Keith Fulton named WYDOT Chief Engineer

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CHEYENNE, Wyo.  – The Wyoming Department of Transportation has named Keith Fulton Chief Engineer of the agency, effective Feb. 1. As Chief Engineer, Fulton will be responsible for overseeing transportation planning, highway design and operations for WYDOT statewide, including highway construction projects, winter maintenance, highway safety, highway and bridge design, as well as WYDOT’s equipment fleet,...

Outage scheduled Feb. 4 for tunnel lights west of Cody

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Shoshone Power Plant will be offline on Tuesday, Feb. 4. The 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. outage on Feb. 4 will kill power to the U.S. 14/16/20 tunnel controls and lights west of Cody. During the one-day outage, please turn on your headlights for safety. Regulatory signs will be opened on each end of the tunnels, requiring headlights to be used in the tunnels during the outage....

Wyoming Aeronautics Commission to meet January 21

The Wyoming Aeronautics Commission will meet via videoconference for its regular business meeting on Tuesday, January 21, 2025 at 1:30 p.m. The purpose of the business meeting is to address and vote upon, when appropriate, the topics on the attached meeting agenda. To join the meeting or to view the meeting materials, visit the Aeronautics website and click on the corresponding hyperlink. You can also...

Wyoming Transportation Commission to meet Jan. 15-16

The Wyoming Transportation Commission will meet Wednesday, Jan. 15 for department reports and an education session beginning at 1:00 p.m. and Thursday, Jan. 16 for its regular business meeting beginning at 8:30 a.m. via Zoom and in person at 5300 Bishop Blvd., Cheyenne. The purpose of the meeting is to address and vote upon, when appropriate, the topics noted on the attached meeting agenda. To join...

Thanksgiving impaired driving enforcement operation yields 6 DUI arrests, 41 speeding citations

A Fremont County multi-agency impaired driving enforcement operation during the Thanksgiving holiday and weekend resulted in 211 traffic stops, six arrests of impaired drivers, and 41 speeding citations. The Fremont County DUI Task Force prioritizes impaired driving, but law enforcement issued 23 citations for other offenses and made two arrests for controlled substance.   The task force issued 181...

Top 10 list of things snow plow operators want drivers to know

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Wyoming Department of Transportation has seen a plow strike in each of its five districts already this winter, with four strikes occurring since the Christmas holiday alone. WYDOT plow drivers want to issue 10 reminders ahead of what is typically Wyoming’s snowiest months: 1.      Give plows room to work. Snow plows are huge machines capable of moving tons of snow every minute. Like...