Converse County Attorney Quentin Richardson needs the results of the investigation by the Wyoming Highway Patrol before he can decide whether to prosecute the case.
Peabody's Powder River Basin operations employ about 1,500 workers, leaving about 1,150 employed at the North Antelope Rochelle Mine after the announced reductions.
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
The National Weather Service has posted a severe thunderstorm watch for several eastern and central Wyoming counties through 9 p.m. Thursday.
Wyoming counties in the watch area include: Converse, Goshen, Niobrara, Platte, Campbell, Crook, Weston and Laramie...
DOUGLAS, Wyo. (AP) — A property tax settlement between Wyoming and Duke Energy will result in less tax revenue for Converse County.
The Wyoming Department of Revenue originally valued Duke's Top of the World wind farm near Glenrock at nearly $415 million...