MLB won’t play ball in Grand Teton National Park
Major League Baseball “will not continue to evaluate Grand Teton National Park as a potential site,” for a game, Commissioner Robert Manfred told local officials in a letter Thursday. Manfred’s letter...
View ArticleTrump orders plans to unlock isolated public land, revise river-trip permitting
President Donald Trump last week ordered federal land managers to boost public access to public lands, including to landlocked checkerboard parcels and to Western whitewater rivers. The order, titled...
View ArticleBackers of troubled Alkali Dam project threaten condemnation of private land
Backers of the proposed Alkali Creek Dam near Hyattville expect they will condemn ranch property if landowners don’t agree to sell easements necessary for construction and operation of the troubled...
View ArticleTwo neighboring Wyoming towns diverge over controversial automated license...
In Converse County, the city of Douglas is looking into installing controversial license plate readers as a crime-fighting tool while just 30 miles west along I-25, Glenrock is pushing pause on...
View ArticleBeefing over foreign beef plan, Barrasso breaks with Trump administration
Wyoming cattle ranchers and a sitting senator representing the nation’s most pro-Trump state are pushing back on the president’s plan to import tariff-free foreign beef from unidentified countries in...
View ArticleThe Trump administration upended how we fight wildfires. Then came the West’s...
Four firefighters, two helicopter pilots and a contractor bulldozing a fireline have died in Colorado, Utah and Oregon this year. Fast-moving fires have burned millions of acres and destroyed hundreds...
View ArticleWhat is the ‘10 a.m. Rule?’ Controversial firefighting strategy could be back
Wildfires once ran on deadlines. After a series of catastrophic blazes in the early 20th century, the U.S. Forest Service sought to show it was able to control and protect forests under its care. In...
View ArticleBurgum OKs Colorado River plan, sparing cuts to Wyoming water use
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum signed a 10-year plan Friday that preserves Wyoming’s decades-long allocation for the drought-plagued Colorado River Basin. The plan sets operating criteria for releases...
View ArticleTrump administration plan could bring new roads to pristine woods covering 4%...
The Trump administration unveiled a plan Wednesday to build more roads in pristine national forests, releasing figures that show near-term construction of new motorized networks would be possible...
View ArticleColorado River crisis threatens crops, not Wyoming’s dam plans, experts say
A federal drought plan for the Colorado River and its tributaries in Wyoming shouldn’t stop Wyoming from building a new dam and reservoir in Carbon County, two Western water experts say. The Bureau of...
View ArticleRural health panel divvies $205M in federal funds for Wyoming healthcare
In its marathon meeting Tuesday, Wyoming’s new rural health advisory panel earmarked roughly $200 million in President Trump’s Rural Health Transformation funds to a range of applicants hoping to...
View ArticleWyoming archaeologists take BLM to court over Native sites, human remains
RIVERTON—As often-White researchers dig up ancient Native sites, the archaeology of the West can be fraught with tension. A group of Wyoming archaeologists claims that the BLM has overstepped its...
View ArticleWyoming congressional candidates talk paying for their campaigns, roadless...
CASPER—One of the spicier moments of Thursday night’s U.S. House of Representatives forum came when the eight-person panel was asked about the record-breaking sums of personal and family cash that...
View ArticleForest Service OKs cattle in Wyoming allotments with history of grizzly conflict
Cattle growers can use a roughly 48-square-mile swath of the Gros Ventre Range this summer that was retired from sheep grazing a decade ago, and rangeland watchdogs are raising questions about the...
View ArticleAs data centers flood Wyoming, water pollution fouls good faith
The contamination of a Cheyenne water system by a Meta data center underscores the worries residents have about more than two-dozen data centers that are and could be consuming Wyoming’s energy, water...
View ArticleLDS church would get sacred site, Martin’s Cove, under proposed BLM land...
NATRONA COUNTY—Driving eastbound toward Martin’s Cove, Lloyd Larsen tried to hammer home the profound cultural significance of the place he was headed. His destination, about an hour’s drive southwest...
View ArticleChief Tom Schultz details, defends largest Forest Service reorganization in a...
PARK CITY, UTAH—The U.S. Forest Service received roughly 300 applications for the 15 new state director jobs created during a major agency reorganization that’s dissolving regional offices the...
View ArticleLawmakers mull reviving state program to funnel money to towns, counties for...
Resurrecting Wyoming’s countywide consensus funding program could help pay for billions of dollars in immediate infrastructure needs, like water and sewer, for towns and counties. The Wyoming...
View ArticleGrand Teton, Yellowstone visitors find no ideological bias in signage
JACKSON—Visitors to Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks left more than 500 comments in response to a Department of the Interior call for feedback on signage that disparages American history....
View ArticleWyoming improves in child well-being, new report finds
Wyoming jumped in nationwide child well-being rankings in a new report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The 2026 Kids Count Data Book ranked Wyoming 12th based on family and community stability,...
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