Install
Wyoming's independent, reader-funded news source. In-depth reporting covering politics, energy, natural resources, wildlife, healthcare and more.
- 846articles · 365d
- 18+ hour agolatest article
- Oct 10, 2025earliest in window
- 96%with images
- 340avg words
- Politics 422
- Politics2 372
- News 337
- Law & Government 148
- Crime, Law & Justice 109
- Crime & Law 108
- Environment 99
- Science & Nature 75
Please confirm you are human
This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.
A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.
News
Industrial development boom drives Laramie County’s new workforce housing requirement
18+ hour, 54+ min ago (1032+ words) CHEYENNE—Laramie County is moving toward a new standard for industrial developments that requires construction workers be housed outside the local housing market, whether it be through accommodations on the project site or through another arrangement approved by county officials....
Yellowstone wolves struggle to produce pups, again, but don’t blame disease this time
18+ hour, 22+ min ago (1276+ words) Yellowstone National Park’s wolf packs — arguably the world’s most visible and famous wild wolves — had another poor year of producing puppies and keeping the youngsters alive, according to a Park Service biologist. Now, 2026 is shaping up to be another dismal…...
Yellowstone’s historic fort gets a facelift
1+ day, 54+ min ago (369+ words) Yellowstone National Park’s extensive assets of buildings, roads and trails are worth an estimated $8.5 billion, which brings massive maintenance responsibilities. Currently, park crews are working to rehabilitate the park’s oldest functioning structures. A two-year, $25 million project is underway to stabilize and…...
Railroad tie stacks raise stink in Laramie’s West Side neighborhood
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (1734+ words) LARAMIE—In the eight years since Kylene Claar and her family moved into a house with a brown picket fence on this city’s historic West Side, they’ve watched the Greenbelt, a river park adjacent to their block, come alive. “It’s…...
Fremont County data center part of larger $66B plan
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (952+ words) While little official information about the data center taking shape northeast of Riverton has been aired, a big price tag was revealed on Tuesday: The data center under construction near the unincorporated community of Lost Cabin is phase one of…...
Sublette County deals surprise blow to billionaire developer Joe Ricketts’ resort plans
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (754+ words) Sublette County elected officials unexpectedly delivered a major blow Tuesday to billionaire TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts’ yearslong ambitions to transform the Upper Hoback River area into a destination upscale resort. In a 3-2 vote, commissioners eliminated a 2021 zoning change that carved…...
Task force ditches Wyoming-run health insurance plan idea, mulls unorthodox service models
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (1047+ words) A legislative task force studying health insurance affordability in Wyoming has declined to advance a proposal to create a state-run catastrophic health insurance plan, citing the unlikelihood that it would move the needle on premium costs. Following further study, it…...
Malnutrition killed Wyoming pronghorn in peak summer as vegetation withered during record heat, severe drought
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1210+ words) On a Tuesday in early August, Brandon Scurlock received the second notification in as many days that one of the 50 GPS-collared pronghorn he’s been monitoring died. An old female, PH143, had keeled over in the willows along the receded shoreline of…...
Teton County opposes Grand Teton pathway project revived by Trump administration
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (898+ words) Teton County officials are unhappy with the Trump administration’s reversal of a 2016 management plan directive that paves the way for a pathway in a wildlife-rich Grand Teton National Park corridor. The board of county commissioners approved a letter Monday to…...
Black-footed ferrets aren’t thriving anywhere, but in Wyoming’s Shirley Basin they’re faring OK and even dispersing
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (1724+ words) SHIRLEY BASIN—From hundreds of yards away, biologist Daniel Pinneo spotted the telltale green eyes of one of North America’s rarest mammals, before the night’s mission really began. His Wyoming Game and Fish Department counterparts were still near their trucks…...