Casper City Council

During Tuesday’s work session, Casper City Council reviewed and gave preliminary approval to the procedure for councilman Craig Hedquist's Apr. 29 informal public hearing. According to the procedure outlined in council documents, city-hired attorneys and attorneys representing Hedquist will first be given 30 minutes each to make opening arguments to city council...

An unprecedented informal public hearing involving Casper City Council and embattled Ward II councilman Craig Hedquist has been scheduled for later this month. The resolution, which was passed by a 6-2 margin Tuesday night, not only schedules the Apr...

Ward II Casper City Council member Craig Hedquist is claiming attempted political sabotage in a countersuit filed last month against the city of Casper and its city manager. Defense attorneys claim city manager John Patterson held secret meetings that “explored ways to keep Hedquist’s candidacy from succeeding” prior to Hedquist taking office...

Keep Casper Smoke Free says attorneys with the anti-smoking group, which is trying to overturn a partial repeal of the city of Casper's public indoor smoking ban, met with city attorneys for a summary judgment hearing last week. “Both sides made motions to the judge basically saying that this really doesn’t need to go to trial,” Keep Casper Smoke Free co-chair Kimberly Holloway said on Wednesday..

In a report released Tuesday morning, a Casper-based attorney has concluded that city councilor Craig Hedquist violated conflict of interest laws and tried to use his position on Casper City Council to leverage better road construction deals between his company and the city...

Casper City Council approved several outside legal agreements on Tuesday night related to a forthcoming conflict of interest investigation into councilman Craig Hedquist. Councilors unanimously agreed to retain Casper attorney Judith Studer as substitute legal counsel when the body discusses future developments regarding the upcoming investigation...

Casper City Council will vote on entering into several outside legal agreements on Tuesday that would effectively launch investigations into possible conflict of interest violations against councilman Craig Hedquist. Council will decide on entering into agreements with Casper attorneys Judy Studer and Kathleen Dixon to conduct an investigation into potential conflict of interest and other violatio

An internal investigation conducted by a local law firm and the city of Casper has concluded that Ward II city councilor Craig Hedquist subjected a city employee to workplace violence during an August meeting. The report, which was drafted by Casper firm Dixon & Dixon LLP, alleges Hedquist used profanity and threatened city engineer Andrew Beamer during a construction progress meeting at the c