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KHOL Newscast

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Listen weekdays for local, state and regional headlines from Jackson Hole and the Mountain West—all in four minutes or less.

Episodes

State of Jackson: Bridget Crocker shares how the river healed scars from childhood and the rafting industry

Beginning her guiding experience in 1991, Bridget Crocker faced what she now recognizes as a “constant barrage” of sexual harassment. Each instance wasn’t life-altering, she says, but part of a culture she knew wasn’t acceptable. Before that, she suffered abuse from her family. Her new memoir, “The River’s Daughter,” reveals how running some of the world’s most dangerous rapids prepared Crocker for the hardest conversations of her life. Crocker sits down with former river guiding colleague, Fred...

Jun 21, 202526 min

School board gun vote, climbing advocate remembered

Listen every weekday for a local newscast featuring town, county, state and regional headlines. It's the daily dose of news you need on Wyoming, Idaho and the Mountain West — all in four minutes or less.

Jun 13, 20253 min

A hot summer so far, a peek inside trona mining

Listen every weekday for a local newscast featuring town, county, state and regional headlines. It's the daily dose of news you need on Wyoming, Idaho and the Mountain West — all in four minutes or less.

Jun 10, 20252 min

State of Jackson: Tyler Sinclair says spending more on staff is working

It’s not a cliff, says Jackson Town Manager Tyler Sinclair. But local government expenses are starting to outpace revenue, and that imbalance could deepen in the next few years. Sinclair breaks down why inflation, workforce retention, and pandemic-era spending patterns have pushed Jackson into a vulnerable financial moment. Co-host Pete Muldoon sits down with Jackson’s town manager to ask about the town’s plans to course-correct, including a philosophy to spend more on people and which parts of ...

Jun 07, 202528 min

Grizzly deaths so far, Laramie housing plans

Listen every weekday for a local newscast featuring town, county, state and regional headlines. It's the daily dose of news you need on Wyoming, Idaho and the Mountain West — all in four minutes or less.

Jun 03, 20252 min

State of Jackson: Chris Colligan sees a bright future for wildlife

Chris Colligan was driving north, headed home on Highway 89 out of Jackson, when he saw a cow moose in a frenzy. Her calf had been hit by the car. With broken legs, the calf had to be shot. It’s moments like this, and the high-profile death-by-drivers of Grizzly 399 and her cub, 1058, that have motivated the community to be better. Frederick Reimers sits down with Colligan, Teton County’s public works project manager, to learn why, penny for penny, wildlife crossings are one of the best conserva...

May 31, 202528 min

State of Jackson: Wade McKoy has traced the arc skiing

Wade McKoy was a recent college grad from Mississippi when he first saw the Tetons in 1974. His trajectory from liftie to world-class ski photographer is, in many ways, the story of the ski industry itself, and that of Jackson Hole. In advance of his first book documenting 45 years behind the lens, McKoy talks about the early days of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, what it was like to photograph legends like Pepi Stiegler and Doug Coombs and the impact of tourism and climate change on the region. ...

May 24, 202526 min
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