A Teton County commissioner who opposed the majority of the board’s decision to instate a mask mandate in Jackson Hole through December is now trying to lift it.
Growing up in Jackson, Josh Frappart and Brock Carr suffered the loss of a childhood friend who died by suicide. They were also longtime friends of Nick Bochicchio, who owned Creekside Market and Deli and died by suicide in June.
After over a month in the red, high-risk level for COVID-19 due to case counts and the positivity rate in Teton County, the virus appears to be on the decline.
Following a monthlong survey of Jacksonites, behavioral healthcare workers are prepared to present a more nuanced picture of mental health in the valley.
You can’t treat what you don’t understand.
Thanks to funding from the Wyoming Department of Health, people at risk for Type 2 diabetes can now enroll in a free program to lower that risk.
People interested in getting their flu vaccines may do so at the Teton County Health Department’s clinic beginning Sept. 22, by appointment Wednesdays through Saturdays.
The past 18 months have not been easy for event organizers and promoters. Keeping the doors open, or at the very least the lights on, at venues like the Center for the Arts has been even more of a struggle than when there’s not a pandemic that is causing hundreds of daily deaths and hospital…
The Jackson Hole-based Environmental Health Trust has won what it calls a “historic” lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission.
There’s still time to take the behavioral health needs assessment being conducted for the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, but not much.
Three years after the public threw support behind a new skilled nursing facility on the St. John’s Health campus, Sage Living is ready to open.
Wage increases are coming at St. John’s Health.
With COVID cases on the rise in Teton County, public health officials urge the community and visitors to take basic precautions to keep themselves and others safe, especially at the Teton County Fair.
St. John’s Health wants to spend $100 million on affordable housing.
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Will Wagnon, the relatively new CEO of St. John’s Health, has resigned, effective immediately.
Visitors come to Jackson Hole to see the Tetons, but last week the Cathedral Group disappeared. The first day, Apple weather attributed the lack of visibility to “haze.” But if you stepped outside the ashy scent of smoke indicated the real culprit.
A new survey wants to know how you’re doing.
With the delta variant driving up infections in a tourist-saturated Jackson Hole, and school set to start in a few weeks, community health leaders are putting their heads together to keep the populace safe.
The Wyoming Department of Health has released guidance for who should think about receiving a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, following the federal's government's recommendation that immunocompromised people do so.
Wyoming’s COVID-19 case count hit an ominous milestone Tuesday, eclipsing 1,000 active infections for the first time since February.
The number of active coronavirus cases in Wyoming increased by 245 on Wednesday, the largest single-day increase in that total since mid-January.
Rising COVID-19 cases and an increasingly prevalent delta variant have raised the antennae of public health officials, who are considering how to react.
If you experienced delayed results using the Curative kiosk for COVID-19 testing in the past few weeks, you aren’t alone.
Last summer, businesses across Jackson sporadically put up signs: “Closed due to COVID-19 exposure.” Even if staff members weren’t sick, they were quarantined because of their proximity to the coronavirus.
The St. John’s Health Urgent Care clinic saw a sudden influx of patients who had contracted the COVID-19 virus and needed to be hospitalized over the weekend. Other patients experienced delays as a result.
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Teton County's COVID-19 risk level has bumped up in response to an increase in new cases, the percentage of cases due to community spread and other local metrics.
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In an unsurprising announcement, the Wyoming Department of Health said Thursday that most recent cases of COVID-19 are in unvaccinated people.
Despite the best efforts of public health officials, Wyoming still ranks 48th among states for the percentage of adults who have received at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine and 47th for those who are fully vaccinated.
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The deaths of six more Wyoming residents have been linked to the coronavirus, the Wyoming Department of Health reported Wednesday.
With 80% of adults over 18 fully vaccinated in Teton County, vaccinated individuals now make up the majority of the community. Now health officials are launching an innovative vaccination effort to further increase the community protection from COVID-19.
To mask or not to mask?
Teachers and students will finish the school year the same way they started it, wearing masks.
Teton County School District No. 1 advised Munger Mountain Elementary School families on Friday that students who rode Bus 17 in the morning or afternoon this past week may have been exposed to a COVID-19-positive individual.
One girl swung her arm back and forth, her fingers hanging toward the floor. A boy tapped away at the screen of his phone. Others sat backwards in their chairs, chatting with friends from a safe distance.
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Clinics for kids 12 and up to get Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine have been scheduled.
As other counties and states make headlines by tying COVID-19 vaccinations to benefits like free drinks, Teton County is wondering what role it can play in incentivizing people to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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For the first time since the pandemic started, Teton County has entered the “green” risk level.
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Most middle school students may soon be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine.
Much has happened in the past 284 days: The United States chose a new president, schools went virtual, and Grizzly 399 went into and emerged from her den with four cubs intact.
In the mid-20th century polio ravaged the United States, causing paralysis in more than 15,000 people each year. Vaccines created in the 1950s and ’60s have helped bring the disease to the point where no documented cases have originated in this country since 1979.
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The deaths of three more Wyoming residents are being attributed to the coronavirus, the Wyoming Department of Health announced Tuesday.
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