More than 100 people gathered this week to join what may prove to be the genesis of Jackson Hole’s first widespread climate advocacy movement.
After about three years of back and forth between Jackson Hole Golf and Tennis and the resort’s neighbors, county commissioners gave both parties something to work with. But the split decision Tuesday put a plan for employee housing in jeopardy.
Political apathy hung over Brian Charette in 1992, when he moved to Jackson Hole as a 20-year-old ski bum. He’d come of age as the Gulf War raged, and he “didn’t want to be involved with any system.”
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Gun rights advocates took over the southwest corner of Town Square on Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, showing support for the thousands of demonstrators who rallied outside the Virginia Capitol building that morning.
Three decades after the state of Wyoming finally adopted the holiday that commemorates Martin Luther King Jr., some question why the date can’t be dedicated solely to the slain civil rights leader.
Free of town constraints Monday morning, county officials countered an offer to buy a tract of West Bank land with an offer of their own: Give us $1.9 million instead of $1.4 million.
Five Jackson Hole Fire/EMS paramedics and emergency medical technicians were stranded in Idaho on Monday and Tuesday during emergency trips to Idaho Falls. The high-and-dry first responders were just one casualty of a winter storm cycle that has inundated the Tetons and Jackson Hole the past…
When Rob Davies was given his first job in the United States Air Force, it was a simple one: providing a four-star general with a daily weather briefing.
Jackson Hole is well-stocked with people and organizations dedicated to curbing their harm to the planet. What the valley lacks is a unifying force to draw all those separate efforts together.
After nearly increasing bus fare rates for Teton Village and commuter routes, transportation officials will take more time to consider how the move could affect ridership.
Central Wyoming College is a step closer to giving its Jackson branch a new home, but the finish line is still a ways off.
Snow King and town officials have finally settled on an update to the resort’s master plan, ending more than a year and a half of negotiation and public review of the controversial document.
The data used to shape Teton County’s affordable housing program is due for an update.
A former Democratic presidential candidate, who now resides in Teton Village, has announced he will make a second bid for the White House in 2020.
The Jackson Planning Commission approved a development plan for a historic downtown block, marking another advance toward fulfilling a community effort to preserve the property.
Tacking on one extra noise-focused condition, the Teton County Board of County Commissioners approved Fire in the Mountains’ special event permit, overturning the county administrator’s original decision.
Throughout the restoration of the Sweetwater Restaurant, any time developer John Holland visited the site passersby would pause to admire the century-old log cabin and recall memories of it over the decades.
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START will adjust its bus schedule tonight, offering several post-midnight routes for New Year’s Eve revelers.
After five years the consensus is that the plan charting the future of transportation in Jackson Hole has been neglected, with the town’s most senior planner going so far as to say that “transportation has not been a priority.”
Although the county administrator has denied the special events permit for the 2020 metal festival Fire in the Mountains, Teton County Commissioners will have the final say.
The five-member Jackson Hole Airport Board of Directors is in flux due to a combination of one board member’s term expiring and another board member moving away.
Wednesday is Christmas Day, a federally observed holiday. Banks, post offices and government offices will be closed, and Teton Media Works will change several publishing dates.
On the eve of a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on whether to impeach President Trump, protesters braved single-digit temperatures Tuesday on Jackson Town Square to show support for the process.
For the first time in American history, the “average” resident of a U.S. county earned more than a quarter-million dollars last year. Surprise — it’s us.
Just as elected officials appeared on the verge of concluding a yearslong effort to overhaul Snow King’s master plan, last-minute tensions led one resort representative to say that, even having come this far, “I think we have a long way to go.”
Town officials took the first steps toward updating Jackson’s parking policy, with the biggest change being a shift to two-hour parking downtown and three-hour parking in the Home Ranch lot.
Dozens of neighbors and employees sounded off Tuesday on a controversial proposal to alter the master plan governing the Jackson Hole Golf and Tennis Club.
The News&Guide will cap 2019 by publishing our last two issues on Tuesdays. (It feels weird to us, too.)
Officials this week took the first steps to plan for housing on a handful of key properties around Teton County, signaling a new openness to development in areas they’ve long “danced around.”
Teton County will celebrate the construction of a new bridge in Alta with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday afternoon.
The owners of The Virginian plan to redevelop the property into what could be the largest housing project in Jackson’s history, potentially giving an unprecedented boost to housing stock.
Teton County officials are granting two properties a special rezone in an effort to resolve a West Bank zoning lawsuit.
START is fully staffed this winter, marking the first time in nearly a decade the transit system has been able to hire enough drivers for its busiest season.
Jackson Hole officials recently signed a pledge committing them to work toward carbon neutrality within the next decade, but with a caveat: They want to pair the symbolic gesture with concrete steps to curb the region’s emissions.
Officials this week postponed a decision to sell land on the Village Road, leaving open the question of whether they’ll cash in on the property or retain it for workforce housing development.
After a nearly half-year impasse, Jackson town officials may finally move ahead with a controversial housing project near the rodeo grounds.
Town and county officials on Monday unanimously rejected an offer to purchase The Grove Phase 1, a three-story building on Scott Lane that houses 20 affordable rental apartments and several commercial operations.
After a nine-month hiatus the Town Council is back to examining Snow King’s master plan, and public interest in the subject hasn’t waned.
Laurie Andrews does some of her biggest thinking outside.
The deaths of Hidden Hollow developers Kirk and Jim Hansen won’t derail construction of their housing project in Jackson, their family said Monday.
For the second time in less than a year, Teton County Library has an interim director.
Changes in the way low-income housing tax credits are allocated in Wyoming could put Teton County back in the running for one of the most surefire approaches to building truly affordable housing.
Political action committees spent more than $85,000 advocating for various projects on the specific purpose excise tax ballot earlier this month.
The doors of the 1930s log cabin stood open as it lumbered into the “Y” intersection on a tractor-trailer, its passage through the crossroads guarded by traffic-blocking patrol cars.
A bridge at the downstream boundary of Hoback Canyon is threatened by swift-moving water that’s scouring away rocks, cobble and sediment at the base of its piers.
Thursday is Thanksgiving, a federal holiday when banks, post offices, government offices and schools close.
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With its loan closed as of last week, the 90-unit Sagebrush Apartments project on West Broadway is officially underway.
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