Fair week kicked off on Saturday with the youth rodeo as kids from around the county showed off their skills on horseback. The weekend rounded out with team roping and the horse show and was followed by a week of livestock shows, fashion revues and entertainment. Events will conclude with the much-anticipated parade day on Saturday, which will begin with a color run and bike relay, followed by the parade itself at 10 a.m. The Crook County Rodeo Royalty will be crowned an hour later, followed...

Sarah Pridgeon

The cause of a fire that claimed a family residence last week is still under investigation. The fire was reported at 4:15 a.m. on Friday morning at a single family dwelling on Beaver Creek Road, southwest of Sundance. The smoke was spotted and called in by neighbors to the north, says Fire Warden Charlie Harrison. According to Harrison, units were dispatched to respond to a structure fire and arrived at the scene to find that the building was fully engulfed and there was already some spread to...

Zeta Nuckolls Anderson and FaithHoney Anderson were among the thousands of attendees at the Republican National Convention held July 15-18 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This year marked the inaugural opportunity for each county in Wyoming to elect their delegate to the RNC; Zeta was elected as the Crook County delegate. FaithHoney was selected as the Wyoming Delegation Page for the 2020 RNC but was unable to attend when the traditional convention was canceled. After reaching out to Wyoming GOP...

The 2023-'24 winter proved the third deadliest for Yellowstone wolves in the decades since Canis lupus was reintroduced to the landscape in 1995. Overall, 13 wolves were shot by legal hunters, caught by trappers, killed by poachers or died of suspected hunting-related injuries. Like in past winters, the vast majority of wolves that met their fate after straying beyond the protections of Yellowstone National Park did so in Montana, near the park's northern boundary. Eight wolves were legally...