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Ban on chasing, striking Wyoming’s wildlife with snowmobiles rejected, again,...
A continued push to end a brutal form of motorized over-snow hunting did not gain traction with Wyoming lawmakers studying bills ahead of the 2026 legislative session, despite a Sublette County...
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Legislative panel pursues bills to regulate Wyoming library books with sexual...
TORRINGTON—A Wyoming legislative committee decided Tuesday to draft bills to police books in libraries, taking steps down a constitutionally fraught path out of concern that literature dealing with...
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As scrutiny of judges grows, lawmakers weigh changes to Wyoming’s selection...
For her final official appearance before a legislative committee, Wyoming Supreme Court Chief Justice Kate Fox visited Torrington on May 19 prepared to defend the state’s judiciary system. Weeks...
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Amid gravel pit fight, Natrona County looks to limit heavy truck traffic in...
Natrona County commissioners advanced this week a new county-wide policy aimed at regulating heavy truck traffic on designated residential roads, including Coates Road, which would provide access to a...
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State board rejects renewal of contested gravel leases at base of Casper...
CHEYENNE —Prism Logistics suffered another blow Thursday to the company’s gravel mining plans near the base of Casper Mountain when the State Board of Land Commissioners voted not to renew six of the...
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Wyoming lawmakers step toward bill clarifying corner crossing’s legality
Corner-crossing public land users have had their legal access rights repeatedly affirmed, and on Friday, the sheriff of the county where it all started was asked if state statute changes could help...
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In Jackson Hole, people aren’t fortifying their garbage, luring bears and...
In the middle of the night last fall, Calico restaurant-area resident Hannah Navarro heard a bear just outside her window. The bruin had sniffed out Navarro’s trash and was wrestling with her...
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Wyoming Public Media backers urge congressional delegation to defend funding
After a judge on June 8 affirmed the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s independence, a funding fight with President Donald Trump is now beginning in the Senate, where $1.1 billion in broadcasting...
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Trump appointee, a Jackson Hole consultant, ID’d pitfalls of Wyoming managing...
Not unlike the current moment, roughly a decade ago a political push to do away with large swaths of federal lands in the West was gaining steam. Utah Republican U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz ran a bill...
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Politicians, experts try to keep up with gambling’s meteoric rise in Wyoming
On Tuesday afternoon, 13 horses started their run at a racetrack outside Valparaiso, Chile, hooves pounding the dirt on what in that hemisphere was a 52-degree winter day. Some 5,500 miles to the...
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Wyoming opposition intensifies against public land sell-off
Opposition to a Republican plan to sell millions of acres of federal public land in the West intensified over the weekend, with politicians, individuals and scores of businesses criticizing the budget...
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Will a new Wyoming law protect providers or limit abortions? It depends on...
The same group of abortion rights advocates whose legal challenges have stymied past attempts to stop or limit abortion in Wyoming is seeking to block part of another new law. That statute, which goes...
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Lee cuts scope of Senate public lands sell-off plan amid setbacks, public...
In the face of mounting bipartisan criticism, Utah Sen. Mike Lee has backed off from a plan to sell Forest Service land at the same time a congressional official concluded his proposal didn’t meet...
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Trump’s ag boss is cutting 3.3M ‘roadless’ acres from 9 national forests in...
The Trump administration is ending an environmental protection policy that opens up nearly 59 million acres of federal land in the United States — a Wyoming-sized expanse — to roadbuilding and timber...
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As Wyoming protests, public land sell-off ‘just getting started’
In the face of a backlash, Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee has revamped his public land sell-off measure to target only Bureau of Land Management holdings while also declaring, “we’re just getting...
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Public lands rally draws large, varied crowd to Wyoming statehouse
Though broad pushback already drove Utah Sen. Mike Lee to scale back his public lands sell-off proposal for the Republicans’ big budget bill, a large and boisterous crowd still gathered Thursday...
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Western public land sale axed from Senate budget bill
Utah Sen. Mike Lee withdrew his land-sale provision from the Senate reconciliation budget bill Saturday evening. “I was unable to secure clear, enforceable safeguards to guarantee that these lands...
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Concealed carry allowed in many Wyoming state government buildings starting...
Starting Tuesday, Wyomingites will be allowed to carry guns into state government buildings, with some exceptions including courthouses and law enforcement facilities. On June 17, the Wyoming State...
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Judge blocks abortion restrictions in Wyoming’s new off-label medication law
A Wyoming judge on Monday blocked the state from enforcing abortion restrictions included in a new law that protects doctors who prescribe off-label medications. In his nine-page ruling, District...
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Protecting the ‘Path of the Pronghorn’ draws support, but must again overcome...
When it comes to designating Wyoming’s first migration corridor in over six years, retired sage grouse biologist Tom Christiansen puts it bluntly. “If not now, when?” Christiansen wrote in a comment...
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