A Christmas tradition in northwest Wyoming will mark its 21st year in Cody to highlight the weekend’s activities.

CODY — In an unusual high-profile cooperative move, 44 former United States senators, including Al Simpson, wrote an open letter to the current 100 members of the U.S. Senate warning them the nation is facing perilous times.

JACKSON (WNE) — Jackson Hole Airport will shift to sustainable energy starting this winter, becoming the largest organization in the region to go green.

CHEYENNE – In an effort to bring more money into the state’s coffers, Wyoming’s state government could soon be using a part of its “rainy-day” fund to invest in the stock market. A proposed bill being worked on by the Joint Appropriations Committee would let Wyoming invest a portion of the L…

LARAMIE (WNE) — In what was described as a miscommunication between Youhanna Ghaifan’s attorneys, the suspended University of Wyoming defensive tackle missed his Wednesday disposition hearing, in which a defendant typically enters a plea.

WORLAND — A bill overwhelmingly supported by the U.S. House of Representatives was killed in the Senate on Monday, when Senator Mike Enzi of Wyoming objected, citing the increasing cost of care for U.S. Navy veterans exposed to Agent Orange and various herbicides during the Vietnam War.

POWELL (WNE) — Former state lawmaker Sam Krone — on supervised probation for stealing more than $9,600 from a local lawyer’s group — is asking a judge to let him off probation a couple years early.

GREYBULL (WNE) — More than a year after being charged with vehicular homicide, Emmanuel Shuman has changed his plea.

POWELL, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming man was ordered to pay $1,855 for killing a gray wolf in the state's trophy zone without a license — and then trying to pretend he had taken the animal legally.

RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) — An elementary school student brought a handgun to school in Rawlins and showed it to a classmate, but police say the student did not shoot the weapon or threaten anyone.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A legislative committee has recommended Buffalo as the site for a potential state-run nursing home for veterans.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Gov. Matt Mead has appointed Kerri M. Johnson as the newest district judge for the 7th Judicial District.

CHEYENNE — Lawmakers have named Buffalo as the site for a potential subsidized long-term treatment facility for veterans in Wyoming. The home of the Veterans' Home of Wyoming beat out Sheridan and Casper for the potential new facility after hours of debate Tuesday.

JACKSON — U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney won’t receive written pushback from Teton County about a bill that would loosen land protection in the Snake River Range and prevent the Bridger-Teton National Forest from inventorying new wilderness.

Water developers are seeking $1.2 million in federal funds to advance a much-debated 280-foot high dam and reservoir proposed in the Little Snake River drainage in Carbon County.

RIVERTON (WNE) — Two Fremont County residents died early Sunday in a house fire in Shoshoni.

CHEYENNE (WNE) — Attorney General Peter Michael declared some video "skill games" illegal under Wyoming gambling laws Tuesday.

RAWLINS (WNE) — A Rawlins Elementary School student was apprehended by local authorities on Tuesday after bringing a handgun to campus.

SHOSHONI, Wyo. (AP) — A house fire in central Wyoming over the weekend has left two Fremont County residents dead.

CODY, Wyo. (AP) — A 38-year-old Wyoming man has been fined $25,500 for killing a sow grizzly bear last year.

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — University of Wyoming officials say the city of Laramie should increase the penalties leveled to businesses that sell alcohol to minors.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Cheyenne building safety officials have ordered that a local hotel be demolished.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — The world's tallest active geyser has set a record.

CHEYENNE — Gov. Matt Mead laid out his last supplemental budget request Monday to members of the Legislature’s Joint Appropriations Committee.

JACKSON (WNE) — The highest-shooting geyser in the world, which propels water up to 300 feet over the Norris Geyser Basin, has shot off for a record 30th time this year.

CODY (WNE) — While hunting for elk in October 2017 a Casper man encountered a much larger animal, in that of a sow grizzly bear. He will now pay a steep price for illegally shooting the bear – he was recently fined $25,500 in Park County Circuit Court.

CHEYENNE (WNE) — A Cheyenne icon is down for the count.

CASPER — The two Jesuit priests who served at St. Stephens Mission and were included on a list last week of Jesuit clergymen who faced credible sexual abuse allegations served in leadership positions at Wyoming and Missouri schools.

POWELL — The harvest of wolf 926F during the Montana hunting season reignited a firestorm of calls to end hunting of the species — or at least making a wide buffer zone around Yellowstone National Park.

LARAMIE — Laramie should significantly increase the penalties leveled to businesses that sell alcohol to minors, University of Wyoming Vice President for Student Affairs Sean Blackburn suggested Monday.

EVANSTON — A former director of Uinta Senior Citizens, Inc., which operates the senior centers in Evanston and the Bridger Valley, is scheduled to be sentenced in Cheyenne on Jan. 3, 2019, for misusing public funds.

POWELL (WNE) — A Cody man has been ordered to pay $1,855 for killing a gray wolf in the state’s trophy zone without a license — and then attempting to pretend he’d taken the animal legally.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming's governor-elect has named six more people to top roles in his administration.

CASPER (WNE) — The second largest thermal coal producer in the U.S. is moving about 100 miners from its Coal Creek mine in northern Wyoming to its higher-production Black Thunder mine outside Wright.

CHEYENNE — Start a conversation about Wyoming state government's finances with lawmakers or outside observers, and inevitably the talk will move to the need for the state to diversify where it gets its money.

CASPER — The Diocese of Cheyenne is compiling a list of priests, bishops and deacons who have been credibly accused of sexual abuse since 1950, Bishop Steven Biegler announced this week, signaling that the Wyoming diocese is joining a wave of public self-examinations by dioceses across the country.

JACKSON — Environmental attorneys are calling on the National Elk Refuge to make good on old promises and produce a decade-delayed plan detailing how it will achieve a court-ordered reduction in elk feeding.

CHEYENNE (WNE) — A Cheyenne man accused of killing a 41-year-old man outside a home on Belaire Avenue appeared Friday in Laramie County Circuit Court, facing a single count of first-degree murder.

CHEYENNE (WNE)— A Cheyenne man pleaded guilty Friday in Laramie County District Court to aggravated vehicular homicide in connection with a fatal chase with police in July.

JACKSON (WNE) — The federal government is stepping in to provide relief to residents of Hoback Ranches, where the Roosevelt Fire destroyed a third of the subdivision’s 150 homes and consumed 60,000 acres.

CODY, Wyo. (AP) — Nearly 300 of the country's top sharpshooters will gather in northern Wyoming next summer for the Governor's Match gun shoot.

RIVERTON, Wyo. (AP) — The Riverton City Council has defeated a proposed ordinance barring "habitually intoxicated persons" from purchasing alcohol in city limits.

CASPER — The Parkway Plaza hotel in Casper has a new owner after being sold at a sheriff’s auction.

JACKSON — Wolf biologist Doug Smith wants to smarten up Yellowstone’s wolves.

CHEYENNE — Wyoming is aging. And as the state’s population gets older, the state government could end up dealing with the very expensive proposition of providing care for more and more of its citizens.