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Last summer, Riverton Police Chief Eric Hurtado proposed adding community service officers (CSOs) to the department to help with a high volume of calls and understaffing issues. CSOs don’t make arrests or carry a gun, but they can help with low-risk incidents like parking tickets or minor car accidents. Ideally, that frees up other officers to respond to more serious crimes.The police chief’s proposal turned into a reality at a City Council meeting in Riverton last week.
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Rosa Bonheur, a 19th century French painter and sculptor most well-known for her highly detailed depictions of animals, never visited the American West. But Whitney Western Art Museum Assistant Curator Ashlea Espinal says she developed a fascination with the place through interacting with American artists and her friendship with William F. Cody.
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The Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra's next concert will feature pieces inspired by our solar system.
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Game and Fish responded to KHOL and others public records requests Wednesday with videos of the wolf, confirming many allegations.
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An anti-communist sentiment was one of the driving features behind the film version of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. The animated, feature length movie was co-produced in Great Britain by American filmmaker Louis de Rochemont.
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A vigil to honor a young teen who was stabbed and killed at a mall in Casper is set for Thursday night.
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If Ivan Posey wins in Nov., he’ll be the only Native American representative in the state Legislature. He’s running as a conservative Democrat against Rep. Sarah Penn (R-Lander) for House District 33, which encompasses part of the Wind River Reservation.
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How do different cultures record their histories? For hundreds of years, many Plains Indian tribes created pictorial calendars called winter counts. Every year, a keeper of the history drew an image on an animal hide to record the most important event that had taken place from one winter to the next.
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Laramie residents gathered on UW's campus to watch the 2024 partial solar eclipse.
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The court acknowledged that it will likely be required, at some point, to assess the constitutionality of the state’s abortion bans, but said the district court should make a ruling first.
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Just Plain Bill, a radio soap opera that aired from the 1930s to 50s, was written and produced by husband and wife team Frank and Anne Hummert. It was one of many serialized programs created by the couple during the golden age of radio.
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Silvia Davila walks us through her job, her journey to Jackson from Mexico City and her efforts to integrate the Latino community in the town’s public schools.
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The Snowy and Sierra Madre mountain ranges may soon be getting their own avalanche forecasting center. Carbon County Sheriff Alex Bakken has applied for a state grant to fund what he considers a critical part of Southern Wyoming’s public safety infrastructure.
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The nation's historical markers delight, distort and, sometimes, just get the story wrong.
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Among the themes of Passover is freedom from captivity. For many Jews this year, the holiday brings up the pain of knowledge that hostages are still captive after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
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In a parking lot and on San Francisco Bay, NPR witnesses two different tests for solar geoengineering to tackle climate change. With much science unsettled, experts say regulations aren't keeping up.
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Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah killed 22 people, including 18 children. Meanwhile, the United States approved $26 billion in aid for Israel, including around $9 billion for Gaza.
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A naval chief petty officer who served on a Japan-based destroyer was found guilty of sharing classified information with a foreign government, the Navy's investigative agency said.
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President Biden has expressed support for the House foreign aid package. It now heads to the Senate, where it is also expected to pass.
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The bill, now advancing to the Senate, represents the most serious threat yet to the video app used by half of Americans.
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STEM careers are still lagging when it comes to hiring women of color.
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NPR's Scott Simon remarks on the long career of John Sterling, the New York Yankees' play-by-play announcer, who is retiring at the age of 85.
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When actor George Takei was 4 years old, he was labeled an "enemy" by the U.S. government and sent to a string of incarceration camps. His new children's book about that time is My Lost Freedom.