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Hunters claim in filing that courts have OK’d corner crossing
The U.S. Supreme Court has already established that corner crossing from one piece of public land to another is legal, a hunters’ advocacy group says in a court filing. Backcountry Hunters and Anglers...
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Railroad workers plan to rally at Capitol
Union representatives and railroad worker supporters plan to rally at the Capitol in Cheyenne Tuesday to advocate for better labor policies. The rally, scheduled to begin at noon, is organized by...
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Supreme Court in, intervenors out, in Wyoming abortion ban case
A judge has ordered that the suit challenging the constitutionality of Wyoming’s abortion ban be certified, or advanced, to the Wyoming Supreme Court, and has enumerated 12 questions of law for...
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Wyoming has few plans for its opioid settlement millions
Money from lawsuit settlements with opioid manufacturers and distributors is starting to trickle into Wyoming, but state and local governments still don’t know how they’ll use the funds. Wyoming is...
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Property tax, corner-crossing lawsuit values differ for Elk Mt. Ranch
The owner of the 22,045-acre Elk Mountain Ranch, who is suing for $7.75 million in damages from four corner-crossing hunters, paid property taxes last week based on a ranch value that’s about 35% of...
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Staffing challenges reach Wyoming’s top offices
Though Wyoming’s five statewide elected officials were sworn in Monday, a handful of key positions in two of their offices remain vacant. While some turnover is normal during a transitional period...
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Leery of open forum, water group struggles to inform public
CHEYENNE—Members of a working group created by Gov. Mark Gordon to “disseminate information” and “act as a sounding board for the public and stakeholders” regarding Colorado River Compact issues...
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Post-Herrera, Wyoming seeks hunting pacts with tribes
Until now Monte Mills had never seen a state try to promulgate rules that stem directly from Herrera v. Wyoming, a U.S. Supreme Court decision that recognized a Crow tribal member’s right to hunt...
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Alert system for at-risk adults flies forward
A bill to create an alert system for abducted, kidnapped or compromised adults has thus far sailed through the Wyoming Legislature. House Bill 18 – Missing person alert systems passed through the...
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Hageman blasts administrative state, enviro agencies
U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman will take aim at one of her favorite targets — the administrative state — in her newly appointed roles on the Judiciary and Natural Resources committees in Washington, the...
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BLM seeks public input on ‘industrial solar’ projects
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management will solicit comments on plans to boost “utility-scale” solar energy development on public lands, during one of a series of public meetings across the West in...
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Government coal mandate hits free-market hurdle
A legislative effort to prop up the coal industry is hitting free-market headwinds. The 2020 measure mandated that utilities looking to close coal-fired power plants first try to retrofit the...
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‘Don’t do it’: Utility responds to latest coal mandate
The Wyoming Legislature may double down on mandates designed to keep coal-fired power plants running, and fossil fuel revenues flowing, despite the high costs of existing directives and electric...
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Tribal hunting bill dies, but not before ‘poisoning the well’
CHEYENNE—The Wyoming Legislature’s effort to craft policy recognizing tribal members’ treaty-enshrined hunting rights to pursue wild game on ancestral lands unraveled this week. Once broadly...
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Thousands in Wyoming could soon lose their health insurance
Between 10,000 and 15,000 people in Wyoming may lose their Medicaid insurance coverage in the next year, according to the Wyoming Department of Health. Part of the reason is that two federal COVID-19...
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Hunters pan legislative inaction, call for citizen response on corner crossing
A hunters’ group wants Wyoming residents to debate corner-crossing laws and other trespass issues, saying it won’t wait on a foot-dragging Legislature to have a robust statewide conversation. The...
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At State Archive, ‘we keep records as a means of transparency’
For Sunshine Week — the nationwide celebration of public records and transparency — WyoFile checks in on a pillar of open government. The Wyoming State Archives, established in 1951, preserves and...
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Behind the reporting: a public records playbook
Today is James Madison’s birthday and the midway point in Sunshine Week — the nationwide celebration of government transparency, accountability and freedom of information. It’s a fitting overlap...
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Hageman, state officials tout circumventing Endangered Species Act
A Wyoming official testified this week that he supported using “whatever means is necessary” to obtain management authority over the Yellowstone area’s federally protected grizzly bears. Brian...
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Wyoming is the deadliest state in the nation for workers, again
In recent years Wyoming workers have died falling from roofs, getting crushed by machinery, being killed on roadways and, on one occasion, falling through ice during a rescue attempt, according to...
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