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PETA sues Rock Springs airport for rejecting vegan moo-cow carry-on ad
The animal rights group PETA sued the Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport on Tuesday claiming officials violated the U.S. Constitution when they rejected an ad depicting a moo-cow carry-on that urged...
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To prevent private development on state land, Teton County closes in on...
JACKSON—Naysayers were nowhere to be found Thursday in the Teton County commissioners’ chambers, where residents showered praise on a plan to lease a 640-acre swath of state land on Munger Mountain to...
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Should police confront squatters? Wyoming lawmakers mull statute change
Amid growing concerns about housing, opioids and mental health, there are reports around the U.S. of homeless people moving into spaces like Airbnbs, unoccupied homes and abandoned buildings to seek...
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Has Wyoming’s attempt to stop bogus ‘no trespassing’ signs made a difference?
If you’ve been hiking or hunting in Wyoming, you’ve likely come across no trespassing signs. But sometimes what lies beyond those signs isn’t actually private property. Instead, it’s public land,...
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Spooked by price tag, billionaire cans under-construction luxury resort in...
Billionaire Joe Ricketts has ordered crews to immediately stop construction of his long-planned Sublette County luxury resort, and restore the area to its natural condition. A project that would have...
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State considers limiting local authority over housing, zoning and development
As a state panel eyes limiting local governments’ authority to regulate development, two mayors are calling on the Legislature to address housing shortages and affordability by instead giving...
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Secretary of State calls for retests of voting machines 8 days before Wyoming...
With just over one week before the 2024 primary elections, Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray has formally requested that several county clerks around the Equality State redo tests of voting...
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BLM wins two lawsuits, clearing way for elimination of two Wyoming wild horse...
WHITE MOUNTAIN—“That’s a lot of horses,” lamented Cheyenne resident Robyn Smith from a high-desert ridgeline. Wild horse advocate Robyn Smith, of Cheyenne, chats while observing the Bureau of Land...
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Hunting-conservation, green groups split on best protections for Wind River...
A schism has formed in the wildlife advocacy community over whether Wyoming ought to increase proposed protections for a migration corridor that leads mule deer from the Wind River Basin lowlands up...
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The right to snowmobile over wildlife could soon be explicitly protected in...
Residents who enjoy snowmobiling over wildlife could see their wintertime recreational pursuit explicitly protected by law if a draft bill headed for a legislative committee advances unchanged....
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Wyoming’s legal embrace of killing wildlife with snowmobiles triggers federal...
The fallout from the infamous incident involving a Wyoming wolf that was run down by Daniel man on a snowmobile, badly injured and paraded into a bar now includes federal legislation aimed at banning...
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Wyoming wildlife officials OK rancher payment plan for elk-eaten grass
DOUGLAS—Wyoming Game and Fish Commissioners have OK’d a new compensation program that may resolve a sometimes-fiery debate over whether the state should pay livestock producers more for forage eaten...
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State rebuffs claims that mandatory life sentences for people under 21 are...
Attorneys for the state of Wyoming are disputing a legal team’s argument that mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole for adults who committed crimes before age of 21 violate the...
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Advocates, western governors renew push for outdoor recreation act
Advocates and western governors this month doubled down on a push to pass into law legislation aimed at improving outdoor recreation on federal lands. The Expanding Public Lands Outdoor Recreation...
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Wyoming agencies seek more grazing, drilling access via Rock Springs RMP...
Five state agencies have filed formal protest letters with the Bureau of Land Management seeking broad changes in the administration of 3.6 million acres of public property in southwest Wyoming....
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Native student tuition waivers now in University of Wyoming’s court
University of Wyoming President Ed Seidel committed Thursday to spearheading an effort to define what Native student tuition waivers could look like at Wyoming’s sole public, four-year college. He...
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Federal policy change is poised to end Wyoming gun club’s pelican killing
A southeast Wyoming pelican-killing operation will end after one heated season, though one man trying to protect stocked trout says he’ll fight for the right to keep shotgunning the hefty birds. After...
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Teton County, Jackson say bill giving developers a break undermines...
Teton County and Jackson officials pushed back against a legislative panel’s efforts to boost affordable housing by limiting “exaction” fees collected at the local level to offset the impact of...
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Holding an election in remote Wyoming requires extraordinary measures. Just...
BAIROIL—Audra Thornton knew every person who visited town hall on Tuesday to cast their vote in the election. But she still turned some folks away, instructing them to return with their IDs. After...
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Federal sage grouse plans panned by Wyoming and environmentalists, praised by...
Plans to better conserve sage grouse on 65 million federal acres of the imperiled birds’ embattled habitat are being simultaneously cast by competing interest as either overly burdensome on western...
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