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• Wyoming news briefs for May 14

  News from across Wyoming.

  14 hours ago

• State GOP backs local party as Williams and others deny they voted illegally

  A response has been filed in the civil suit claiming the March leadership elections of the Uinta County Republican Party were conducted illegally.

  14 hours ago

• Supreme Court: Traffic stop unlawful

  The Wyoming Supreme Court reversed the conviction of a Campbell County man who was arrested for methamphetamine and child endangerment after a traffic stop he said was unlawfully extended past its initial purpose, according to a decision last week.

  14 hours ago

• Proposed land exchange raises questions of access, value, process

  The Columbus Peak Ranch, LLC land exchange proposes trading 628.35 acres of privately-owned land located east of Dayton for 560 acres of state trust land located northwest of Dayton.

  14 hours ago

• Cheney will continue to 'fight for the truth,' says GOP can be fixed

  About 24 hours removed from being voted out as the GOP conference chair, the No. 3 leadership position in the U.S. House, the Wyoming Republican said she remains a believer in her party and that a deep divide caused by Trump can be fixed.

  14 hours ago

• Wyoming news briefs for May 13

  News across Wyoming.

  1 day ago

• LCCC study: Wyo residents can afford more taxes

  Wyoming residents can afford to pay more in taxes, an analysis by the Laramie County Community College’s Center for Business and Economic Analysis argues, citing the state’s already-low tax burden and relatively inexpensive cost of living.

  1 day ago

• Big Horn commissioners collect input on Second Amendment proclamation

  More than 120 county residents packed the Weed & Pest building outside of Greybull to voice concerns about federal government overreach.

  1 day ago

• Tolerance key to grizzly conservation, state says

  Education is the top priority in Wyoming’s $55 million, decades-long battle to recover and conserve grizzly bears.

  1 day ago

• Campbell schools won’t ‘recapture’ for first time in decades

  Both Sublette school districts among those recaptured.

  1 day ago

• Tribunal recommends disbarment for former prosecutor

  The tribunal has recommended Becket Hinckley’s disbarment, but the Wyoming Supreme Court will have the final decision.

  1 day ago

• Cheney supporters, critics offer reaction to ouster

  Cheney, who has served as Wyoming’s sole House representative since 2017, voted to impeach Trump in mid-January for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, stating at the time that there has “never been a greater betrayal” by a U.S. president than the actions taken by the former president.

  1 day ago

• Lawsuit over health orders dismissed

  Judge Edelman ruled that petitioners lacked standing in the case because there is no direct connection between the health orders and any alleged injuries plaintiffs may have suffered, among other reasons.

  1 day ago

• Wyoming news briefs for May 12

  News from across Wyoming.

  2 days ago

• Legislature to guarantee remote meeting access through 2021

  The policy, which only impacts the 2021 interim, also allows lawmakers to participate in meetings remotely without being docked pay.

  2 days ago

• Groups want federal budget to allow sage grouse assessment

  Any rider “blocks FWS from carrying out its basic responsibilities under the ESA,” the groups wrote in a two-page letter dated May 4.

  2 days ago

• FEC fines Wyoming GOP $52,000

  In March, the Wyoming Republican Party paid the FEC $52,000 for an unspecified campaign finance violation, according to campaign finance records.

  2 days ago

• Wolf numbers about flat in Wyoming range

  State legislatures in Montana and Idaho have recently earned headlines for going over wildlife managers’ heads and adopting policies that require wolf populations be cut by as much as 90 percent.

  2 days ago

• Camping area closed by dam concerns

  The park sits below the 111-year-old dam, which has known structural integrity issues.

  2 days ago

• Ramoco mine could be open by fall, CEO says

  After years of permitting review and promised timelines that have come and gone, Ramaco Carbon CEO Randall Atkins said Wyoming's first new coal mine in more than four decades could be operational as early as this fall.

  2 days ago

• Committee revives Medicaid expansion

  The 9-5 vote promises the proposal will have committee sponsorship during the special session planned for July or a budget session in February, depending on when legislative leaders choose to act on the bill.

  2 days ago

• Wyoming news briefs for May 11

  News from across Wyoming.

  3 days ago

• Former Buffalo Bill Center employee sues museum

  A former employee of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West has filed suit against the museum in U.S. Federal Court.

  3 days ago

• Couple pleads not guilty to murder in child’s death

  The couple is charged in connection with the April 4 death of Williams’ daughter, Paisleigh Williams.

  3 days ago

• Former Gillette resident returns to challenge Cheney

  Denton Knapp, a 1983 CCHS grad who served for 30 years in the U.S. Army, has announced that he will challenge Republican Rep. Liz Cheney.

  3 days ago

• Former prosecutor admits negligence

  The Wyoming Supreme Court, in a 2017 decision reversing Black’s case, also said there was “no question” that there was prosecutorial misconduct during Black’s trial.

  3 days ago

• Lawmakers review tax structure again

  Of course, the topic is not a new one

  3 days ago

• Riverton superintendent pleads not guilty to DUI

  Flanagan was taken into custody briefly on Saturday, April 22.

  4 days ago

• Forest eyes revision to allow domestic sheep to graze

  Jonathan Ratner wasn’t pleased to read a public notice that the Bridger-Teton National Forest is looking to change how it protects wild bighorn sheep from catastrophic diseases spread by domestic sheep.

  4 days ago

• Wyoming news briefs for May 10

  News from across Wyoming.

  4 days ago

• Federal grants add momentum to Wyo carbon capture movement

  The funding did not arrive in Wyoming unprompted.

  4 days ago

• Sage grouse hunters shot about 7,600 birds in 2019

  Earlier this year the agency said sage grouse hunters in 2020 voluntarily deposited 2,156 wings — the agency asks for one from each grouse killed — in collection barrels set out during the season.

  4 days ago

• National group eyeing Buchanan as Cheney replacement

  Club for Growth did not respond to an email requesting comment, nor did Buchanan’s office. Cheney’s office declined to comment.

  4 days ago

• Legislature’s remote meeting option will continue into interim

  The pre-approved locations are limited to more populous areas of the state, however, and fail to cover some more rural areas of Wyoming.

  4 days ago

• Young grizzly cast off, finds trouble, hauled north

  It’s well known that grizzly bears that grow up roadside in Grand Teton National Park tend to habituate to being around people.

  4 days ago

• Darin Smith announces run against Liz Cheney for U.S. House seat

  Standing in front of the Wyoming Capitol, Smith said he’s “sick and tired of politics as usual.”

  4 days ago

• Gordon prohibits vaccine passports

  Gov. Mark Gordon signed a directive Friday prohibiting state entities from requiring “vaccine passports.”

  4 days ago

• Wyoming news briefs for May 7

  News from across Wyoming.

  1 week ago

• UP Energy purchases Pinedale Energy Partners

  One less operator and over a dozen fewer jobs exist on the Pinedale Anticline now than this time last month.

  1 week ago

• Closed rest stops to reopen

  Nine Wyoming rest stops that were closed last year due to budget cuts will reopen later this month, Gov. Mark Gordon’s office announced Thursday.

  1 week ago

• Construction resumes on wind project that has generated national attention

  Construction on the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project in Carbon County started again for the season on April 12, and the project has generated its fair share of national attention in recent months.

  1 week ago

• Gillette students modify books for students in Guatemala

  Heidi DeStefano, now an educational author after more than a decade as a kindergarten and first grade reading recovery specialist with the Campbell County School District, took a vacation with her husband to Guatemala.

  1 week ago

• Wyoming news briefs for May 6

  News from across Wyoming.

  1 week ago

• B-T Forest eyes revision to allow domestic sheep to graze

  Jonathan Ratner wasn’t pleased to read a public notice that the Bridger-Teton National Forest is looking to change how it protects wild bighorn sheep from catastrophic diseases spread by domestic sheep.

  1 week ago

• Park Co. declared ’Second Amendment Preservation County’

  The elected officials said they were passing the resolution “to defend the rights and liberties of the citizens of Park County.”

  1 week ago

• National PAC sought challengers to Cheney

  Club For Growth’s presence in the state is a signal that the race may not be limited to the current candidates facing Cheney, state Sen. Anthony Bouchard, R-Cheyenne, and state Rep. Chuck Gray, R-Casper.

  1 week ago

• Physicians ask Cheyene schools to keep mask mandate

  A group of local health care providers is asking Wyoming’s largest school district to keep its mask mandate in place through the end of the year.

  1 week ago

• Wyoming news briefs for May 5

  News from across Wyoming.

  1 week ago

• Federal policy could undermine Wyo cattle ID legislation

  The policy may erode a recent victory by Wyoming’s ranching industry that earned them more autonomy over tracking their animals, and industry groups are watching developments closely.

  1 week ago

• After hunters kill 874 sage grouse hens, Wyo’s hunt questioned

  Hunters shot at least 874 greater sage grouse hens in Wyoming last year, prompting a state grouse team member to question the wisdom of allowing a hunt of the imperiled species.

  1 week ago

• Drought monitor: 95% of state abnormally dry or worse

  Ninety-five percent of Wyoming is abnormally dry or worse, according to a nationwide drought monitor map released Thursday.

  1 week ago

• Jackson, Teton County agree to spend money on housing

  The final go-ahead will come when town and county budgets are approved in June.

  1 week ago

• Anti-semitic, threatening email sent to UW staffer

  An anti-Semitic and potentially life-threatening email was received by an University of Wyoming employee at 8:32 a.m., Thursday, April 29.

  1 week ago

• Lawsuit filed over death of DOT employee

  Shirley Samuelson died in August when a street sweeper she had just parked on Highway 22 in Teton County rolled downhill and ran her over. She was 62.

  1 week ago

• Balow rejects ‘critical race theory’ teaching

  Wyoming’s education chief has joined a vocal faction of Republican lawmakers across the country in expressing distaste for teaching public school children about how racism has shaped American society since the country’s founding.

  1 week ago

• Wyoming news briefs for May 4

  News from across Wyoming.

  1 week ago

• Housing director wants to spend $13 million on housing 'crisis'

  April Norton, director of the Jackson/Teton County Housing Department, wants to spend $13 million to build homes and expand housing programs in the upcoming fiscal year.

  1 week ago

• Cheney, Trump at odds again

  Monday saw three public exchanges between Cheney and the former president.

  1 week ago

• ITC in Gillette chosen for $52M CO2 capture project

  Gov. Mark Gordon announced Friday afternoon that the ITC, attached to the Dry Fork Station coal-fired power plant about 10 miles north of Gillette, will host one of two large U.S. Department of Energy CO2 capture research projects.

  1 week ago

• Wyoming news briefs for May 3

  News from across Wyoming.

  1 week ago

• Analysis: Four Wyoming takeaways from new census numbers

  As the Mountain West experienced a population boom over the last decade, Wyoming’s growth lagged, according to U.S. Census numbers released this week, with the Equality State among the slowest-growing states in the country.

  1 week ago

• Management Council weighs change that could limit public access

  The Wyoming Legislature’s Management Council, which sets priorities for the body, is weighing a policy change that would give committee chairs the authority to decide whether the public can participate in their meetings remotely.

  1 week ago

• ‘Love it and leave:’ The choices facing Wyoming’s youth

  In the fall of 2017, then Hot Springs High School senior Stormy Cox wrote of her home state: “In my heart I would love to stay in Wyoming … The majority of my family lives in Wyoming. It’s hard to leave all of them behind and be on my own. If I could stay in Wyoming and still pursue my dreams I would.”

  1 week ago

• Portraits of Wyo youth: Six visions of a future in the state

  Wyoming stands at the crossroads of a permanently shrinking coal industry and a historic budget crisis as its dominant conservative politics move further to the right on several issues.

  1 week ago

• Q&A: Locked up kids and government transparency in Wyoming

  From now until the 2022 legislative session, the Joint Judiciary Committee will study the state’s handling of kids who run into legal trouble with an eye toward improving Wyoming’s juvenile justice system.

  1 week ago

• Former legislator arrested in trafficking sting, pleads not guilty

  A former Wyoming legislator from Green River entered not guilty pleas to misdemeanor charges of solicitation of prostitution and interference with a peace officer Friday afternoon.

  1 week ago

• Man convicted in mother-in-law’s death murder

  A jury on Friday convicted a Casper man of murdering his mother-in-law in 2019.

  1 week ago

• Gordon plans to avoid cuts in next state budget

  Gov. Mark Gordon’s office will develop the bulk of the next state budget without cuts thanks to improved revenue projections released last week, an official said Friday.

  1 week ago

• Democratic leaders say session lacked vision

  Senate Minority Leader Chris Rothfuss and House Minority Leader Cathy Connolly, both D-Laramie, held a Facebook Live forum Thursday night to discuss the general session, which concluded in early April.

  1 week ago

• Wyoming, Idaho among bottom five for first COVID shots

  Wyoming and Idaho boast two of the lowest rates of residents who have received their first shots of a COVID-19 vaccine.

  1 week ago

• New Makerspace opens in Sublette

  Pinedale Wyrkshop, a new Makerspace based in Pinedale, opened its doors this week to anyone seeking access to best-in-class tech tools so they can take their creative projects to the next level.

  2 weeks ago

• Lummis brings Wyoming's K-12 budget issue to Senate

  U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis recently invited Wyoming State Sen. Affie Ellis, R-Cheyenne, to Washington, D.C., so she could testify about the importance of the energy sector to Wyoming’s schools before the Banking Committee hearing on April 20.

  2 weeks ago

• Gordon, Barrasso blast BLM for lack of 2Q sale

  Gov. Gordon and Sen. Barrasso both addressed the lack of the Bureau of Land Management's lack of a second-quarter lease sale.

  2 weeks ago

• Wyoming joins new lawsuit against Biden administration

  Gov. Mark Gordon announced on April 22 that Wyoming has joined yet another lawsuit against the Biden administration – this one focusing on President Biden’s executive action taken to seek cutting greenhouse gases.

  2 weeks ago

• Wyoming energy sector testifies in D.C.

  The Cowboy State’s vital energy sector made its case known on Capital Hill last week as Sen. John Barrasso invited some of the state’s energy experts to testify in front the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, of which Barrasso is a ranking member, before the senator himself made his own impassioned statements.

  2 weeks ago

• Meeks, B3 competes for $50K prize

  Big Piney native Perri Meeks and his B3 co-founder Brayton Sanders of Evanston are one of nine University of Wyoming student-led teams that competed for the John. P. Ellbogen $50K Entrepreneurship Competition on April 23-24.

  2 weeks ago

• BPHS duo chosen for Girls State

  Autumn Wright and Britney Jones were both chosen for their outstanding achievements within their school and community to represent Big Piney during the 79th annual session.

  2 weeks ago

• PAPO's annual planning materials are online only

  The Bureau of Land Management Pinedale Field Office will not hold a physical meeting in 2021 for the Pinedale Anticline Project Area wildlife, air, water and operator planning sessions.

  3 weeks ago

• CFD shatters 2-day ticket sales record

  Cheyenne Frontier Days set a two-day cumulative sales record with 104,619 tickets sold across all events for this summer’s festivities.

  3 weeks ago

• UW reduces restrictions for summer semester

  UW announced last month its fall semester would be at full capacity.

  3 weeks ago

• Sublette unemployment rate decreased in March

  Seasonally adjusted unemployment numbers in Wyoming remained steady while Sublette County’s unemployment rate fell in March from the previous month.

  3 weeks ago

• State emerges from session with no long-term budget, ed solutions

  The Wyoming Legislature entered the 2021 legislative session with a lofty agenda to cut education spending, stall revenue declines and guide a Wyoming economy battered by COVID-19 to a sustainable future.

  3 weeks ago

• County gets grant for Teton Pass planning

  A federal program intended to improve access to public lands has granted $300,000 to study transportation, access points and wildlife-vehicle collisions on Teton Pass.

  1 month ago

• DOI plans fossil fuel forum for March 25

  The Department of the Interior just announced a virtual forum set for Thursday, March 25, as part of its “comprehensive review of the federal oil and gas program called for in Executive Order 14008.”

  1 month ago

• Big Piney students place at Wyoming State Science Fair

  Students were interviewed virtually through a secure portal system from 8 a.m.-12 p.m. that day.

  1 month ago

• Suspect in toddler death held without bond

  Wyatt Dean Lamb, a suspect in the death of 2-year-old Athian Rivera, appeared March 4 in Laramie County District Court in relation to a domestic violence incident from February 2020.

  2 months ago

• Lawsuit seeks to halt health orders

  A lawsuit against Park County’s public health officer and the governor seeks to immediately stop all current state COVID-19 health order restrictions.

  2 months ago

• Bousman applauds new program for direct aid to counties

  The National Association of Counties applauded the inclusion of a new program to provide additional direct aid to public lands counties as part of the American Rescue Plan Act.

  2 months ago

• COVID vaccine registration opens further

  Registration for COVID-19 vaccinations has opened into Phase 1C in Sublette County.

  2 months ago

• Wyoming's senators vote against Biden energy pick

  Sen. John Barrasso cast a vote against President Joe Biden’s pick for energy secretary Thursday over concerns former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s leadership would “crush” Wyoming’s economy built on fossil fuels.

  2 months ago

• Sublette natives among Gordon's latest appointments

  Gov. Gordon’s selections included three nominees and appointees with Sublette County roots.

  2 months ago

• New insights gleaned from Wardell Bison Trap study

  Artifacts make up a central displace at the Green River Valley Museum in Big Piney.

  2 months ago

• Health Department warns against vaccine scams

  The Wyoming Department of Health is asking residents to be vigilant about scammers promising expedited access to a COVID-19 vaccine in exchange for personal information over the phone.

  2 months ago

• Gordon backs bills to help industries

  Governor focuses on energy, tourism and agriculture.

  3 months ago

• Delegation drafts different energy protection bills

  Sens. Barrasso and Lummis, Rep. Cheney all bring legislation to the table for Wyoming amid energy lease moratorium.

  3 months ago

• Wyoming leaders criticize pause to federal oil leasing

  The order came as one of the Biden Administration's first acts.

  3 months ago

• Judge stalls Wyo’s repayment of $47 million in oil lease revenue

  Wyoming can first appeal Judge Ronald Bush’s decision to vacate the auctions.

  11 months ago