2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (560+ words) Wyoming wildlife managers plan to reduce how many wolves can be hunted by 50% following a canine distemper outbreak that has cut the state's wolf numbers to the lowest level in two decades. A 22-wolf cap is the fewest number of…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (676+ words) A flare up of a disease that's especially lethal to wolf pups took a toll on Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park wolf numbers in 2025, reducing biologists' counts to a level last seen when wolves were still reestablishing following the species…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (684+ words) Summit Carbon Solutions, the Iowa company that had targeted North Dakota as the destination of its carbon dioxide pipeline, announced Wednesday that an updated route will instead travel to a storage site in Wyoming. Summit's announcement indicated its pipeline would…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (364+ words) The Bureau of Land Management announced this week it had granted expedited permission to build a pipeline on New Mexico public lands to fuel the controversial Project Jupiter data center, but environmental groups say state and federal regulators will slow…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (277+ words) The boost is narrow, however. The National Drought Mitigation Center cautioned that broader spring and summer water-supply concerns remain across the West, where seasonably dry weather has returned outside of northern California and recent precipitation has done little to alter…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (464+ words) A Winter Weather Advisory remains in effect for Cheyenne County through 3 p. m. Wednesday as a late-season storm drops a band of rain and snow across the eastern plains. After the system clears, Cheyenne Wells turns dry and seasonably mild Thursday and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (438+ words) Colorado Governor Jared Polis announced a memorandum of understanding with Wyoming on Monday, May 4, to coordinate state permitting for carbon storage projects that may cross the two states" shared border. The agreement, signed by the Colorado Energy and Carbon Management…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (224+ words) Conditions remain a sharp contrast to one year ago. In late April 2025, 39 percent of Colorado was drought-free and no portion of the state was classified in exceptional drought. A year of precipitation shortfalls and above-normal temperatures has since driven most…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (285+ words) The sustained lack of moisture is reflected in the rapid expansion of exceptional drought across the state's major river headwaters. Counties that include the state's highest and most snow-dependent terrain " Eagle, Summit, Grand, Jackson, Routt and Pitkin " are now entirely…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (174+ words) One year ago, conditions were markedly different. In mid-April 2025, about 44 percent of Colorado was drought-free, and no portion of the state was classified in extreme or exceptional drought. Statewide, the percentage of Colorado in extreme drought (D3) or worse jumped from…...