KHOL Newscast

KHOL Newscast is the news feed from KHOL in Jackson. It covers the valley first and the wider region second. The local stories get as specific as payroll. Teton County School District teachers, bus drivers and custodians are expected to see raises, and district resources director Kristen Mayo is heard admitting the funding fight has been very challenging. Jackson and Teton County Parks and Recreation explains a pilot that lets residents pitch bigger projects, such as a pavilion or a new playground. Jackson Hole Mountain Resort's 100-day skiers, aged 10 to 82, get a closing-weekend story of their own, rain included. Sophia Boyd-Flegel introduces the newscast, and KHOL's Evan Robinson-Johnson files field reports where skiers, founders and the resort's new CEO speak for themselves. State politics comes in the same way. Governor Mark Gordon announces he will not seek a third term, and the newscast lays out the field lining up to replace him. Gordon also appears at a venture capital summit in Jackson, where a statewide housing shortage that has chilled hiring was among the audience's top complaints. That economic thread links several stories: housing and hiring, a nonpartisan analysis of federal tax changes, and the Wyoming Business Council's call to knock down barriers businesses face. Reporting from Wyoming Public Radio and Wyoming News Service stretches the map further. One piece visits a 100-foot dome in the eastern Idaho high desert, built as a test bed for nuclear microreactors. Another follows a female bear trucked from Montana into the greater Yellowstone ecosystem to diversify an isolated population, and a new photo shows her with cubs. The drought coverage is just as concrete: all of Teton County in moderate or severe drought, the Snake River headwaters well below average snowpack, and a Western Water Assessment scientist warning that even a strong El Nino would now fall on warmer, drier ground than it did in 1983. The feed also carries KHOL programs built on conversation rather than headlines. On The State of Jackson, Pete Muldoon talks with two guests, Elizabeth and Deidre, about how financial strain has reached providers and clients alike, and one guest makes the case for prevention in plain terms: check in for help a few times a year, the way people get their teeth cleaned. Jackson Unpacked, hosted by Sophia Boyd-Flegel, covers news, music and culture; one edition hears about a Breckenridge program that pays owners for deed restrictions and gathers voices inspired by the late novelist Tim Sandlin. A good first listen is 'School employee pay, Gordon won’t run again, Idaho nuclear testing', which moves from district payroll to the governor's future to a reactor test bed and shows the newscast's reach in one pass.