Wyoming News

The Bureau of Land Management plans to offer more than 150 parcels of land for oil and gas leasing in Wyoming in the spring.

The Research & Planning section of the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services is reporting that total unemployment insurance covered payroll increased by 4.6% in second quarter 2011.

Sex offenders wouldn't be able to live near Wyoming child care facilities under a proposal from a Bridger Valley lawmaker.

A rancher who had 98 horses seized by Wyoming Livestock Board officials and law enforcement last May will go on trial this week on animal cruelty charges.

A mountain lion and her three offspring that were trapped in the Jackson area have been released in an undisclosed location between Lander and Rawlins.

A report backed by a children's advocacy foundation says Wyoming improved in 4 of 12 indicators of child well-being from 2000 to 2009.

Allow us to re-introduce you to the octogenarian congressman who's currently perched atop the catbird seat in the oversight hearings every fracker in America is watching with bated breath.

Alyssa Alt digs her car out of the snow in Denver on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, after a snow storm dumped 10 inches of snow overnight.

Blayne "Bud" Streeper from Fort Nelson, British Columbia, is the winner of the 2012 International Pedigree Stage Stop Sled Dog Race with an overall time of 19:52.42. This is the fourth first-place IPSSSDR win for Streeper, who also won the race in 2004, 2010 and 2011.

A -A University of Wyoming head football coachA Dave ChristensenA confirmed on Friday that freshman quarterbackA Brett SmithA did undergo surgery on Thursday of this week.

A in the nation in student performance and progress in its 2011 annual report. It also graded teacher quality and policies with an overall grade of D-. But Teton County school board member Cherie Hawley says the report is not indicative of what's happening in Teton County schools, or other districts throughout the state.

Group formed to encourage Wyomingites to buy local Expanding the mission of "Think Wyoming First," formed last year to give in-state companies priority on major construction projects, on Thursday, "307 First" was launched to promote consumers to buy locally produced goods and to hire local companies to provide services.

A youth citizenship and leadership program for 11th grade high school girls sponsored by The American Legion Auxiliary-Wyoming Girls State-is now taking applications in Lander.The 2012 Wyoming Girls State Session will be held Northwest College in Powell.

The National Weather Service said snow was falling at 2 inches an hour on the Eastern Plains, producing some blizzard conditions.

A winter storm developing in Colorado on Groundhog Day is expected to bring heavy snow to southeastern Wyoming.

EVERYONE here seems to know the story of the house on the hill. The rambling log structure, with its undulating staircases, umpteen balconies and fun-house warren of half-finished rooms, has for nearly 30 years loomed over the Buffalo Bill Cody Scenic Byway, inspiring stories.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in no way contends that a draft report on groundwater pollution in Wyoming could apply to hydraulic fracturing in any other part of the U.S., an EPA official told a U.S. House subcommittee.

The state's Economic Analysis Division said Tuesday that gas at Wyoming's Opal Hub is selling at $2.75 per thousand cubic feet.

Contracts totaling nearly $22.4 million for 12 highway projects around the state were awarded by the Wyoming Transportation Commission during its January meeting in Cheyenne, including two near Lander and three projects awarded to Lander firms.Donald B. Murphy Contractors of Federal Way, Wash., submitted the low bid of $5.8 million for ... (more)

State workplace safety officials say they are withholding citations for an oil facility explosion that killed three workers out of concern that the media might report on the citations before the companies get a chance to see them.