If you had followed Lost Creek Road to the Diamondfly Ranch last Saturday morning you would have stumbled upon four pairs of kids and their parents completing a variety of seemingly bizarre tasks. 

July in Jackson Hole means the snow has finally begun to melt, the sun is (usually) out, and red, white and blue abounds. 

Roy Kerswill painted Teton scenes and Indians and fur trappers and wild animals over four decades, but the Kerswill painting that was seen by the most people is the painting no one has seen for 20 years.

Any time News&Guide staff members have an the opportunity to talk about journalism, we take it.

It’s not every day that we find lightning bugs crawling around the News&Guide’s offices.

The Heritage Arena was terrifying.

Pablo Castillo tries to play a little something for everyone on his morning radio show.

Sam Johnson was down.

She was having a rough day in the Utah canyonlands, driving her van — it doubles as her home — on the tail end of a weekslong stretch in which she hadn’t seen anyone. Her cat, Zamboni, was ill.

At Mike Yokel Park on Saturday afternoon the easily recognizable rainbow flag made several appearances among transgender, bisexual, genderqueer and myriad other waving pride flags.

The imposing staccato opening notes of “Pomp and Circumstance” echoed through halls across the valley as high schools sent off their graduating classes of 2019.

The students circled round the “watershed trailer.” Some sifted distractedly through the sand and others watched intently as a makeshift river gushed past miniature plastic frogs and otters through the mock riparian ecosystem.

Escaping the daily grind for a spell is good for anybody’s soul. For members of the clergy, time spent away from ministerial duties can sometimes be, well, a godsend.

The path to becoming a citizen of the United States is not an easy one.

Volunteers wearing blue latex gloves diligently sorted shelf-stable food into zip-lock bags decorated with characters from “Toy Story” last Thursday at the Hole Food Rescue headquarters.

Eleven-year-old Landon Holmberg spent the morning at the ElkFest rope bridge, checking off one part of the three parts needed to earn the coveted ElkFest patch.

Yara Mauricio drags a wire cart through the doors, the laundry basket piled high with stuffed garbage bags.

The 2019 Bras for a Cause set a record, raising more than $100K for women’s health during the raucous event at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar.

There’s a number of ways to protect national forest lands.

Sheena Dhamsania is a rock star in more ways than one.

Moments after the final instructions were given, a couple of dozen Boy Scouts, their parents and volunteers set out across the National Elk Refuge in search of shed antlers, the last remnant of a long winter now that the snow has melted across the refuge.

On the tables sat the sinking Titanic, bleeding cookies and a Harry Potter book. And shortly after they were judged, they were eaten.

Luz Chavez will be the first member of her family to go to college, a dream she’s confident she’ll achieve after winning over $15,000 in scholarships last week.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK— The deep, raspy roars of two grizzly bears battling on their hind legs are audible from hundreds of yards away.

This is an excerpt from the most recent issue of Teton Family Magazine, a Teton Media Works publication that came out last week.

I’m a mushroom newbie. But I don’t have mycophobia like some of my peers. 

The Easter bunny hopped all around Jackson Hole over the weekend, leaving eggs at R Park, Town Square and several churches and backyards.

Like ants to a mound, skiers have been lapping Snow King Mountain rain, snow or shine this spring, on fresh corduroy.

The hula dancers, ukulele music and cake came out even before the plane took off.

Flipping through a Girl Scout magazine, 10-year-old Pearl Inman saw a camp where she could pick up survival skills such as saving lives, starting fires, building shelters and practicing self-defense.

After she moved to Jackson from Tlaxcala, Mexico, nearly two decades ago, Nancy Hernandez taught herself to ski. Even then she realized that the ubiquitous winter pastime was central to the culture.

Grace Turner first walked across a stage at 13.

Adam Mates refuses to guess how many more days of plowing are ahead before the tall task of clearing Teton Park Road is complete.

When Philip Meisner was 2 years old, his mom, Kathleen Osterman-Meisner, carried him in a backpack while walking with her friend, Barbara Scowcroft, along the Snake River dike.

On an August trip to visit her mother in Tlaxcala, Mexico, Miriam Morillon marched into the mayor’s office with a proposal. She walked out with an ordinance.

Orrin Bonney and Lorraine Gagnon met in a way in keeping with the life they were to live together and the reputation they earned in Wyoming mountaineering.

The valley’s biggest dance party serves no alcohol and starts at 9 a.m. on a Sunday.

February 2019 was a historic month in Jackson Hole.

It took a year and a half for the teens to raise the money they needed to get to the island.

“Who wants to be injured?”

When Ron Scott, Carl Davidson, Bill Townsend and Bill Briggs played their first show together as the Stagecoach Band on Feb. 16, 1969, Aerosmith hadn't been born, ZZ Top, Rush, the Who and the Rolling Stones were still in their (now-relative) infancy.

Trevor Kennison sat in his sit-ski above the run-in to Corbet’s Couloir.

Gary Endecott trained for weeks to prepare for his ski competition.

He worked out in the gym over the summer. He skied weekends. On Thursdays this winter he donned a Jackson Hole Mountain Resort host jacket — his first year in the signature red coat.

He’s no stranger to the mountain, the sport or the Special Olympics Wyoming Winter Games.