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No limit, year-round lion hunting? Wyoming lawmaker looks to end...
Since 1973, Wyoming has managed mountain lions in a way that promotes their existence, using regulations that have allowed the native felines to bounce back from extreme scarcity. Cougars were once...
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Wyoming lawmakers bring two grizzly bills as future of federal protection...
Uncertainty is swirling around what will become of plans to retain grizzly bears’ federally protected status following a change of presidential administrations and an Interior secretary nominee who’s...
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Sweeping state immigration crackdown to get Wyoming committee hearing
Under a bill brought by Sen. Cheri Steinmetz, every police officer in Wyoming will be required to ask every person they pull over to prove their lawful presence in the United States. If the stopped...
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Heavily amended immigration enforcement bill heads to Senate floor
Wyoming residents from mixed-immigration-status families fear a Torrington Republican’s deportation and detainment bill will bring racial profiling and arrests to immigrant communities. Language in...
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Momentum builds to save tree ‘Yellowstone Forest Reserve’ surveyors inscribed...
Right now there’s a tree frozen up in the wilderness outside of Yellowstone National Park with names scrawled into the trunk. The vandals? A survey crew stranded in a snowstorm 132 years ago....
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Wyoming’s 8,100 federal workers face deadline today to respond to Trump’s...
Update: A federal judge on Thursday blocked enforcement of the “deferred resignation” deadline, according to numerous news reports. U.S. District Judge George O’Toole in Massachusetts issued the order...
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Wyoming Senate demands Congress hand over federal land, including Grand Teton
The Wyoming Senate narrowly voted Thursday for a resolution demanding that Congress turn over some 30 million federal acres to the state — but only after first defeating the measure and then...
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Wyoming Senate nears immigration crackdown vote as fear spreads outside...
Backers of legislation that would criminalize transporting or sheltering undocumented immigrants in Wyoming this week sought to downplay fears sparked by the measure. “When you’re not doing anything...
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Bill to strip Wyoming landowners’ right to sell property to the feds goes...
The Wyoming Senate is set today to consider a bill that would regulate the sale of private land to the federal government, a measure critics say erodes a fundamental property right. A Senate panel...
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Senate kills resolution demanding takeover of federal land in Wyoming
In a tie vote, the Wyoming Senate defeated a resolution demanding Congress turn over all federal land in the state but Yellowstone, even after senators amended the measure to exclude Grand Teton...
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Wyoming Senate sinks immigrant crackdown bill amid questions over legality,...
CHEYENNE—With a lopsided vote in a nearly empty chamber Monday night, the state Senate dispatched a controversial bill to bring an immigration crackdown to Wyoming. The measure had drawn outcry from...
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Trump taps former Wyoming Game and Fish chief Nesvik to lead U.S. Fish and...
Brian Nesvik, a former Pinedale game warden turned Wyoming Game and Fish Department director, has been nominated by the Trump administration to lead the agency that manages the nation’s wildlife....
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After Byron tragedy, governor says Wyoming must ‘double down’ on mental...
A seemingly unfathomable triple murder and suicide in the small Bighorn Basin town of Byron this week is a reminder that Wyoming government and communities need to “double down” on combatting mental...
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Constitutional issue impedes elimination of Wyoming’s protected wildlife list
A bill to authorize game wardens to deal with sometimes-pesky otters turned, for a moment, into an effort to altogether eliminate Wyoming’s 72-year-old “protected” wildlife list. The state...
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Valentine’s Day massacre: Uncounted throng of Wyomingites fired by Trump...
A wave of federal-employee layoffs swept the nation Friday, leaving an undisclosed number of Wyoming workers from multiple agencies suddenly jobless and bereft of explanations in its wake. How many...
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Fear is driving Wyoming politicians, immigrants in divergent directions
At first glance, Jose and Sara are the kind of couple Wyoming politicians like to talk about most. Jose is a welder who works in the oil fields. Until recently, Sara worked at a coal mine. The couple...
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Amid rising tensions, Wyoming Legislature welcomes Canada, biggest buyer of...
The Republican leaders of the Wyoming Legislature touted the state’s relationship with Canada and called for that partnership to continue Wednesday, even as President Donald Trump targets the...
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Wyoming delegation scrambles to restore millions for irrigators’ water...
Wyoming’s federal delegation has filed legislation to restore millions of dollars to pay state irrigators in the Colorado River Basin for conserving water. Bills filed in the U.S. Senate and House...
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Wyoming senators skeptical of bill banning out-of-state licenses for...
A divide is forming between House lawmakers backing a bill that would invalidate out-of-state driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants and senators worried about unintended consequences. House...
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Federal staffers in Wyoming receive new job-threatening ultimatum
Elon Musk on Saturday threatened federal workers in Wyoming and nationwide with losing their jobs in a social post that one U.S. Forest Service employee said was an effort “to psychologically break...
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