Park County News

The Wyoming Transportation Commission awarded $39.1 million in highway construction contracts Thursday, including $38.2 million to be funded with federal economic stimulus program money.

Mothers of first graders in Powell this Mothera s Day were the beneficiaries of nurturing.

April 3, 2009 - CODY -- A former Red Lodge real estate broker who pleaded guilty in January to writing a bad check for $155,000 is being sued in Park County for $200,000. Jeanne Rizzotto, who has been in the national media spotlight for raising two chimpanzees as family members, has faced legal difficulties in her efforts to develop a series of ...

Most of the malnourished horses involved in an animal-cruelty case in northern Wyoming are recovering in new homes in Park County.

Hundreds of Park County residents celebrated their county's 100th birthday in Cody.

Contracts totaling $31.1 million for 12 highway projects around the state, including five made possible by the additional funding the 2008 Legislature appropriated for highway construction, were awarded by the ...

Wyominga s bear management team had a busy year in 2008 addressing conflicts and when necessary, capturing and relocating bears that were causing problems.

Climbers Keith Spencer and Mark Jenkins of Laramie were ice climbing Friday near the top of a oeThe Main Veina on the upper South Fork when an avalanche from about 2,000 feet above killed Spencer.

Property tax relief was among the major agenda items when state legislators and commissioners from four Big Horn Basin counties met recently in Cody.

City and county governments face various challenges in 2009 a " all in the face of an economy that will hopefully start to recover instead of diving to greater depths in the next few months.

In todaya s issue youa ll find the stories the Enterprise staff ranked as the top from 2008.

BY BRAD DEVEREAUX When residents of the north end of Big Horn County set out to form a fire district to cover the areas of Deaver and Frannie in March, their sights were set on December 2008 to begin fire ...

Five people have applied for mayor-elect Nancy Tia Browna s city council seat. The Ward 3 seat will be vacated after Brown is sworn in as mayor at the councila s Jan.

Susie Wilson plays the piano for her students while they attempt to identify the holiday tune she is playing.

About 150 people filled the meeting room at the Park County Public Library on Dec.

Library visits and circulation activity have increased in Cody since the new facility opened.

A $1.5 million bridge replacement project is scheduled to begin this week over the South Fork of the Shoshone River on County Road YXD, south of Cody.

A letter of support for a city of Powell project to provide water to its municipal airport by piping it along a county road received county commission support Dec.

Finding comparable sales to help determine the value of the former Park County Library property was a challenge, Jake Fulkerson of QM Appraisal told the county officials Tuesday.

A free library card will get you access to any of the more than 75,000 volumes in the new Cody branch of the Park County Library.