Park County

There’s been a seasonal fishing closure on a stretch of the Shoshone River near Yellowstone for the past 140 years. The proposed changes would allow anglers to fish the lower part of the North Fork for two weeks in early April.

Park County Open Lands worked with a landowner to conserve an 84-acre property in between Cody and Yellowstone. The area is frequented by big game.

Recently, the Park County Travel Council has highlighted more outdoor experiences. It’s a shift backed by millions of local lodging tax dollars, but it's drawn some skepticism from some locals.

Those lands could include farms and ranches in Park County, buffalo habitat on the Wind River Indian Reservation, and lands in the Greater Yellowstone area that provide migration corridors and cultural resources.

The policy would require students to use the bathroom based on their biological sex, not the gender they identify with. It would also mandate schools provide a single occupancy restroom for transgender students.

Park, Weston and Sublette counties voted to continue their local 2 percent bed taxes. Johnson County voters approved a new local 2 percent tax.

Education funding, reproductive healthcare and cost of living were top of mind for voters leaving the polls at the Meeteetse Recreation Center.

United Airlines is currently the only option at Yellowstone Regional Airport in Cody. The nonprofit fundraising arm for the airport in Cody wants to bring back Delta Airlines.

This year Park County voters will decide whether or not to continue a local 2 percent lodging tax for the next four years.

Sleeping Giant Ski Area & Zipline owner Nick Piazza said they are dealing with slow insurance payments to a lodge that flooded this spring, among other issues.