Wyoming will spend more than $4 million to kill coyotes, wolves, ravens, skunks and other “nuisance animals” in 2023-24 — more than any previous fiscal year.
Hanging from the ceiling of Tim Young’s 500-square-foot log cabin office in Wilson is a cherry red 1980 Schwinn Paramount bicycle. Black fenders hug its tires, pannier racks are affixed front and back, and the saddle is well worn.
The Wyoming Legislature’s Management Council voted Thursday to guarantee the availability of remote public testimony at committee meetings during the interim legislative session.
For years, Sen. Bo Biteman, R-Ranchester, saw the Wyoming Legislature defeat the “crossover” voting ban his party expected him to deliver. So, with the bill on the verge of victory this past session, and some fellow Republicans still correctly calling it unconstitutional and a threat to demo…
The Wyoming Legislature has advanced a bill that legalizes the use of physical force by a landowner or landowner’s agent to “terminate” what they believe is criminal trespass.
State Rep. John Winter, R-Thermopolis, rode horseback into the Red Desert to see some new country last year.
Federal officials are weighing public comments on a proposed wind energy project that would add to an expanding crop of turbines in south-central Wyoming.
It has been seven months since someone set fire to an abortion clinic in Casper amid fierce national debates over reproductive rights.
The Trump administration violated environmental and planning laws when it OK’d a Delaware-sized oil and gas field in Converse County, endangering raptors and 54 greater sage grouse breeding-ground leks, two conservation groups allege in a lawsuit.
RIVERTON — Brian Shuck surprised Wyoming Republican Party officials last Saturday with an announcement that he would forgive $5,000 of what he was owed in legal fees so the party could spend more on candidates.
Wyoming’s spring count of strutting male greater sage grouse revealed a 6% increase over 2021, bucking expectations of a continuing decline predicted last fall.
The Bureau of Land Management this past May published an amendment to the plan that guides decisions in the agency’s Rawlins and Rock Springs offices. In the document, the bureau’s staffers revealed the new target population for the federally protected mustang herds in Salt Wells Creek and t…
The owner of the Elk Mountain Ranch broke federal law by blocking four hunters’ access to public land and by harassing and intimidating them, the hunters’ attorney alleges in new court papers.
A key timing restriction protecting some wintering greater sage grouse from oil and gas development doesn’t align with the imperiled birds’ use of the critical habitat, a University of Wyoming study shows.
Devils Tower. Grand Canyon. Death Valley. Arches. These are some of America’s greatest national parks and monuments, and all were protected because of a law known as the Antiquities Act. The act was first used in Wyoming, but today Wyoming is the only state where the Antiquities Act cannot b…
With more than $14 million in federal stimulus and other monies earmarked for outdoor recreation, Wyoming is preparing to accept grant proposals for trail reroutes, new campsites, boat ramps and more.
Having recently cleared key legal and permitting hurdles, developers are slated to begin construction of two major high-voltage transmission lines connecting Wyoming to several states in the West. When completed, the Gateway South and TransWest Express transmission lines will open the door t…
Visitation to Wyoming’s state parks dipped slightly in 2021, but the system’s managers — heeding a five-year trend — are still preparing for high traffic as the summer season approaches.
Agricultural and municipal water restrictions in the Tongue River basin in northeastern Wyoming have been lifted based on “improved hydrologic conditions” while a separate call on the North Platte River upstream of Pathfinder Reservoir was allowed to expire May 1.
Snowpack measured 79% of the state’s average median at the beginning of March, while much of the state recorded warmer-than-usual winter temperatures despite a few record one-day lows. Forecasts for continued warmer temps point toward a possible early runoff season, according to National Oce…
CHEYENNE — Gov. Mark Gordon has signed into law new legislation that would ban abortions in Wyoming five days after the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, if that happens.
Wyoming voters retained the right to change party affiliation on Election Day after a bill to restrict the practice died in the state House of Representatives.
In Wyoming, we are blessed to have critical services such as public safety, roads and education largely funded by the state’s vast natural resources. In large part thanks to the mineral industry, as well as to agriculture and tourism, Wyoming has for generations sustained its economic engine…
The latest data on greater sage grouse in Wyoming indicate an “alarming” likelihood of populations regressing to a 1996 nadir, the state’s top grouse biologist said last Thursday.
Three years ago, millennials became the largest living adult population in the United States, but not in Wyoming, where young people have migrated out of the state in a steady flow for years.
Pandemic-fueled spikes in park visitation, campground reservations, trail use and other metrics failed to translate into economic growth for Wyoming’s outdoor recreation sector in 2020.
I can’t think of many easier jobs in Wyoming politics than lobbying against a gas-tax hike.
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