CASPER — In April, the Biden administration proposed a new rule that would allow conservation groups to lease federal lands the same way oil and gas, mining operations and ranchers do, a plan that drew swift pushback from Wyoming politicians and extractive industries.

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.

JACKSON — Smith’s parent company Kroger responded Wednesday to reports of employees prohibiting teens, ages 17 and under, from entering the Jackson grocery store.

SUNDANCE — It’s been more than seven years since Rare Element Resources (RER) was forced to put a hold on all the permitting activities associated with its rare earth mine in the Bearlodge Mountains.

Rawlins will receive a $500,000 Brownfields Assessment grant to develop cleanup and revitalization plans for some 20 properties in an effort to remediate environmental and human health hazards while giving the town’s economy a boost.

SHERIDAN — Wyoming’s Telecommunications Act is set to expire in 2025, and legislators have begun work on potential amendments or a replacement bill.

CHEYENNE — Less than a week before Wyoming Department of Education officials were scheduled to appear in Laramie County District Court for a public records lawsuit hearing, the state agency provided 1,170 pages of public records in connection to an anti-sexualization press conference.

SHERIDAN — Sen. Cale Case, R-Lander, thinks Wyoming poll watchers should be able to observe vote counting.

JACKSON — A former Jackson Police Department lieutenant who argued that he was illegally forced to quit in 2020 was awarded $235,000 Friday following a federal trial in Cheyenne.

BUFFALO — For decades Dave Belus and his family have ranched across Johnson County, grazing their cattle on a patchwork of private and Bureau of Land Management land.

CASPER — All of Wyoming’s pregnancy-related deaths are preventable, and the state can do more to support pregnant women, mothers and families, a first-of-its-kind report says.

CHEYENNE — A coalition of Wyoming residents who say they are advocating for educators, books and the First Amendment has come together in Laramie County.

A federal judge received improper proposals — which he neither reviewed nor considered — regarding how he should decide on the high-profile corner-crossing trespass case, according to a ruling he filed Friday.

LANDER—Wyoming residents could face a new hurdle when registering to vote if Secretary of State Chuck Gray gets his way.

Biologists once found a crayfish with an entire garter snake and several fish inside a female bullfrog near Sheridan. That may sound like an impressive amount of food for a two-pound frog, but it’s actually pretty standard for the voracious amphibians. Wendy Estes-Zumpf, the state’s herpetol…

John Mowat remembers the day 71 years ago when he and three others became the first to climb the Grand Teton’s Second Tower, a pyramid on the mountain’s skyline that partially crumbled last fall.

CASPER — A grand jury has formally indicted a Fort Washakie man accused of threatening to shoot an FBI special agent in the head.

JACKSON — After Avery Ward wrapped up her day at the Teton Literacy Center on May 23, her stomach hurt so she headed to Smith’s with a friend to grab some over-the-counter medicine.

CHEYENNE — One of Wyoming’s largest natural gas suppliers is proposing a 7% increase in residential customers’ service charges.

CHEYENNE — All of the election policy proposals put forward by Secretary of State Chuck Gray and his team will be considered by the Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee during the current interim period between sessions.