Big Horn County News

The Wyoming Dept. of Environmental Quality Air Quality Division has granted a "limited" setback waiver that will allow two weekends of open burning in the Lovell town limits.

Marvin Lynn Tilley, 58, was extradited from Montana to Big Horn County to face six felony sex crimes against children alleged to have taken place in the 1970s and 1980s.

The National Park Service is trying to find the culprits behind a Wyoming ghost town cemetery vandalism spree that damaged several historic tombstones.

A 58-year-old Wyoming man accused of rape and other sex crimes against children in that state starting three decades ago is being held in the Yellowstone County jail in Billings.

A complaint has been filed in the 5th Judicial District Court of Big Horn County against the Town of Lovell and a Lovell police officer that alleges the officer's negligence led to a murder/suicide involving two Lovell residents in November of 2007.

Federal officials captured and removed about 300 wild horses in northern Wyoming this week in a continuing effort to reduce the animals' numbers to more manageable levels.

Originally published October 28, 2009 at 10:43 a.m., updated October 28, 2009 at 11:47 a.m. SHELL, Wyo.

Eleutian Technologies, headquartered in Ten Sleep, began doing business in Lovell in July of 2007, with the opening of a branch office on Main Street that would serve as a meeting place for area teachers and their students located around the globe.

The Big Horn County Commissioners voted Tuesday to send a letter and resolution to Governor Dave Freudenthal seeking a disaster declaration to assist the sugar beet, dry beans and alfalfa seed growers.

When the first freeze of the fall happens, it is usually a sign to beet farmers to step up their harvest efforts and get the remainder of their beets out of the ground.

The state lost 900 jobs over the month, but Wyoming's unemployment rate still remains below the nationwide rate of 9.8 percent.

Citizens who attend the dedication of the newly remodeled Byron Town Complex Saturday will see a building that has been transformed from a dusty old storage building into a town hall and multi-use complex that may well be the envy of towns across Big Horn County.

Teton County in August had the second lowest unemployment rate in Wyoming, according to statistics the state released Wednesday.

The Lovell Rod and Gun Club is in the process of making a number of improvements at the Lovell Trap Range northeast of town, but the changes have not come without some rough spots along the way.

A former Greybull man has pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor poaching charge and no contest to three more.

The Town of Lovell would like public input concerning a proposed ban on texting while driving that was brought to the town council's attention during last Tuesday's September council meeting.

BLM begins rounding up Pryor Mountain mustangs in Wyoming Law enforcement officers from the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service and the Big Horn County sheriff's office were on hand to keep a lid on protests of the scheduled roundup of Pryor Mountain wild horses that began Thursday on the 38,000-acre Pryor ...

The Wyoming Constitution Party has never before been on the ballot, although in the past, the party has qualified its presidential candidate in Wyoming as an independent.

The Wyoming Constitution Party has never before been on the ballot, although in the past, the party has qualified its presidential candidate in Wyoming as an independent.

The Wyoming Constitution Party has never before been on the ballot, although in the past, the party has qualified its presidential candidate in Wyoming as an independent.