There's more to the Fremont County jobs market than the simple unemployment rate. Sometimes, in fact, a higher rate can be a good thing. It used to be that ...

The cold season In the midst of a long winter, it can be tempting to get our head of ourselves in looking forward to spring. The truth is, we aren't even ...

The destination took a bit of effort to locate. Located on a winding side road, off a barely paved private lane that connects to a secondary road in Center ...

Losing passenger air service would have been a demoralizing and economically critical loss for Fremont County. It almost happened in 2016, but it didn't. ...

I've been visiting my family here in Wyoming for the past few weeks. That's fortunate not only because I like to see them, but because this can be a lonely ...

"What do you do with a general when he stops being a general?" croons Bing Crosby in the fun holiday movie from the 1950s called "White Christmas." Plot ...

It's not possible to go overboard with winter house-cleaning. While other families tracked the Elf on a Shelf this Christmas, I explained the noxious ways of ...

The wheels of bureaucracy turn slowly, even in the least populated state in the nation. Often that's a frustrating state of affairs, but in the case of the ...

A fond word now about Ned Case. Ranger readers who didn't know him probably felt they did. His wife, Betty Starks Case, mentions Ned frequently in her ...

Big blow That was quite a wind we had Monday morning in Fremont County. Dare we say it had something of the feel of spring to it? Reporter Katie Roenigk ...

It was great while it lasted. Denver Air Connection makes its final flights to Riverton and Sheridan next week after an incredibly successful run to both ...

Naming the top 10 stories of a year that has just ended is a relatively easy task, but predicting the big news to come is more complicated. What news might ...

On New Year's Day, I took a hike up to the Popo Agie Falls falls above Lander. I'd done it many times before,but never in the winter. It was both wonderful ...

There it was in the New York Times: "Why your New Year's resolution to go to the gym will fail." Thanks a lot, America's Newspaper of Record. Nothing like ...

It's 2020 Your daily newspaper staff appreciated the day off Wednesday as we rang in the new year with a holiday for the newspaper staff. We don't plan to ...

Tuesday notes Last day We have reached the 365th and final day of 2019. That's always a fun and very busy occasion at the local newspaper office. We fill ...

"I thought, well, there would be other days, but that was the only day." That's my favorite quote from "Field of Dreams." It epitomizes those unnoticed ...

Fatal fires We've had two this month, and the impact is damaging to all of us No news of an accidental death in a community is happy. But something about ...

It's tempting to be let down this time of year. For many of us, the holidays are over (or soon to be), and we have the long, cold months of January and ...

Would anyone care to get in doing a chess match - or, perhaps, a poker game - with either Mitch McConnell or Nancy Pelosi? The two masters of congressional ...

Riverton, it's been a rough year. 2019 was bookended with the still-unsolved double homicide of Jocelyn Watt and Rudy Perez on its infant side, and the ...

Holiday adjustments Normally we start the publication week with "Tuesday notes," but Christmas Eve on Tuesday threw assorted monkey wrenches into our ...

Longtime TV watchers of "a certain age," as we say, might remember the 1970s comedy and variety program "The Flip Wilson Show." The show featured a live ...

My brother-in-law Matt has worked for United Parcel Service for 35-plus years. A standing joke of Matt's is that he now works for Amazon. It's a sentiment ...

Perfect light We make it ourselves this time of year - and celebrate True, celestial, scientific winter, as defined by the sun and Earth, arrives on the ...

It's the most wonderful time of the year, and that means cookies. Be honest with yourself: You know you like a good Christmas cookie, even if you promise you ...

The decision by a couple of high school kids on a school dress-up day to wear long white robes with hoods that reminded some people of Ku Klux Klan attire was ...