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One person is dead after a head-on collision last week about a mile west of the town of Lusk. The Wyoming Highway Patrol said 49-year-old Vonda J. Martinez of Lusk was driving westbound on U.S. Highway 18/20 when she crossed the center-line and struck the vehicle of Gillaum C...

Officials with Casper-based Joshua's Storehouse say work is nearly complete on the community food pantry's downtown warehouse expansion. “We’re expanding on the back of our building right now – we’re about three-quarters done with the construction, and the walls are up, the roof is up and they’re starting to put the power in,” Joshua’s Storehouse CEO Jay Martin said on Wednesday...

The city of Casper is getting ready to formally open a new playground at the west-side Nancy English Park. Casper parks manager Dan Coryell said the new play structure replaces a former structure at the site. “I usually keep a top 10 list of all of our current play structures in town – Nancy English was one of the oldest ones and one of the most damaged,” Coryell said...

Passenger numbers at the Casper-Natrona County International Airport were up roughly 10 percent during the month of June, airport officials say. “That’s almost 10,000 passengers total in this June compared with June of 2013,” Airport manager Glenn Januska said...

The average price for a gallon of gas in Wyoming increased nearly a penny last week to $3.58 - that's according to analysts with GasBuddy.com. “Prices nationally, on the other hand, have started to decline,” Senior petroleum analyst Patrick DeHaan said ...

The cost for a new public restroom in downtown Casper is going up. Casper City Council has agreed to a roughly $350,000 contract with Casper-based Haass Construction toward construction of the facility at the parking ramp between South Center and South Wolcott streets...

Casper City Council approved a professional services contract with the non-profit Casper-Area Transportation Coalition on Tuesday. Casper mayor Paul Meyer said the roughly $1.9 million dollar contract will help ensure that CATC will continue to operate for at least the next six months not only in Casper, but also in nearby Mills, Evansville, Bar Nunn, and other areas of Natrona County...

The Wyoming Economic Analysis Division says Wyoming's overall economy saw moderate gains during the first quarter of 2014. Principal economist Dr. Wenlin Liu said, compared with figures from last year, total employment in the state grew by nearly 2,300 jobs during the first quarter...

Casper City Council on Tuesday approved the purchase of a new ice resurfacing vehicle and dasher boards for the soon-to-be-installed ice rink at the Casper Events Center. Both resolutions were passed 6-to-2, with Ward I councilmen Daniel Sandoval and Keith Goodenough twice providing dissenting votes...

The Casper-Area Metropolitan Planning Organization will take public comment on its annual transportation improvement plan at a meeting next Wednesday. “This is just our effort to make sure we have a continuous, cooperative and comprehensive planning process to make sure that we’re covering all of our bases,” MPO supervisor Andrew Nelson said...