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GovernmentFour takeaways from the Wyoming governor’s debate
Republican Eric Barlow, Democrat Kenneth Casner and Constitution Party candidate Rebecca Bextel squared off Wednesday in the one televised debate scheduled ahead of November’s general election, when Wyoming voters will select their next gov…
BusinessWyoming Business Council CEO resigns amid agency reform efforts
Wyoming Business Council CEO Josh Dorrell resigned Wednesday after the agency’s board of directors met in executive session.
EducationJudge denies Wyoming Boys’ School request to bar term ‘solitary confinement’ in upcoming trial
Ahead of a November trial to determine if the Wyoming Boys’ School violated a former resident’s constitutional rights, the facility asked a judge to bar the term “solitary confinement” as a “catch-all term” to describe boys’ extended time a…
EnvironmentIs gravel a mineral? The answer could decide the Casper Mountain mining controversy.
The Wyoming Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case concerning counties’ authority to regulate gravel and sand pit operations on some 3.4 million acres of state trust lands scattered throughout the state.
EducationTrump launched a federal school choice program. How will it affect Wyoming?
Wyoming took another step toward expanding school choice this summer when Gov. Mark Gordon opted into President Donald Trump’s new federal tax-credit scholarships.
CultureAutumn song
Twenty-four years ago this week, the warm dry fall at the home place vanished in the night. Three inches of fresh snow blanketed the country.
GovernmentWhat should Wyoming’s ‘ABC’ voters do?
In August, Chuck Gray won the Republican nomination for Congress with only 25% of the vote. Roughly three of every four Wyoming Republicans who voted chose someone else, and not one of the eight Republicans he defeated has publicly endorsed…
EnvironmentJudge halts sweeping plan to move Forest Service headquarters west, including state office in Cheyenne
The Trump administration’s plan for the most sweeping U.S. Forest Service reorganization in history has been at least temporarily halted by a federal judge who ruled such changes require congressional approval.
EducationUniversity of Wyoming grad student accused of poisoning colleague has been arrested fleeing to China
CHEYENNE—A Wyoming microbiology graduate student from China has been arrested on accusations she poisoned the tea of a colleague who had pending patents and with whom she didn’t get along, then tried to flee the country after police questio…
CultureThe mountain elite: Wyoming mountains forged A.J. Cargill into a stylish ski champion
When she was a kid, A.J. Cargill’s parents up and moved from the Midwest to the chic ski resort of Sun Valley, Idaho, setting her and two siblings afloat in a style-conscious culture the youths yearned to join.