Editorial coverage from the Wyoming USA Wire newsroom.
POWELL—The Wyoming Game and Fish Department budget has jumped by its highest amount in years and the interim director is calling budget concerns “dire” as inflation, especially in transportation costs, dramatically increases costs to the de…
The criminal cases against a former Wyoming journalist accused of perjury and forging documents should be suspended while she undergoes a mental evaluation, her attorney wrote in new court filings.
After decades of quietly chugging along as the state’s largest global export commodity, reaping an annual $1.3 billion, Wyoming’s trona mining and soda ash industry is navigating troubled waters.
I know it’s way too early for a Thanksgiving column. Halloween is still more than a month away.
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.
GILLETTE—Gillette renters’ money is going to owners likely outside Wyoming, according to a Gillette News Record analysis of property data.
A Campbell County court sentenced 16-year-old Michael Frank Seiser to at least 20 years in prison in 2007 for his involvement in murders orchestrated by Kent Proffit, an adult.
JACKSON—When Jared Friedman took a core sample of an incredibly gnarled, spindly and not-very-tall whitebark pine in Paintbrush Canyon, it did not occur to him that the tree might be ancient. It was less than 30 feet tall.
Fall is finally in the air across Wyoming. Along with turning leaves and cooler temperatures come yard signs, social media ads and other electioneering activities as we head into the 2026 general election on Nov. 3.
MOOSE, WYOMING—The news shot around Grand Teton National Park’s Jenny Lake on Sunday like the crack of a well-hit baseball echoing off the walls of Cascade Canyon.
EVANSTON—Ken Roberts’ willingness to take phone calls from random numbers doesn’t always yield pleasant exchanges. That’s certainly been the case as of late for the longtime Wyoming Game and Fish commissioner, who’s nearing the end of his t…
JACKSON—When Feride Bardakci called her roommate from immigration custody in Casper, the 26-year-old restaurant worker tried to make a joke.