Cowboy State Daily Radio News: Tuesday, September 29, 2026

It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Tuesday, September 29th.  I'm Mac Watson.

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Teton County officials asked developers of a non-luxury neighborhood to pay $3.5 million to help with nearby road construction. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that after some objections about paying the unprecedented "tax" on a largely philanthropic project, the developers now say they'll compromise.

"There was a lot of chatter in September about paying it all up front, and they were like, 'Whoa, you know, why are we going to do this union of government and private sector, and we still kind of have our project in approval mode, in consideration mode,' and so they they really bristled and said that having to pay that amount up front would make the project unviable, but then on Monday the developers came around and proposed a compromise where they would end up paying the full 3.5 million to help the community build other roads outside the neighborhood that the county says are linked to its impacts, its impacts on traffic, and in exchange, those payouts would be connected to phases of approval."

The commissioners are slated to consider the project approval on October 6.

Read the full story HERE.

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Dramatic dashcam video has emerged which shows a semi crashing into a Rawlins bridge on I-80 in July. Cowboy State Daily's Kolby Fedore reports that a safety engineer said had the truck not hit the median cable barrier, the result would have been disastrous.

"Nearly three months after a semi-truck demolished one of the beams in a Rawlins bridge, the Wyoming Highway Patrol has yet to release what caused the accident and who was driving the truck. The city of Rawlins closed the Higley Bridge immediately after the wreck, and now three months later, it remains closed. WYDOT's going to have to address the Spruce Street Bridge in Rawlins as well as Exit 214 in Cheyenne before they can start accepting bids for the newest bridge breakdown."

The crash happened the morning of July 20 near Exit 214. The Wyoming Highway Patrol reported the semi was westbound when it drifted off the pavement and entered the median.The truck struck the median cable barrier and eastbound guardrail before crashing into the concrete bridge supports, destroying it.

Read the full story HERE.

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