Fort Washakie News

The death of a 29-year-old Riverton man has been ruled accidental from multiple drug intoxication.

Today is Community Planting Day on the Wind River Reservation at the Eastern Shoshone Boys and Girls Club and at the Wind River Tribal College.

Students enrolled in a Central Wyoming College course are learning construction and facilities maintenance skills while building a facility for an organization with similar goals.

Authorities say a fire that destroyed a trailer in Fort Washakie was started by a child who was playing with a lighter.

Heide Bush , 37, Lander, cited for Larceny. LPD Chief Jim Carey said officers were called to the Maverik gas station for a report of a gas drive-off. Bush allegedly did not pay for $50.03 worth of fuel.

Fort Washakie and Lander Rural firefighters responded to a report of a structure fire northwest of Fort Washakie at 7:07 p.m. A fire burned through a trailer that was being used for storage, Lander Rural Chief Dave Peevey said at the scene.

The Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Department of Transportation invites the public to comment on draft sections of the Wind River Canyon Scenic Byway Corridor Management Plan as they become available.

County10.com's Joshua Scheer who is on scene reports that the gas line leak occurred when a person drilling a fence post hole went too deep and drilled into a natural gas line, according to Kenneth Ferris, a captain of the Fort Washakie Fire Battalion.

They will be recognized at the American Indian Studies Honoring of Graduates ceremony at 6 p.m. Friday, May 10, in the Garden Ballroom of the UW Conference Center, located at 22nd Street and Grand Avenue in the Hilton Garden Inn.

The United Tribes Powwow at Central Wyoming College this year has drawn a record number of dancers, 176, up 29 from last year.

Nearly 1 in 5 students in Wyoming high schools failed to graduate on time last year as the state graduation rate fell slightly to about 79 percent in 2011-12, according to Wyoming Department of Education figures released Friday.

The Lander Rural Fire Department is finishing putting out a small series of grass fires that the chief has deemed suspicious.