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Dale Zimmerle, who unsuccessfully applied for a council seat vacated last year, made the suggestion at the May 3 meeting.

If officers wore body cameras, they could use that technology to clear themselves from frivolous lawsuits, Casper Police Chief Jim Wetzel said Tuesday.

Casper City Council voted to repeal the 2013 softened version of the hard-and-fast 2012 smoking ban, and then voted to repeal the 2012 version itself after a two-hour public hearing and council discussion on Tuesday.

the Father of boy who was rescued from the Platte talks with K2 Radio News.

Depending on your point of view, it was an expression of the will of the Casper City Council, or an exercise in futility. Thursday night, in an, at times, acrimonious meeting, the council voted 6 to 2 to ask fellow Councilman Craig Hedquist to resign...

During Tuesday’s work session, Casper City Council reviewed and gave preliminary approval to the procedure for councilman Craig Hedquist's Apr. 29 informal public hearing. According to the procedure outlined in council documents, city-hired attorneys and attorneys representing Hedquist will first be given 30 minutes each to make opening arguments to city council...

Council members Tuesday night admitted that they're essentially entering uncharted waters,

Hedquist is the owner of Hedquist Construction, a Casper-based road construction firm. He is accused violating conflict of interest laws by using his position as a councilperson to leverage better road construction deals between his company and the city.

Keep Casper Smoke Free says attorneys with the anti-smoking group, which is trying to overturn a partial repeal of the city of Casper's public indoor smoking ban, met with city attorneys for a summary judgment hearing last week. “Both sides made motions to the judge basically saying that this really doesn’t need to go to trial,” Keep Casper Smoke Free co-chair Kimberly Holloway said on Wednesday..

Visitation to the State Parks was up in 2013 according to the Division of State Parks and Cultural Resources. The Casper City Council has unanimously approved $450,000 toward design and construction efforts at multiple Platte River revival sites...