Ten years ago, when 72-year-old Vernon Hunter felt pneumonia pulling at the last strings of his life, he told Robert and James Tarver to get their suits ready. Days later, the twenty-something … more

The final price that the county will pay on the Children’s Developmental Center is going to be about $8.5 million — a little less than a prediction of $8.8 million from last spring.Van … more

CASPER, Wyo. — Faculty and students on Tuesday remembered two slain instructors at a Wyoming community college as gentle and effective educators who loved life and each other. One colleague of … more

PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota regulators have approved a permit for a mining company to explore for gold at a site overlooking Spearfish Canyon in the Black Hills. The exploration permit does not … more

MIDWEST, Wyo. — The plant sits in a valley near Ship Rock, empty, broken and forgotten.Sixty years have not been kind to this building.The walls were once a solid, concrete gray. Fifty-four … more

WASHINGTON — The leaders of an independent panel that blamed systematic State Department management and leadership failures for gross security lapses in the deadly Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. … more

KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan policewoman shot and killed an American adviser outside the police headquarters in Kabul on Monday, the latest in a rising tide of insider attacks by Afghans against … more

Lunches Sunday: Noon, carry-in, game day. more

DENVER — Environmentalists say newly proposed state-sponsored studies of emissions tied to oil and gas development announced Wednesday are too little, too late, and amount to using people as "lab … more