Campbell County

The Milton, W. Va.-based Blackjewel LLC, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy business reorganization on July 1.

Belle Ayr and Eagle Butte mines in Campbell County been closed since Blackjewel filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection July 1.

After another unsuccessful attempt to get $20 million, it was able to obtain $5 million in emergency funding to secure the mines and the equipment.

On July 1, Blackjewel LLC, announced that it could not get a $20 million loan from a creditor bank, and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy business reorganization.

The bankruptcy court also authorized the debtors to pay vendors and shippers that billed Blackjewel before the bankruptcy petition.

BNSF Railway, which has hauled coal from the Belle Ayr and Eagle Butte mines in Campbell County, is aware that their owner Blackjewel LLC, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy business reorganization, a BNSF spokeswoman said in an email Wednesday...

The Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of West Virginia is scheduled to conduct the emergency hearing at 12:30 p.m. MST.

An adult from Campbell County has become Wyoming's first human case of West Nile virus this year.

Twenty-one percent are opposed and 20 percent say they need more information.

The two-day tour took them to Campbell County, Casper, Riverton, and Green River to events focused on workforce development and mining production in the state.