Cheyenne News

The Wyoming Highway Patrol will have extra troopers out on Wyoming Highways starting next week,, according to spokesman Sgt. Steve Townsend.

He says the ''May Mobilization Seat Belt Enforcement Campaign" will feature "high visibility enforcement" with troopers  emphasizing seat belt enforcement as well as targeting moving violations and impaired driving

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Representatives of several Wyoming Law Enforcement agencies joined Wyoming Special Olympics athletes for a torch run to the steps of the state Capital Building in Cheyenne Thursday morning to highlight the beginning of the statewide Special Olympic games in Laramie

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A federal fugitive, wanted for interstate flight to avoid prosecution, was arrested Wednesday afternoon in Laramie.

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A Montana man, who was crop dusting in eastern Laramie County for Circle S Aviation, crash landed his plane this morning about a mile west of the Pine Bluffs Airport. Laramie County Sheriff's Department spokesman Gerry Luce says the pilot, identified as Mark Nardin from Emigrant, Montana was able to walk away from the crash

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Loretta Ford, the founder of the national nurse practitioner movement will be telling her story at an event on the campus of the University of Wyoming.

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Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Dale Steenbergen says the local economy seems to be doing quite well with all signs pointing to continued growth.

Steenbergen notes the new Cheyenne Menards store recently opened and says "we have businesses opening all over"

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The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is seeking information about an unspoiled, whole moose hindquarter found underneath the south end of the 11th Street viaduct last Wednesday. Spokesman Jeff Obrecht says at best the moose was legally taken last fall and somebody discarded the hindquarter which is a violation of wasting game

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A retiring University of Wyoming dean says the college is in danger of sinking into mediocrity unless it continues to attract and retain the best faculty available.

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Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Dale Steenbergen says city and county officials planning street projects need to carefully consider the impacts on businesses in the construction area

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Laramie County School District 1 is participating in the Summer Food Service Program, which provides free meals to all children 18 and under. The Meals are funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Meals will be p

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