Kamila Kudelska

On Saturday, July 17, a kickoff event will take place for the Bighorn River Blueway Trail in Manderson and Basin. The project is a proposed river trail that starts in Thermopolis and ends in Lovell.

The intense search efforts for a missing hiker in the Beartooth Mountains near Red Lodge, Montana has been scaled down as rescuers believe she is likely dead.

Open Spaces show rundown for July 9th, 2021.

Historian, educator and politician Pete Simpson has received the LaDonna Zall Compassionate Witness Award from the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation. The award is a way to honor individuals who may not have been directly affected by the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II but devoted their life to bring awareness and light to the injustice.

In the past, wildfire season in the Mountain West usually started in July and ran through September. But this past June saw an overwhelming amount of wildfires and it's taking a toll on the nation's firefighting resources like crews and helicopters. Kamila Kudelska takes a look at The Robertson Draw Fire along the Montana/Wyoming border.

A new state law allows the Wyoming State Insurance Commission to regulate the Wyoming air ambulance membership organizations. Consumers pay for air ambulance memberships to try to avoid high prices if they ever need such services. This is a serious issue in rural areas of the state where there is a lack of emergency health care.

Open Spaces show rundown for July 2nd, 2021.

This past legislative session, lawmakers passed a bill that will change who community health care providers can serve. Throughout the summer, stakeholders are now figuring out how to actually implement these policy changes on the ground. Wyoming Public Radio's Kamila Kudelska spoke with Andi Summerville, the executive director of the Wyoming Association of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers, on the current process. Summerville said the new system involves priority groups that so far have been separated into three tiers.

The podcast Death, Sex and Money focuses on conversation topics that many are scared of and don't want to discuss with their loved ones or friends. Host Anna Sale said many people reach out to her asking how to get people to open up about personal stuff, the way she does with guests on the show.

As unprecedented dry, hot weather continues throughout most of the state, some localities have canceled their Fourth of July fireworks. Gillette, Thermopolis, Teton County, and Keyhole State Park announced there will be no firework celebrations for the holiday.