4+ day, 15+ min ago   (284+ words) Agriculture is routinely invoked as one of the foundations of Wyoming’s economy, particularly when decisions involve public lands and access, water or wildlife. But if an industry is truly an economic “backbone,” the data should support that assertion. It should…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (550+ words) The American Civil Liberties Union will appeal its immigration case against Laramie County Sheriff Brian Kozak to the Wyoming Supreme Court after a judge dismissed the matter last month. The timing of the appeal is still up in the air,…...

5+ day, 11+ min ago   (974+ words) LARAMIE—When Wyoming recently joined the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health — a nationwide initiative to support best practices that make births safer and improve maternal health outcomes — it was the 50th state to do so. However late to the party…...

5+ day, 15+ min ago   (1332+ words) Driving with a broken taillight should not result in a man losing his job, then being secretly taken away from his family and deported to a country where his life is in danger. But it did end that way for…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1029+ words) Darci Quiver pulled out her cellphone and pressed record as the law enforcement officer approached her vehicle. He pulled out a packet of papers. “Anybody can put in the paperwork. This is just to go to court,” he explained. The…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1699+ words) CASPER—Natrona County commissioners took no action Tuesday after developers of the proposed Prometheus Hyperscale data center asked them to consider an industrial park zoning designation, which would speed up build time by exempting the $500 million project from state industrial…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (588+ words) Improved staffing across Wyoming correctional facilities allowed the Wyoming Department of Corrections to bring inmates back from a Mississippi prison, where they were sent in 2023, agency Director Dan Shannon said. The corrections department announced last month that it had returned…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (642+ words) Ríhanna Kelver, a transgender Laramie woman who drew a gun on a man in what she has said was an act of self-defense, isn’t immune from prosecution under Wyoming’s stand your ground laws, a judge ruled Monday. Kelver, who is…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1704+ words) A civil rights lawsuit filed Monday alleges law enforcement used excessive force and showed deliberate indifference to the medical needs of Kenneth Durrah, a prisoner who died naked and strapped to a restraint chair in the Campbell County jail in…...