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1 week ago | 
newsbreak.com | Rebecca Huntington |Dan Cepeda
With spring comes wedding season, when Cara Rank begins to rent table settings for Jackson Hole occasions with hundreds of guests. She plans ahead, placing orders six to nine months in advance. President Donald Trump’s now-paused tariffs would have slapped a $40,000 import tax on her roughly $200,000 shipment of hand-painted porcelain dinnerware, cutlery and glassware — all coming from Europe in May.
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2 weeks ago | 
oilcity.news | Dan Cepeda
CASPER, Wyo. – The Oil City is rapidly becoming a Brew City as another local craft brewery opens in its historic downtown corridor. Mountain Hops Brewhouse launched a soft opening of its new downtown location on the corner of Center and Second Streets this week after months of preparations. The location at 101 East Second was most recently occupied by a real estate firm, and for decades before was a jewelry business.
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2 weeks ago | 
oilcity.news | Dan Cepeda
CASPER, Wyo. – Former Wyoming First Lady Sherri Geringer has died after a prolonged illness. Sherri Geringer served as First Lady of Wyoming during her husband Jim Geringer’s term as governor from 1995 to 2003. According to a release issued by their son, Rep. Rob Geringer, the First Lady died just two weeks after the Geringers celebrated their 58th anniversary. Services are planned in their hometown of Wheatland, and in Cheyenne, they said.
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2 weeks ago | 
oilcity.news | Dan Cepeda
CASPER, Wyo. – The Wyoming Department of Family Services says it’s business as usual for the foreseeable future in regards the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIEAP) in the state after staff in the federal department that runs the program was suddenly eliminated this week. “At this time, LIHEAP (LIEAP in Wyoming) has been funded through September 30, 2025.
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3 weeks ago | 
oilcity.news | Dan Cepeda
CASPER, Wyo. – Hoping for the best, and planning for the worst. That’s how Natrona County Library Executive Director Lisa Scroggins described the mood as word spread that the Institute of Museum and Library Services’s (IMLS) entire staff in Washington D.C. was put on immediate leave this week. “If they were to cut that funding that the IMLS provides to the state of Wyoming, that would have a tremendous negative impact on the libraries,” she said on Wednesday.
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3 weeks ago | 
oilcity.news | Dan Cepeda
CASPER, Wyo. – A rockslide on Thursday afternoon closed one lane of traffic on Casper Mountain Road. According to a social media post by the Natrona County Sheriff’s Office, the rockslide was located below lookout point sometime around 6 p.m. Traffic was slowed and diverted around the slide until the road was cleared some 30 minutes later. Photos submitted to Oil City News from readers showed rocks mainly piled on the south-bound lane. There were no reported injuries or vehicle damage.
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3 weeks ago | 
oilcity.news | Dan Cepeda
CASPER, Wyo. – Cooler temperatures along with periods of much-needed precipitation is likely throughout the weekend in Natrona County. According to the National Weather Service in Riverton, Friday will be blustery with a high around 66 degrees. Showers could form late afternoon and continue overnight. Saturday will see chances for showers in the morning before clearing to partly cloudy conditions. A high of 48 degrees and moderate breezes are likely.
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4 weeks ago | 
oilcity.news | Dan Cepeda
CASPER, Wyo. — The Wyoming Department of Health estimates it will lose nearly $40 million in grant funding after the Trump Administration announced it is cutting billions of dollars for state health grants. In addition, the Natrona County Health Department will be forced to eliminate a new employee charged with helping residents navigate mental health services.
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4 weeks ago | 
oilcity.news | Dan Cepeda
CASPER, Wyo. – The Casper College Lady T-Birds put up a solid fight against Wabash Valley College on Thursday during the 2025 NJCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship at the Ford Wyoming Center. The T-Birds kept the score close and often moving ahead during most of the game, but fell behind in the fourth quarter. They ended up losing 88-80. Wabash Valley entered the competition with the number two seed. They will play in the quarterfinals on Saturday.
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4 weeks ago | 
oilcity.news | Dan Cepeda
CASPER, Wyo. – The Dick Cheney Federal Building in downtown Casper is currently safe from being offloaded by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). According to an updated list recently published by the GSA, only eight federal buildings in the country are now being offered for sale, none of which located in Wyoming. That’s down significantly from an earlier list that contained 320 buildings. The Cheney building was the only Wyoming facility on that earlier list.
