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Council member Chris Walsh said bar owners have told them the total ban has hurt their businesses by pushing customers to bars with smoking outside city limits.

Casper City Council on Tuesday approved actions about two liquor licenses, but not before a restaurant owner and the mayor blamed the changes on the voter-approved smoking ban in November.

Casper voters will have the opportunity to decide whether they want uphold a relaxed smoking ban or go back to a total smoking ban in buildings in Casper.

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.

An anti-smoking group says it’s looking for individuals to join its suit against the city of Casper and the city’s clerk. Keep Casper Smoke Free co-chairperson Kimberly Holloway says her group is contacting the 95 individuals whose signatures they say were wrongly rejected during the city’s initial petition count and are asking them to have their names added to the complaint...

The City of Casper is asking the Natrona County Seventh Judicial Court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by anti-smoking group Keep Casper Smoke Free. The group is trying to force the city to review nearly 100 smoking ban referendum signatures that were rejected by city clerk V...

An anti-smoking group is moving forward with a suit against the city of Casper and its clerk. Keep Casper Smoke Free wants to force city clerk V.H. McDonald to reevaluate nearly 100 smoking ban referendum signatures that the group claims were rejected unlawfully last month...

Keep Casper Smoke Free has started an online crowdfunding campaign that aims to defray attorney’s fees in a suit the group plans to file against the city of Casper in district court later this year. Keep Casper Smoke Free co-chair Kimberly Holloway says her group, which came up 61 signatures short of its smoking ban referendum target of 2,554 last month, is attempting to raise $3,000 by Dec... Rea

City of Casper officials say they will not recount nearly 100 rejected smoking ban referendum signatures that were being challenged by Keep Casper Smoke Free earlier this week. In response, Keep Casper Smoke Free says it will now file a complaint in district court...