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Wyoming’s Nesvik touts ‘America first,’ deregulation during his congressional...
WASHINGTON—Making a case that he’s the right man to lead the federal agency that manages the nation’s wildlife, Brian Nesvik declared a childhood love for the furred, feathered and finned among us,...
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Feds plan to remove all wild horses from 2.1M acres of Wyoming’s...
The Bureau of Land Management’s contentious plans to remove all free-roaming horses from vast reaches of southwest Wyoming’s “checkerboard” region could begin as soon as this summer, although a legal...
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LGBTQ+ advocates look to courts amid new bathroom, sports bans in Wyoming
After Wyoming lawmakers passed a slate of bills to restrict the rights of transgender people during the 2025 legislative session, LGBTQ+ advocates hope to use the legal system to defeat the new laws....
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Trump tariffs expected to hit Wyoming consumers, small businesses
Bakery owner Ben Ellis spent more than two years researching the ideal machine to mix and separate 400 pounds of dough before ordering heavy-duty equipment in November from the Czech Republic. “This...
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Scientists find 13 bottlenecks on Path of the Pronghorn, name sprawl and...
It’s spring: time for migratory pronghorn to leave the Green River Basin for their more verdant summer habitat to the north, but not without encountering “bottlenecks” along the way. The definition...
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Barrasso, Lummis vote to allow selling federal land to fund Trump budget
In a battle over taxes and access to Wyoming’s wide open spaces, U.S. Sens. John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis voted against a measure that would have blocked the government from selling public land to...
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Casper abortion clinic remains in limbo as judge mulls temporary halt to new...
The five-week pause on abortions at Wellspring Health Access will continue for now. A judge heard arguments Tuesday on whether to temporarily halt enforcement of new state regulations that forced the...
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Trump and Musk’s DOGE ‘functionally destroying’ historic Yellowstone grizzly...
A dismayed Chris Servheen is raising the alarm about what’s become of federal scientists who have kept watch over the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s grizzly bear population for the last 55 years....
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Shock of Trump tariffs has Wyoming businesses worried
With spring comes wedding season, when Cara Rank begins to rent table settings for Jackson Hole occasions with hundreds of guests. She plans ahead, placing orders six to nine months in advance....
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Trump’s ag boss declares 113M-acre logging ‘emergency.’ Will it keep...
HULETT—Jim Neiman says that the best-case scenario for his family’s timber mill at the base of the Bear Lodge Mountains is that it doesn’t shutter. The Crook County sawmill in 2022 shrunk to one...
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Wyomingites dig new antler regs — they’re even shed hunting because of them,...
At the behest of state lawmakers, Wyoming in 2024 took unprecedented steps to regulate shed antler hunting — actions that have started a western trend. Specifically, the Equality State now requires...
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Pollution plagues largest development in Town of Jackson’s history
For as long as Jim Rooks has lived in Jackson Hole, the north end of town has always been eclectic. Over his many decades, an odd mix of government buildings, rafting company headquarters, and mom...
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Judge blocks new Wyoming abortion laws, clearing way for Casper clinic to...
A state judge Monday halted enforcement of Wyoming’s two new abortion laws, clearing the way for the state’s lone abortion clinic to resume offering those services after a nearly two-month pause. The...
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Legal fight over Gillette librarian’s firing expands as Wyoming lawmakers...
A former library official is pushing back against the political forces that ended her decades-long career in the Campbell County Public Library system, bringing her second of two federal lawsuits this...
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Animated elderly woman behind police incident at Hageman town hall in...
Following a March town hall in Wheatland, an elderly woman approached Rep. Harriet Hageman and spoke in an “aggressive manner” with her hands close to the representative’s face, a Wheatland Police...
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Leaked federal roadmap for public land called ‘industry wish list’
As the Department of the Interior develops a plan to “restore American prosperity” by exploiting Western natural resources, a Wyoming attorney who has steeled rural communities against federal...
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Judge: Rock Springs school didn’t violate parental rights in transgender...
Sweetwater County educators did not keep information from the parents of a Rock Springs high school student who asked to be called by a preferred name and pronouns, a federal judge ruled Monday. U.S....
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Despite reports, BLM’s Rock Springs plan lives on. But congressional...
As the Wyoming Legislature met in early February, a lawmaker from the state’s southwest corner announced to his fellow representatives that the Trump administration had thrown out the Bureau of Land...
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Tribes urge Trump to undo planned DOGE closure of Fish and Wildlife’s Lander...
FORT WASHAKIE—Art Lawson sometimes feels like he’s doing the work of five people in his job overseeing wildlife on the Wind River Indian Reservation, a Yellowstone-sized landscape that’s home to the...
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Wyoming’s Calvert, national broadcast chair, says NPR needs more perspectives
Wyoming’s Ruby Calvert, chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, challenged President Donald Trump’s characterization of federally funded public media as “trash,” “madness,” “biased,”...
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