Best of Cheyenne

July 4, 1867, Union Pacific surveyor General Greenville Dodge named the city of Cheyenne and plotted the area.

Do remember when the Capital City was a 'fun city'? For Cheyenne kids in the '80s, Fun City Amusement Park in Lions Park was the spot for summer fun.

After winning $133,000 at the World Series of Poker last year, Richard Dixon is back in Vegas gunning for a bracelet.

Here's something you don't hear very often. A downtown Cheyenne restaurant is expanding instead of closing. Yesterday, Tasty Bones Barbecue and Bakery celebrated the grand opening of their second location on 715 South Greeley Highway.

Serving up tube steaks, sausages, and game meats like elk jalapeño cheddar brats, bison, wild boar & “Jackalope” has drawn high praise for The Weenie Wrangler.

Our friends at Cheyenne's Big O Tires made another deserving Mom's Mother's Day just a little brighter. Toni Vavra and her family were selected from lots of entries from the past several weeks for Big O's "Driven For Mom" contest. This was a total shock for Toni as their current vehicle was in need of some serious work and was becoming unreliable for their trips to Denver for important doctor's appointments for her son with Down's Syndrome. Toni and her family drove away with a 2007 Chevrolet Malibu and a year's worth of maintenance from Jack Floyd and the team at Cheyenne's Big O Tires on Yellowstone Rd. and on Lincolnway.

Take a sneak peek at the Cheyenne Downtown Housing Tour.

"Shhh, keep it down. This is a library". Don't expect to hear that when Mark Kroos comes to the Laramie County Library next week.

Now in its third year, Cheyenne Restaurant Week will feature fixed-price menus at 29 local businesses, including the three downtown breweries.

The Cheyenne Ice and Events Center will be celebrating America's first gold medal in the sport at their annual Chicken Curling tournament next month.