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Trump cuts may cost a trout-brooding, Wyoming toad-rearing federal hatchery...
SARATOGA—”Chaos.” That was the single word a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee landed on to describe what life and work have been like at the Saratoga National Fish Hatchery since an offer for...
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Wyoming pols back DOGE as fired federal workers try to pick up the pieces
She knew what was coming when she saw a one-on-one video conference suddenly added to her work calendar on Feb. 14. “I hit connect and the look on [the supervisor’s] face — I will never forget it,”...
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Forest Service chief resigns, tells Wyoming, national workforce to brace for...
Hundreds of U.S. Forest Service employees in Wyoming opened their inbox Wednesday to find a consoling message from their chief that offered some clarity to the resignations, layoffs and turmoil that...
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Bill voiding driver’s licenses issued by other states to undocumented...
Despite mounting questions, state lawmakers sent a bill to Gov. Mark Gordon that would invalidate the driver’s licenses other states issue to people in the country illegally. If Gordon signs the...
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Wyoming lawmakers scramble to salvage spending priorities after budget fails
Lawmakers and lobbyists scrambled Thursday to find new homes for their funding priorities by inserting them into often unrelated bills after the Wyoming Senate jettisoned the state’s supplemental...
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Wyoming BLM staff, key to Trump’s ‘energy dominance,’ largely spared by...
The Trump administration’s purge of “probationary”-status employees has not, to date, been felt as acutely within the Bureau of Land Management as it has in some other federal agencies that manage...
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Wyoming will invalidate out-of-state driver’s licenses for undocumented...
Wyoming will invalidate the driver’s licenses that some states issue to undocumented immigrants under a new law that Gov. Mark Godon acknowledged has thrust the Equality State into uncharted waters....
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Felony animal cruelty probe still ‘active’ one year after Wyoming wolf’s...
Local prosecutors continue to investigate whether felony animal cruelty charges are warranted in the now year-old case of a western Wyoming man accused of badly injuring a juvenile wolf with a...
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How government mistrust sank legislation aimed at better supporting Wyoming...
Going into the legislative session, a bill to give the Wyoming Department of Family Services more flexibility to use the confidential data it collects appeared very passable. The statute change had...
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Musk’s DOGE to eliminate Fish and Wildlife’s tribal Lander office, USGS’...
Working out of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Lander office back in the 1970s, biologist Richard Baldes helped engineer a remarkable turnaround for species nearly or completely gone from the...
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Jason Marsden remembered as respected reporter, Wyoming pioneer of gay rights
It was just after Matthew Shepard was assaulted and tortured in an anti-gay hate crime, then left to die tied to a buckrail fence near Laramie. As a stunned community prepared to remember him at an...
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Dead, CWD-infected elk found at third Wyoming feedground in just two months
Always-deadly chronic wasting disease has been found at a third Wyoming elk feedground, in an animal that had lived in a different area where an epidemic that could crater the population appears to be...
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University of Wyoming drops partnership amid Trump administration...
The University of Wyoming has cut ties with a project that landed it on a list of 45 universities under federal investigation for allegedly engaging in race-exclusionary practices in their graduate...
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Trump administration delays deadline for feedback on federal protection for...
More than 47,000 people, organizations and agencies have taken the time to send in their thoughts on federal wildlife managers’ Biden-era proposal to continue classifying grizzly bears as “threatened”...
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Wyoming’s elected officials disclose potential conflicts of interest
The Wyoming Ethics and Disclosure Act requires elected officials in Wyoming’s executive branch — the governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, state auditor and superintendent of public...
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DOGE is the talk of Wyoming. What are state leaders saying and doing about...
AFTON—U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman’s remark about the U.S. Agency for International Development triggered one of the most raucous rounds of applause of the evening. Even before the Trump administration’s...
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Wyoming to absorb ~3,500 Bureau of Reclamation acres near Glendo Reservoir
The wheels are in motion — and potentially nearing a finish line — to convey some 3,461 acres of U.S. Bureau of Reclamation property abutting the North Platte River to the Wyoming Game and Fish...
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Public records ombudsman: Wyoming could benefit from uniform fee structure,...
A strong sense of civic duty made a career in law enforcement appealing to Darlena Potter. Yet, after studying administration of justice as a University of Wyoming undergrad, she decided she was too...
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Sunshine Week: A Q&A with the attorney working for Wyoming’s free press
When Chris Wages talks about the free press, government transparency and the role of local media, the Wyoming attorney brings multiple perspectives to bear. He was once a part owner of a small...
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Grizzlies killed record high number of cattle in Wyoming, 2024 data shows
Every year is a conflict-prone year for the scores of cattle and grizzly bears that mix annually on Union Pass, but Coke Landers was especially glad to put 2024 behind him. The run-ins started...
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