Sophia Boyd-Fliegel

2 weeks ago | 891khol.org | Sophia Boyd-Fliegel

Make our newscast part of your daily listening routine. Subscribe on Spotify (or wherever you listen to podcasts). Rachael Wheeler got an email the evening of Wednesday, March 26 from the State of Wyoming that federal funding for five preventative health employees in her department was gone. The message landed in her inbox just hours before employees had to be notified.

2 weeks ago | 891khol.org | Sophia Boyd-Fliegel

Make our newscast part of your daily listening routine. Subscribe on Spotify (or wherever you listen to podcasts). The Jackson Hole Lands Trust remains optimistic conservation projects across a planned 20,000 acres in northwest Wyoming can continue despite a federal funding freeze.  Just over $21 million federal dollars were earmarked for landowner conservation easements in six counties in northwest Wyoming last fall.

2 weeks ago | 891khol.org | Sophia Boyd-Fliegel

Make our newscast part of your daily listening routine. Subscribe on Spotify (or wherever you listen to podcasts). River rafters and fishers headed to the Snake River Canyon will see electronic pay stations starting next month near their parking spots. Those using U.S. Forest Service boat ramps between Astoria and Sheep Gulch will have to display a permit on their dash. Private recreators will pay $5 a car or $40 for a season pass.

2 weeks ago | 891khol.org | Sophia Boyd-Fliegel

Subscribe to Jackson Unpacked. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Nanci Turner Steveson and her 41-year-old son Parker Steveson settle down for the evening in their two-bedroom apartment at Pioneer Homestead in East Jackson. It’s Teton County’s only subsidized housing complex for senior and disabled citizens. Nanci, 67, is a children’s book author. Parker works part-time as front of house and the front desk for Jackson’s Center for the Arts, where he’s also a volunteer DJ at KHOL.

1 month ago | 891khol.org | Sophia Boyd-Fliegel

Make our newscast part of your daily listening routine. Subscribe on Spotify (or wherever you listen to podcasts). Katherine “Kat” Rueckert was elected chair of the Teton County Republican Party in an uncontested race on Mar. 3. The position guides the priorities of the local political party and Rueckert hopes a shift in focus will help the party gain footing in an overwhelmingly blue county. “I would say that we’re starting from ground zero,” Rueckert said.