Council member Chris Walsh said bar owners have told them the total ban has hurt their businesses by pushing customers to bars with smoking outside city limits.
Casper City Council on Tuesday approved actions about two liquor licenses, but not before a restaurant owner and the mayor blamed the changes on the voter-approved smoking ban in November.
Evidence from total smoking bans nationwide has shown they improve public health and reduce health care costs, the director of the City of Casper-Natrona County Health Department said Monday.
"Across the board we've seen health benefits from implementing these comprehensive smoking bans," Dr. Kel...
Early voter turnout before Tuesday's referendum has been smokin'.
"Last week in our office, absentee voting really started to pick up," Natrona County Clerk Renea Vitto said Monday morning.
Absentee voting ends at 5 p.m. today at the clerk's office in the old courthouse, 200 N...