Game and Fish plans for deadly disease at elk feedgrounds
Chronic Wasting Disease would be ‘impossible’ to eradicate once it infects closely congregated herds in winter, a top wildlife health official says.
Main Content
Conservatives form Freedom Caucus to challenge House GOP
Group presents a united front to negotiate with House leadership, lawmakers involved said.
Winter with COVID poses next hurdles for Wyo tourism
Pandemic drove hordes of visitors to the state this summer as outdoor visitation exploded. Hosting winter travelers poses trickier challenges.
State unveils new grouse rules as feds again ease protections
Wyoming adopts habitat mitigation rules as Trump’s BLM, thwarted by courts, issues second stab at greater sage grouse plan rewrite.
Proposed budget cuts pound public services
Lawmakers must approve Gordon’s proposed reductions, which weaken Wyoming’s already thin social safety nets
Cuts threaten storied UW writing program
UW proposes eliminating its graduate program in creative writing. The program produces award-winning novelists but also writers working in Wyoming’s political, cultural and scientific institutions.
The Drake’s Take
Lawmakers are doing the old dodge-and-cut revenue dance
Opinion
By 8 CommentsRejecting state income tax lets Wyoming’s wealthiest residents off the hook at expense of most vulnerable citizens, Drake writes.
Dodson’s Doctrine
Wyoming’s crypto-blockchain giveaway
Opinion
By 6 CommentsWhen Wyoming passed legislation favorable to the budding industry, Dodson writes, the state forgot to require some benefits in return — like jobs or revenue.
Op-eds
Creative writing to be cut: UW counts on you not caring
Opinion
By 5 CommentsProfessor makes an appeal to Wyoming residents to help save the crucial arts program.
Clean water in Wyoming is too precious to pollute
Opinion
By 7 CommentsWyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission decision to permit Aethon Energy to pump millions of gallons of pollutants into an underground aquifer near Shoshoni is wrongheaded, guest columnist Maria Katherman writes.
Photo Friday
Grand glimpse
Cheyenne student Ethan Harris wins student photography prize with a winter image of a snowshoer in Grand Teton National Park.
Arts & Culture
Creative writing to be cut: UW counts on you not caring
Opinion
By 5 CommentsProfessor makes an appeal to Wyoming residents to help save the crucial arts program.
In Case You Missed It
Wyoming losing care options as COVID floods region’s hospitals
Surges in neighboring states are exacerbating the challenges of Wyoming’s response and further straining already scarce healthcare resources.
Week 36: The pandemic in Wyoming from Nov. 14-20
Most counties seek mask mandates as spike continues. Gov. Mark Gordon tightens restrictions on group gatherings but doesn’t issue mask order.
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Stanton heralds Park Service preservation of civil-rights sites
During a time of reckoning, the first Black National Park Service chief, who started his career in Wyoming, lauds park units that preserve historic American racial struggles.