Real Estate
Yellowstone’s historic fort gets a facelift
Yellowstone National Park’s extensive assets of buildings, roads and trails are worth an estimated $8.5 billion, which brings massive maintenance responsibilities.
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Editorial coverage from the Wyoming USA Wire newsroom.
GovernmentPublic land advocates: Be careful who you vote for!
In the summer of 2025, the federal budget reconciliation bill included a provision to sell millions of acres of public land for low-income housing. After intense nationwide protest, the provision was removed from the bill.
CultureThe mountain elite: Wyoming’s Amanda MacLeod falls for actors as a Hollywood double
Amanda MacLeod has fallen across silver screens throughout the country while working as a Hollywood stunt double, using skills she learned from skiing and dancing while growing up in Wyoming.
TechnologyWyoming lawmakers take steps to further restrict online gaming
Facing another record-breaking year for money wagered at Wyoming gaming establishments, lawmakers are mulling new measures to regulate the industry.
EducationReading with a friend
In the past several years there has been a lot of conflict over the scope and nature of books that can appropriately be provided to adults and young people in Wyoming’s public and school libraries.
HealthTask force ditches Wyoming-run health insurance plan idea, mulls unorthodox service models
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.
GovernmentSublette County deals surprise blow to billionaire developer Joe Ricketts’ resort plans
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.
TechnologyFremont County data center part of larger $66B plan
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…
EducationThe mountain elite: Jackson Hole’s Catherine Cullinane hung with the Stonemasters, pioneered diabetes education
Catherine Cullinane had climbed with the Stonemasters in Yosemite Valley, a loose-knit group of hard men that pushed the limits of rock climbing, and was working in the Tetons for Exum Mountain Guides when she got the news.
Real EstateProposition 1 is not self-reliance
This November, the people of Wyoming will decide whether or not to reduce residential property taxes by 50%.
EnvironmentTweak to Endangered Species Act could allow widespread development
Every ecosystem has a “keystone” species whose presence or absence affects everything else in the landscape. The legal system works in a similar way.
GovernmentTeton County opposes Grand Teton pathway project revived by Trump administration
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.