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Blog 18 days ago
'Dire' financial situation: Game and Fish interim director warns of future severe budget concerns
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 department. The b
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Blog 18 days ago
Mental evaluation sought for Wyoming journalist accused of forgery
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. The attorney asked a judge in Platte County to order that
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Blog 19 days ago
A flood of Chinese soda ash has Wyoming's industry swimming in troubled waters
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. In addition to diminishing demand - primarily for glass der
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Blog 19 days ago
Let's thank the politician who helped drive the Freedom Caucus out of power
I know it's way too early for a Thanksgiving column. Halloween is still more than a month away. Opinion But if I wait until the holiday, the person I want most to express my thanks to will have likely dropped out of the headlines after losing in the Nov.
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Blog 19 days ago
Malnutrition killed Wyoming pronghorn in peak summer as vegetation withered during record heat, severe drought
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. An old female, PH143, had keeled over in the willows along the receded shoreline of Big Sa
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Blog 19 days ago
Out-of-state companies have swallowed up Campbell County housing rentals, records show
GILLETTE-Gillette renters' money is going to owners likely outside Wyoming, according to a Gillette News Record analysis of property data. Long gone are the days of private and local landlords, as parcel data shows that private real estate investment comp
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Blog 20 days ago
When can Wyoming children be treated like adults in court?
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. Though Seiser was a minor at the time, the teen was charged in adult court, me
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Blog 20 days ago
Your democracy needs you
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. Opinion As board members for the Equali
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Blog 20 days ago
1,289-year-old whitebark pine, oldest on record, found in Grand Teton National Park
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. Friedman, a doctoral student in
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Blog 20 days ago
Grand Teton National Ballpark? Visitors call it a field of nightmares.
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. The Trump administration and Major League Baseball are scouting the park for a site to play
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