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• Active coronavirus cases increase by 419 on Wednesday

  The number of active coronavirus cases in Wyoming increased by 419 on Wednesday.

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• Active coronavirus cases fall by more than 300 over weekend

  The number of active coronavirus cases in Wyoming fell by more than 300 over the weekend, according to Wyoming Department of Health figures.

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• ‘Good medicine:’ Buffalo delivered to home on the reservation

  On a clear October morning on the Wind River Indian Reservation, Eastern Shoshone tribal member Jason Baldes stood in front of a semi trailer parked on an expanse of patchy dirt surrounded by agricultural lands, snow-crusted outcroppings and pale blue sky.

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• Dems, GOP in pitched battle over special COVID legislative session

  Wyoming lawmakers are deeply divided along party lines over the need for, and structure of, a forthcoming special legislative session called to fight proposed federal COVID-19 vaccination and/or testing rules.

  2 days ago

• As closure nears, miners grapple with next steps

  CASPER — With four weeks left before Wyoming’s last underground coal mine shutters, the employee transition is well underway.

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• Out-of-state contributions boost Cheney campaign

  CASPER — An unprecedented amount of out-of-state money is pouring into Rep. Liz Cheney’s reelection effort, as she campaigns in one of the nation’s highest-profile congressional races.

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• Businesses to state lawmakers: No more mandates

  CHEYENNE — “No more regulations or mandates on Cheyenne businesses” was the clear message from the Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce on Friday as state legislators gear up for a special session this week to discuss ways to fight federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

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• Wyoming sugar beet harvest strong despite delays

  WORLAND — Despite losing about 300 acres of sugar beets in the spring, Wyoming Sugar’s 2021 crop should push 32 tons per acre and finish above 19% in sugar content.

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• Ongoing testing program tracks UW COVID-19 spread

  LARAMIE — University of Wyoming students and faculty may experience a new kind of pop quiz this fall semester. A random 3% sample of on-campus UW students and employees is being tested each week for COVID-19 as part of the university’s COVID-19 response.

  5 days ago

• COVID-19 hospitalizations hit all-time high

  CASPER —Wyoming hospitals treated 249 COVID-19 patients on Thursday — the most at any point during the pandemic. At the height of last year’s surge in November, 247 people were hospitalized with the virus, while active cases neared 12,000 — roughly 2% of the state.

  5 days ago

• Record number of COVID patients in hospital; active cases at 3,547

  The number of Wyoming residents hospitalized for treatment of coronavirus on Thursday exceeded the peak seen in late November of 2020, according to state Health Department figures.

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• Simpson remembers Powell as patriot

  CODY — Former U.S. Sen. Al Simpson has many fond memories of the late U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, but none more prominent than the way he heard Democrat Robert Byrd, a 51-year senator from West Virginia, speak of Powell after he heard him give a speech.

  6 days ago

• Residents angry over end of public comments at commission meetings

  GILLETTE — The Campbell County Commission has suspended public comment at their meetings until further notice, but that didn’t keep people from speaking up and speaking out against the commissioners Tuesday.

  6 days ago

• Wyoming still most hesitant state for vaccination

  CASPER — Wyoming remains the most vaccine hesitant state in the nation, according to the latest numbers from U.S. Census Bureau polling. Wyoming children ages 12 to 17 now fall into that category as well.

  6 days ago

• Active coronavirus cases increase by 398

  The number of active coronavirus cases in Wyoming increased by almost 400 on Wednesday.

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• Active coronavirus cases increase by 398

  The number of active coronavirus cases in Wyoming increased by almost 400 on Wednesday.

  1 week ago

• Active coronavirus cases increase by 398

  The number of active coronavirus cases in Wyoming increased by almost 400 on Wednesday.

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• Land swap would create 38,000-acre public block in SE Wyo

  An Albany County land exchange proposed by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management would consolidate a 38,000-acre block of public land around the Mule Creek Ranch 50 miles southeast of Casper.

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• Oil prices may increase as Converse County rig count jumps to 10

  DOUGLAS — Is $80-plus a barrel the new normal for oil prices in the country right now? How about $100 per barrel by mid-2022?

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• Poll: Medicaid expansion popular

  CASPER —A new poll commissioned by four nonprofits shows significant support for Medicaid Expansion in Wyoming, a government health insurance assistance program for those who can’t afford insurance and aren’t offered it by their employer.

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• Active coronavirus cases fall by 61

  The number of active coronavirus cases in Wyoming declined by 61 on Tuesday.

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• Campbell County Commission not allowing public comment on library issues

  GILLETTE –- The Campbell County Commission will no longer be taking public comment relating to the Campbell County Public Library.

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• COVID spikes in state prisons

  CASPER — Cases of COVID-19 at Wyoming prison facilities have spiked to their highest total since the start of the pandemic.

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• Tribes shorted on federal funds due to joint-powers structure

  RIVERTON — The Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes have missed out on multiple federal funding opportunities because of the cooperative government structure imposed upon them by the federal government, state and tribal officials said this month.

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• Teton areas eyed as off-limits to help bighorn sheep population

  JACKSON —An interagency collective of biologists is recommending that 21,233 acres of high-quality winter habitat in the Teton Range be made off limits to humans to help an imperiled, declining herd of bighorn sheep stage a comeback.

  1 week ago

• Barrasso: ‘I’m pro-vaccine and anti-mandate’

  POWELL — While some Wyomingites and Republican officials have been hesitant to endorse the COVID-19 vaccines, U.S. Sen. John Barrasso has no such qualms.

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• Crook County treasurer resigns

  SUNDANCE — A civil trial that was to consider the removal of Mary Kuhl from her position as Crook County Treasurer will no longer be necessary because her letter of resignation was accepted by the county commissioners on Friday, Oct. 8.

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• Committee approves bill giving tribes access to grants

  RIVERTON — Lawmakers advanced a bill draft Friday that would make Wyoming Business Council grants as accessible to local tribes as they are to other governments.

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• Health officials encourage flu vaccination

  SHERIDAN — Following an unusually quiet 2020-21 flu season, a Wyoming Department of Health official says the need for flu shots remains important to help protect Wyoming residents from influenza as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

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• Legislators prepare bills fighting vaccine mandate

  CASPER — Some Wyoming lawmakers are already working on bills for the impending special session aimed at fighting the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for all companies with over 100 employees.

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• Active coronavirus cases increase by almost 400 Wednesday

  The number of active coronavirus cases in Wyoming increased by almost 400 on Wednesday, according to Wyoming Department of Health figures.

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• Petito strangled weeks before body was found, officials say

  JACKSON — Hundreds of thousands of people watched live and millions reacted as Teton County Coroner Dr. Brent Blue announced in a video press conference Tuesday that Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito, 22, died by strangulation.

  2 weeks ago

• Lawsuit alleges abuse of grade school student on bus

  RIVERTON — Facing claims that its bus driver and superintendent did not react properly to sexual abuse on a school bus, Fremont County School District 14 is being sued in federal court.

  2 weeks ago

• Wyoming hospitals report critical staffing shortages

  CASPER — Four Wyoming hospitals have recently utilized crisis standards of care, and more than half a dozen have sought information on those standards from the state health department, though no hospital was actively in crisis care as of Tuesday afternoon, health department spokesperson Kim Deti said via email.

  2 weeks ago

• Legislators recommend $72 million adjustment to schools

  CHEYENNE — The Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Education Interim Committee voted Monday to recommend adding an external cost adjustment worth more than $72 million to the state’s next K-12 education budget.

  2 weeks ago

• Active coronavirus cases fall by 65

  The number of active coronavirus cases in Wyoming declined Tuesday, falling by 65.

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• West puts ‘West Ranch’ up for sale

  CODY — Kanye West’s ranch is now for sale, symbolizing the likely final page in the hip-hop and fashion mogul’s saga in Cody.

  2 weeks ago

• Park County GOP declines to discipline member over email

  POWELL — Leaders of the Park County Republican Party have decided not to take action against a precinct committeeman for a vulgar email he sent to a state lawmaker last month.

  2 weeks ago

• Trooper chief says shooting is evidence of challenges for officers

  RIVERTON — The fatal exchange of gunfire between a Lander man and a state trooper on Sinks Canyon Road in June is just one among many signs of increasingly challenging times for law enforcement, according to a state police leader.

  2 weeks ago

• Cheney campaign sees second-highest fundraising quarter

  CASPER — Rep. Liz Cheney’s House reelection campaign enjoyed its second-biggest fundraising quarter ever this summer, a Cheney aide told the Star-Tribune. The donations came on the heels of Cheney’s all-time fundraising record, which occurred one quarter earlier.

  2 weeks ago

• West puts ‘West Ranch’ up for sale

  CODY — Kanye West’s ranch is now for sale, symbolizing the likely final page in the hip-hop and fashion mogul’s saga in Cody.

  2 weeks ago

• Trooper chief says shooting is evidence of challenges for officers

  RIVERTON — The fatal exchange of gunfire between a Lander man and a state trooper on Sinks Canyon Road in June is just one among many signs of increasingly challenging times for law enforcement, according to a state police leader.

  2 weeks ago

• Park County GOP declines to discipline member over email

  POWELL — Leaders of the Park County Republican Party have decided not to take action against a precinct committeeman for a vulgar email he sent to a state lawmaker last month.

  2 weeks ago

• Cheney campaign sees second-highest fundraising quarter

  CASPER — Rep. Liz Cheney’s House reelection campaign enjoyed its second-biggest fundraising quarter ever this summer, a Cheney aide told the Star-Tribune. The donations came on the heels of Cheney’s all-time fundraising record, which occurred one quarter earlier.

  2 weeks ago

• Active coronavirus cases fall by 481

  Wyoming’s active coronavirus case count fell by almost 500 over the weekend, according to state Department of Health figures.

  2 weeks ago

• College districts to start separation talks

  GILLETTE — At least Pax the Pronghorn is safe.

  2 weeks ago

• Man sues Cheyenne police over DUI testing

  CHEYENNE — A Cheyenne man is suing three Cheyenne police officers in federal court for allegedly violating his civil rights, after a municipal court judge ruled that one of the officers lied to a judge about the man’s refusal to take a blood alcohol level test.

  2 weeks ago

• More information needed on missing, murdered Indigenous people, leaders say

  CASPER — Recent data suggests Indigenous people continue to make up a disproportionate amount of Wyoming’s homicides and missing persons cases, but tribal members say even the best numbers are not telling the full story.

  2 weeks ago

• Standoff over mask requirement forces lockdown of school

  LARAMIE — Laramie High School was locked down for about 90 minutes Thursday morning during a showdown of wills between school administration and a 16-year-old junior who was arrested and removed from the school in handcuffs.

  2 weeks ago

• Vaccine mandate spurs hospital staffing worries

  SUNDANCE — Crook County Medical Services District is starting to see difficulties with staffing on the horizon. CEO Micki Lyons last week shared her concerns over the impending federal vaccine mandate with the board of trustees.

  2 weeks ago

• Sheridan school board rejects call for resignations over masks

  SHERIDAN — The Sheridan County School District 2 Board of Trustees responded to calls for board members to either voluntarily resign or be recalled, with board members unanimously approving a motion at their regular meeting Monday to reject petitions filed by a concerned group of citizens.

  2 weeks ago

• Mine reclamation at risk with coal fee lapse

  CASPER — Entangled in the congressional infrastructure debate, Wyoming’s biggest source of mine cleanup funding expired last week, raising questions about the future of reclamation.

  2 weeks ago

• DCI makes missing persons site easier to use

  CHEYENNE – The Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation now has an easier-to-find list of the state's missing persons.

  2 weeks ago

• Active coronavirus cases up by 92 on Tuesday

  The number of active coronavirus cases in Wyoming increased by 92 on Tuesday, according to Wyoming Health Department figures.

  3 weeks ago

• Man charged in Cheyenne woman’s murder ruled unfit for trial

  CODY — Another delay has occurred in the prosecution of a former Cody man accused of first degree murder as he was recently determined still mentally unfit to stand trial.

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• Dell Creek feedground open for one more year

  PINEDALE – Wyoming Game and Fish went to work last week to sort out the dilemma of the expiration of its Dell Creek winter elk feedground.

  3 weeks ago

• Uncertainty surrounds first lease sale since December

  CASPER — Scoping is over for the first oil and gas lease sale since December.

  3 weeks ago

• Active COVID cases at lowest number since August

  The reporting of more than 1,400 recoveries among coronavirus patients brought the number of active coronavirus cases to the lowest point seen in more than two months on Monday.

  3 weeks ago

• Gold, copper mine could mean millions for state

  CHEYENNE — A plan for a potential gold and copper mine near Cheyenne is steadily progressing, with a company putting forth vast community outreach efforts in recent months for a project that could bring hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars to Wyoming.

  3 weeks ago

• Tribes, enviros pan Wyo wolf kill policy in ESA petitions

  Several conservation organizations and numerous Native American tribes are citing Wyoming’s wolf predator zone — the roughly 85% of the state where wolves can be killed at any time by any means — as evidence of the need for renewed federal protection of the gray wolf.

  3 weeks ago

• Gillette library reviews book challenges during ‘Banned Book Week’

  GILLETTE — During a week designed to focus on books being challenged for being inappropriate, the staff at the Campbell County Public Library were spending some of their time responding to more than a dozen forms challenging books in the library’s collection.

  3 weeks ago

• Tourism boom fuels increase in taxable sales

  CASPER — After declines in five consecutive quarters, total taxable sales in the state expanded 12.1% in the second quarter of 2021 compared with 2020, largely due to the record-breaking boom in tourism at Wyoming’s national parks, according to a year-by-year comparison recently released by the Wyoming Department of Revenue.

  3 weeks ago

• Game and Fish tracking deer, pronghorn disease

  LARAMIE — The Wyoming Game and Fish Department announced earlier this month that it’s tracking outbreaks of epizootic hemorrhagic disease in white-tailed deer and pronghorn in eastern Wyoming.

  3 weeks ago

• Rude comments led to end of Jackson mask complaint site

  JACKSON — At first, submissions to the Teton County Health Department’s COVID-19 complaint form were helpful.

  3 weeks ago

• State says tribes not eligible for Business Council money

  RIVERTON — Wyoming’s Attorney General says local tribal entities are not eligible for grants and loans through the Wyoming Business Council Business Ready Community Program, WBC staff told the Wyoming Legislature’s Select Committee on Tribal Relations last month.

  3 weeks ago

• Campbell school vaccine incentive program criticized

  GILLETTE — Members of the public, including some teachers, came to tell the Campbell County School District’s board of trustees that they were not happy with the decision to offer district employees a $300 incentive for getting the COVID-19 vaccination.

  3 weeks ago

• Committee rejects proposed energy tax structure

  CASPER — Sen. Cale Case on Thursday proposed a new energy tax structure that would be shared across all electricity producers. But a motion to have a bill drafted for the plan failed by a vote of 4–9 in the Joint Revenue Committee.

  3 weeks ago

• Active COVID cases down by 39 on Thursday

  Wyoming’s total of active coronavirus cases dropped by 39 on Thursday to fall below 4,000.

  3 weeks ago

• Missing and murdered Indigenous people issue continues to plague Wyoming

  GREYBULL —With all the national coverage of her disappearance and the discovery of her body in Wyoming, the name of Gabby Petito is familiar to most.

  3 weeks ago

• Crook County Treasurer objects to new charges

  SUNDANCE — County Treasurer Mary Kuhl has objected to new charges filed against her in the civil case that seeks her removal from office, complaining in a response filed with District Court that it’s unfair to add new information so close to the date of her trial.

  3 weeks ago

• Determining the need for affordable housing in Saratoga

  SARATOGA — Is there a need for affordable housing in Saratoga?

  3 weeks ago

• Interest in parasitic medicine for cattle on the rise; health officials urge caution

  WORLAND — In one year, the number of calls to the regional poison control center doubled from the five previous years on complications related to ivermectin.

  3 weeks ago

• Active COVID cases up by 372

  The number of active coronavirus cases in Wyoming grew by 372 on Wednesday, according to Department of Health figures.

  4 weeks ago

• Rep. Sommers: Game and Fish won’t let 400 Dell Creek elk starve

  A Sublette County legislator is confident Game and Fish Department personnel “will work their butt[s] off” to ensure some 400 elk that depend on the Dell Creek Feedground don’t starve this winter. Rep. Albert Sommers (R-Pinedale) made his comments after U.S. District Judge Nancy Freudenthal ruled the wildlife agency has no permit to operate the feedground.

  4 weeks ago

• ‘Nightmare’ elk hunt turns heads on the levee

  JACKSON — If Bob Geringer had another shot, he says he wouldn’t have pulled the trigger.

  4 weeks ago

• Campbell County Commissioner says county should stop funding the library

  GILLETTE — A Campbell County Commissioner said he does not believe the Campbell County Public Library should receive funding from the county.

  4 weeks ago

• Converse County hospital battles nursing, employee shortages and surge in COVID-19 cases

  DOUGLAS —A longtime Memorial Hospital of Converse County nurse known for not ever complaining looked wearily at CEO Matt Dammeyer as he checked in with her Friday.

  4 weeks ago

• Active coronavirus cases fall for second day

  The number of active coronavirus cases in Wyoming declined for a second consecutive day Tuesday, falling by 45 from Monday.

  4 weeks ago

• Park County GOP official apologizes for letter, won’t resign

  POWELL — A Park County Republican Party official who sent an obscene message to a state lawmaker about vaccine mandates has apologized for language he used.

  4 weeks ago

• Sublette County elk feeding program in doubt

  PINEDALE — Feeding tons of hay to wild elk wintering around the Dell Creek feedground in Bondurant – to keep them out of privately owned haystacks – might not happen this year due to a Sept. 21 court decision and an apparent Wyoming Game and Fish oversight.

  4 weeks ago

• Gillette hospital sends mandate protest to Biden

  GILLETTE — In addition to airing out the uncertainty surrounding the upcoming federal vaccine mandates expected to affect Campbell County Health employees next month, hospital trustees decided to send a formal response to the man in charge himself.

  4 weeks ago

• BLM to round up half of Wyoming’s wild horses

  CASPER — The Bureau of Land Management will round up most wild horses in five herd management areas in southwestern Wyoming, beginning as soon as Oct. 7, the agency said Friday.

  4 weeks ago

• After dry summer, ag producers likely need extra feed for winter

  SHERIDAN — After a second hot, dry summer in a row, Wyoming’s cattle producers are concerned about heading into winter without enough feed.

  1 month ago

• More Wyoming residents eligible for boosters

  CASPER —A wider swath of Wyomingites is now eligible for Pfizer COVID-19 booster shots after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention authorized the additional inoculations.

  1 month ago

• Prosecutors express concern about State Bar charge against D.A. Manlove

  CHEYENNE — A group composed of the state’s county and district attorneys has raised concerns about the Wyoming State Bar’s formal charge against Laramie County District Attorney Leigh Anne Manlove.

  1 month ago

• To vaccinate or staff? Gillette hospital board fields public concerns over vaccine mandates

  GILLETTE — People came out in droves this week to lament the impending federal vaccine mandates that are expected to affect Campbell County Health employees next month and may lead to a significant loss of staff.

  1 month ago

• Active coronavirus case count grows to 4,403

  Wyoming’s total of active coronavirus cases increased by 108 on Thursday, according to Department of Health figures.

  1 month ago

• Legislative leaders ask Bray to step down

  CASPER – After a Republican official in Park County sent an email to Sen. Tara Nethercott telling her that if he was as “despicable a person as you, I would kill myself,” legislative leaders have spoken out and asked the official to resign.

  1 month ago

• Active COVID cases back over 4,000

  The number of active coronavirus cases in Wyoming climbed back over 4,000 on Wednesday as 475 new active cases were recorded.

  1 month ago

• Jackson-area parks avoid shutdown-related problems

  After the federal government partially shut down in December, Audra Warburton and other Double H Bar employees packed up brochures for the National Elk Refuge sleigh rides they offer, along with a couple of cash registers, and moved into a corner of the Home Ranch Welcome Center to register tours there.

  2 years ago

• UW official urges harsher penalties for booze sales to minors  

  Laramie should significantly increase the penalties leveled to businesses that sell alcohol to minors, University of Wyoming Vice President for Student Affairs Sean Blackburn suggested Monday.

  2 years ago