Amy Richards
Amy Richards is News Director for Townsquare Media-Cheyenne. She has long experience covering local news and is well known in the state capitol for her Legislative coverage.
Amy Richards
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Multiple Meth Arrests in Wyoming and Colorado
Monday morning, law enforcement officers from multiple agencies from southeast Wyoming and Colorado began serving federal arrest warrants for 18 individuals located in both states. The arrest warrants are the result of two long-term joint investigations by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation and the federal Drug Enforcement Agency into the sale and possession of methamphetamine
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Wyoming’s Unemployment Rate 4.9 Percent in January
Wyoming's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in January, the latest month that information is available, was 4.9 percent, unchanged from December, 2012. Wyoming's rate remained well below the national rate of 7
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Judge hears arguments in Superintendent Hill’s Lawsuit
A district judge in Cheyenne says he will rule in a week whether to restore the powers and duties recently taken away from state schools Superintendent Cindy Hill.
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Laramie County’s Population Grew 2.0 Percent in 2012
Wyoming’s total resident population reached 576,412 in July 2012, according to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. The annual increase from July 2011 was 9,056 persons, or 1.6 percent, the fastest in three years.
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BLM Seeking Ways to Hide Major Transmission Line [AUDIO]
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is looking for ways to hid a major transmission line project in southern Wyoming. Doug Randall reports that a Utah man, who robbed a bank in Cheyenne, has been sentenced. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.
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Cheyenne All-City Children’s Chorus Concert Moved to Sunday
The Cheyenne All-City Children’s Chorus concert has been postponed one day due to the prediction of a significant winter weather event for the Cheyenne area. The concert will now take place on Sunday, March 10, at 7 p
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Gov. Mead: Reviewing Options To Help Plow Roads in Yellowstone
Governor Matt Mead said Thursday that state and local officials are still reviewing options on whether and how to help plow roads into Yellowstone National Park. The National Park Service announced earlier this week that snow plowing would be delayed in an effort to save money to meet across-the-board federal budget cuts required by Congress under the sequestration plan that took effect March 1
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Cheyenne Police Arrest Burglars
Cheyenne Police responded to 518 East 17th Street about 10 p.m. on Feb. 28, for a report of a residential burglary in progress. Cheyenne Police Department spokesman Officer Dan Long says a watchful citizen in the neighborhood notified police after he heard glass break and saw people climbing in the window of the residence.
Police arrived on scene an
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Budget Cuts Mean A Delay in Opening Yellowstone This Spring
Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Dan Wenk says sequestration means a budget cut of $1.75 million to the park's $35 million dollar budget for the remainder of the fiscal year. Wenk says the biggest impact of the cuts will be delaying snow plowing operations by two weeks, which will delay the opening most of the park's entrances this spring
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Police: Identify Suspect Vehicles In Recent Car Vandalism’s
Cheyenne police detectives continue to investigate a string of vehicle vandalism's that have occurred throughout the city over the past week.
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Gun Bills Die In Senate
Two controversial gun bills are now dead.Today was the deadline for bills to be heard on Committee of the Whole in the second house.The Firearms Freedom Act, which said federal bans on assault weapons and certain ammunition would not be enforceable in Wyoming and House Bill 103, which would have banned local government's from enacting gun restrictions, did not come up on Committee of the Whole in the Senate and are now dead for the session
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Converse County Sheriff’s Deputy Honored [AUDIO]
Wyoming's congressional delegation and Governor Matt Mead on hand Tuesday to honor the life of fallen Converse County Sheriff's Deputy Bryan Gross, who lost his life on July 28th, 2011 while saving a teenage girl from the North Platte river. The