There's more to the Fremont County jobs market than the simple unemployment rate. Sometimes, in fact, a higher rate can be a good thing. It used to be that ...

The cold season In the midst of a long winter, it can be tempting to get our head of ourselves in looking forward to spring. The truth is, we aren't even ...

Losing passenger air service would have been a demoralizing and economically critical loss for Fremont County. It almost happened in 2016, but it didn't. ...

"What do you do with a general when he stops being a general?" croons Bing Crosby in the fun holiday movie from the 1950s called "White Christmas." Plot ...

The wheels of bureaucracy turn slowly, even in the least populated state in the nation. Often that's a frustrating state of affairs, but in the case of the ...

A fond word now about Ned Case. Ranger readers who didn't know him probably felt they did. His wife, Betty Starks Case, mentions Ned frequently in her ...

Big blow That was quite a wind we had Monday morning in Fremont County. Dare we say it had something of the feel of spring to it? Reporter Katie Roenigk ...

Naming the top 10 stories of a year that has just ended is a relatively easy task, but predicting the big news to come is more complicated. What news might ...

Tuesday notes Last day We have reached the 365th and final day of 2019. That's always a fun and very busy occasion at the local newspaper office. We fill ...

Fatal fires We've had two this month, and the impact is damaging to all of us No news of an accidental death in a community is happy. But something about ...

Would anyone care to get in doing a chess match - or, perhaps, a poker game - with either Mitch McConnell or Nancy Pelosi? The two masters of congressional ...

Holiday adjustments Normally we start the publication week with "Tuesday notes," but Christmas Eve on Tuesday threw assorted monkey wrenches into our ...

Perfect light We make it ourselves this time of year - and celebrate True, celestial, scientific winter, as defined by the sun and Earth, arrives on the ...

The decision by a couple of high school kids on a school dress-up day to wear long white robes with hoods that reminded some people of Ku Klux Klan attire was ...

One of our informal sources of what people are talking about around town comes from our front-counter at 421 E. Main, where at least a couple dozen come in to ...

Happy holidays? Not for everybody. Not always. The joyous nature of the holiday season is invigorating and inspirational for many of us, but not everyone sees ...

Not even winter yet Strictly speaking, it's still autumn. But that season gave up all pretense some time ago, opened the front door, and let winter hustle ...

What do you do when you don't get to complain about the thing you wanted to complain about? You complain about it. The chairman of the House Committee on the ...

It's cold, of course. Yes, the roads probably are slick. And it gets dark almost before the sun goes down this time of year. In spite of it all, this still ...

Check out the number of donors and volunteers who gave of themselves to make the annual Key Club Thanksgiving meal deliveries succeed again this year at ...

Wintry pre-winter About six weeks ago we posed a simple weather question. When the record-setting cold snap arrived in the last week of October -- barely a ...

On to the Judiciary Committee And, some tickets remain for Saturday's Bar J Wranglers show The 300-page impeachment investigation report on Donald Trump ...

As the Trump impeachment hearings roll merrily along -- well, "merrily" probably isn't the right word -- some witness testimony and questioning has included ...

April in November Whatever else happens in our Fremont County weather this week (more on that in a moment), we'll always have Sunday and, most particularly, ...

It is taking a long time for mental health issues to earn what might be called their rightful place in public discourse. In the meantime, people, programs ...

In its infancy this fall is discussion about asking Fremont County voters to approve a small sales tax for the benefit of the Wind River Transportation ...

Editor's note: Wath Tuesday' Ranger and dailyranger.com for information on how to contribute to the Griffin monument reward fund. ======== A memorial to ...