Platte County

Lightning caused the fire, which is burning in grass and timber.

The Wyoming State Loan and Investment Board approved seven Business Ready Community grants and one loan request totaling $4.1 million on Thursday, according to a news release from the Wyoming Business Council.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, citing dry conditions and high fire danger, has placed partial fire restrictions on public lands it administers in Natrona, Converse, Platte and Goshen counties beginning today. The BLM imposes these restrictions in coordination with the counties: Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire or campfire except within agency-provided fire grates at developed

UPDATE 8:19 p.m. Wednesday - Both the tornado warning for east-central Platte County and the tornado watch for southeastern Wyoming have expired. A flash flood warning remains in effect until midnight for central and east-central Platte County...

The Platte County Republican Party has censured GOP Gov. Matt Mead for signing the law stripping power from the office of schools Superintendent Cindy Hill and not reversing the law after the Wyoming Supreme Court struck it down.

A tractor trailer hauling a tank full of ethanol collided head on with a pickup truck in Platte County, killing both drivers.

One man is dead and two other people are injured after a one-vehicle crash in Platte County near the town of Glendo. The Wyoming Highway Patrol says 18-year-old Dylan Freeman of Cheyenne was driving northbound on Interstate 25 just after 5:30 p...

A rapidly moving wildfire has prompted an evacuation order for area residents

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming sheriff says investigating allegations of mistreatment of pigs at a commercial farm is a top priority. Platte County Sheriff Steve Keigley says Wednesday that his agency is working with the Wyoming Livestock Board to investigate a complaint from the Humane Society of the United States...

Partial fire restrictions across three eastern Wyoming counties on Bureau of Land Management lands will effect anyone wanting to get outdoors in this lovely late fall weather. Restrictions on campfires, use of welding equipment and smoking are now in place for Converse, Platte and Goshen counties...