paris, Bollinger, Shalin Slater and Karson Brennan.

Rare and beautiful: Antique xylophone steals the show

At Northwest College a roughly 100-year-old musical instrument sits in Assistant Professor of Music Zach Paris’ office. He called the Deagan 200 Series Artist’s Special the … more

By Braden Schiller | 5/20/25

Eggs and chicks, like these long-billed curlew chicks, are often targets of mammals raiding nests, including deer mice.

Songbirds declining in the sagebrush sea

Dr. Anna Chalfoun and a student research assistant popped the cork on a bottle of champagne, celebrating the first recapture of a songbird fitted with a backpack geolocator they deployed a year … more

By Mark Davis | 5/20/25

Powell groups joining Memorial Day ceremony in Cody

A Memorial Day event in Cody will honor the men and women who’ve died in service to the United States. Everyone is invited to gather at the Wyoming Veterans Memorial Park at 1:30 p.m. on … more

5/20/25

Wilson Brothers Construction crews performed erosion work this spring on the U.S. Highway 14/16/20 project west of Cody, which has been suspended for the summer tourist season.

Erosion repair project suspended west of Cody

Work on a $3.57 million erosion repair and guardrail replacement project has been suspended until after Labor Day along the edge of Buffalo Bill Reservoir west of Cody. The contract with prime … more

5/20/25

Yellowstone National Park trapped and killed a boar grizzly that had repeatedly sought out human food sources, including in these overturned bear-resistant dumpsters in the Nez Perce Picnic Area.

Food-conditioned grizzly trapped and killed in Yellowstone

Yellowstone National Park staff trapped and killed an 11-year-old male grizzly bear on May 14 after the bear repeatedly sought out human food sources in developed areas of the park. Between April 3 … more

5/20/25

Wyoming’s housing market stabilizes with a statewide average price of $400,000

Realtors say the housing market in Wyoming is stabilizing, although no longer can most buyers find a home, shop and an acre of land for a few hundred thousand dollars. During the COVID-19 … more

By Carrie Haderlie, The Sheridan Press Via Wyoming News Exchange | 5/20/25

Paternity, pain and peer pressure

After finishing her first marathon, Nancy West pulled off her shoes and socks and realized the rigors of the race cost her a toenail. When West crossed the line in the Mountains 2 Beach marathon … more

By Mark Davis | 5/16/25

Powell Swim Club member Tristan Timmons rests at the wall during a late April practice. Timmons is a part of the 61st year of the Powell Swim Club.

61 years of Powell Swim Club

In 1964 the Powell High School swim team was a force, and with a new community pool, swimming was popular — so naturally, that year the Powell Swim Club was born. Just over six decades … more

By Braden Schiller | 5/16/25

Powell youth enjoy the warm weather as they tube down the hill at Homesteader Park during Water Fun, part of Powell Rec’s Summer Academy classes. From left, Ethan Welch, Aria McLeod and Madi Baker (in the inner tube), Bodi Cooley, Savanna Spomer, Dorian Barker and Reagan Haag-Saucido.

Powell Recreation District offers summer fun

Kids looking for something fun to do this summer have plenty of options, as the Powell Recreation District is again offering a wide variety of programs, camps, classes and more. The schedule … more

By CJ Baker | 5/16/25

The Cody Dauntless location, the fourth such gym operated by the Bair family out of Lovell, is expected to open late summer and will be the biggest of any of the gyms in the Big Horn Basin.

Club Dauntless Cody location slated for late summer opening

For Stacy Bair, who owns Club Dauntless with her husband Devin, the size and appearance of the gyms are part of the design. “We knew that we wanted to do something for the community … more

By Zac Taylor | 5/16/25

Dr. Mike Tracy, a Powell resident is fundraising alongside the Continental Divide Trail Coalition for the Two Ocean Trail Project. In August, Tracy and a small team will hike 18 miles into a remote stretch of trail where they will clear out fallen trees and undergrowth, returning it to its original path. Pictured are Colin Harnish (left), Mike’s daughter Anya Tracy, and Gary Harnish.

Leave it better than you found it

In August, a remote 12-mile portion of the Continental Divide Trail —the Parting of the Waters over the Two Ocean Plateau to Fox Park in Yellowstone — will receive a facelift with … more

By Braden Schiller | 5/16/25

High rates of long COVID reported around the globe

A new study across 13 middle- and high-income countries reveals that 25% of patients reported symptoms of long Covid after symptomatic COVID-19. Among the 25.1% of participants who said they … more

By Mark Davis | 5/16/25

Wisdom Health plans to open its doors mid-May

Over 90% of serotonin, a hormone that regulates mood and contentment, is produced in the gut, not the brain, says Dr. Lynn Horton, a family practitioner with nearly 40 years of experience. … more

By Katie Morrison, Tribune intern | 5/16/25

A group of local residents led a $120,000 fundraising campaign last year that enabled the purchase of a new glass pulverizer for Powell Valley Recycling. It turns bottles and other glass objects into sand and cullet.

Glass now recycled in Powell

After a long hiatus, glass is again being recycled in Powell. It was over a decade ago that the Powell Valley Recycling Center stopped accepting glass, but “people have still been … more

By CJ Baker | 5/15/25

Cultural exchange: Children’s Day at Heart Mountain features art

As kids streamed into the Mineta-Simpson Institute, Heart Mountain Foundation Wyoming employees and volunteers prepared to share Japanese culture. Organizers passed on a lecture. Instead, they taught … more

By Mark Davis | 5/15/25

NWC board: Concealed carry policy advances

Starting July 1, anyone with a concealed carry permit will be legally able to carry a concealed firearm throughout most areas of the Northwest College campus. In order to provide guidance to … more

By Zac Taylor | 5/15/25

County regulations: First phase amendments close to being finalized

After numerous meetings between Park County commissioners and planning and zoning members, phase one of the amended development standards and regulations are close to being finalized. … more

By Zac Taylor | 5/15/25

Powell Middle School student Noah MacDonald (in yellow) helps release the fish he and his class have cared for over the past five months into Homesteader Pond on May 5 while Patrick Croft (left) films the event and members of Powell Middle School’s seventh and eighth grade classes watch carefully.

El fin: Powell Middle School class finishes Trout in Classroom project

Powell Middle School’s Life Skills Lite and Life Skills students dumped five months of hard work out of several coolers and into Homesteader Pond on May 5. The students helped tip the … more

By Braden Schiller | 5/15/25