Gillette News Record

12/13/2025

Three men — Justin Martin and his son, Range Martin, both of Uinta County, and Kylan Platt of Malad City, Idaho — have been charged with felony counts of animal cruelty following an alleged incident with an infirm moose.

EVANSTON — Three men — Justin Martin and his son, Range Martin, both of Uinta County, and Kylan Platt of Malad City, Idaho — have been charged with felony counts

12/13/2025

Local educators who go through the required training to carry a firearm in their schools will be reimbursed for one of the costs associated with the training.

Local educators who go through the required training to carry a firearm in their schools will be reimbursed for one of the costs associated with the training.

12/13/2025

Campbell County basketball has a chance to be the first 4A team to win back-to-back state titles for the first time since Evanston did in 2012 and 2013.

There were several changes over the offseason for the program, the biggest being Cameron Anderson taking over as head coach after Bubba Hladky’s retirement. The Camels also lost a lot of senior players, including the top two scorers in Lane Hladky and Truman Degrange.

“Lane and Truman are really good players, and hard guys to replace,” Anderson said. “But I’m fortunate that all the guys that we return spent a ton of time in the gym.”

Campbell County basketball has a chance to be the first 4A team to win back-to-back state titles for the first time since Evanston did in 2012 and 2013.

12/13/2025

After a fourth-place finish at state in March, the Thunder Basin boys basketball team is entering the 2025-26 season with a stronger roster and an improved Gibby Williams, who is in his junior season.

After a fourth-place finish at state in March, the Thunder Basin boys basketball team is entering the 2025-26 season with a stronger roster and an improved Gibby Williams, who is

12/12/2025

Deputies and firefighters responded to an explosion at a compressor station at Alpha Spur Thursday. Undersheriff Quentin Reynolds said a 40-year-old man heard the explosion and checked it out.

Two men were hospitalized after an explosion in Crook County Thursday afternoon.

12/12/2025

For more than three decades, rather than delivering to the North Pole, Campbell County residents have been making sure kids across the community have presents under their tree each Christmas.

Campbell County Parks and Recreation has collected letters from kids in need across the community as part of the Secret Santa program, and every year, members of the community stop by the Rec Center to sponsor the kids.

For more than three decades, rather than delivering to the North Pole, Campbell County residents have been making sure kids across the community have presents under their tree each Christmas.

12/12/2025

This week, a jury heard hours of testimony from police officers and family members about the events leading up to the death of 33-year-old Haleigh Martinez.

Her half-brother, Vincent Hackett, 27, is charged with second-degree murder for allegedly shooting and killing her on Jan. 20. He is being tried in front of District Judge Matthew Castano. The trial began Monday and is expected to last six days.

This week, a jury heard hours of testimony from police officers and family members about the events leading up to the death of 33-year-old Haleigh Martinez.

12/12/2025

Friday, December 12
Today: A 50 percent chance of snow before 2pm. Cloudy, with a high near 24. Wind chill values as low as 5. North wind 6 to 8 mph. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 12. Southeast wind 6 to 10 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph.

12/12/2025

DOUGLAS — Dr. Joseph Gutman has seen plenty of upheavals in the nearly half century of his professional life in Miami, Baltimore, Arizona and now Wyoming. But stretched out on the living room couch of his Casper home, he offered a rather bleak characterization of the medical world since the pandemic.

“Covid is the modern equivalent of the Tower of Babel,” the nationally renowned endocrinologist said, his East Coast accent hanging on the words and his eyebrows raised as he continued. “Everyone is speaking a different language.”

By everyone, he explained, he means everyone — those in government, in the medical world and the public. And that, he contends, has helped lead us to this place — where health care, and rural health care in particular, is being threatened from multiple directions to the point some rural places may lose providers and hospitals.

DOUGLAS — Dr. Joseph Gutman has seen plenty of upheavals in the nearly half century of his professional life in Miami, Baltimore, Arizona and now Wyoming. But stretched out on

12/11/2025

In the past several weeks, law enforcement has received multiple calls from residents who have observed drones flying near private homes, and now those concerns have made their way to the Buffalo City Council.

Councilman Wes Haskins told city leaders during the department head meeting that he has received multiple complaints from Buffalo residents about a man flying a drone over residential property in the city.

BUFFALO — In the past several weeks, law enforcement has received multiple calls from residents who have observed drones flying near private homes, and now those concerns have made their

12/11/2025

A 17-year-old boy was taken to the crisis shelter after police responded to a report of an altercation by his 33-year-old father Wednesday evening, Deputy Chief Brent Wasson said.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

12/11/2025

The Wyoming Community College Commission presented a budget request emphasizing the immediate need for stable, long-term funding to support career and technical education programs across the state.

Executive Director Laurel Ballard told the committee that the agency operates with a lean structure.

“We operate with a staff of just 12 full-time employees,” she said. “...We are not just a pass-through for funding; we are the central nervous system for post-secondary coordination in the state.”

CHEYENNE — Critical funding needs across the community college system and the University of Wyoming was the topic of Wednesday’s session of the Legislature’s Joint Appropriations Committee.