2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1131+ words) No minor party candidate has ever won a statewide elected office in Wyoming. Voters have exclusively elected Republicans and Democrats to the state’s top positions for the last 136 years. Though third-party candidates have frequently qualified for the general election in…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (655+ words) A controversial gravel mining operation proposed on state land at the base of Casper Mountain remains in legal limbo after Wyoming’s top court heard oral arguments Wednesday regarding one of two cases before it. Under public pressure, the state board…...

3+ day, 19+ 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,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (709+ words) Fed up with a slow-moving response to skyrocketing demand for electricity, industrial groups have loosely aligned with independent power producers and economic development shops to demand traditional utilities loosen their grip on monopolized service territories. The groups — backed by Wyoming…...

1+ week, 4+ 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…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1003+ words) With much fanfare and at the risk of violating state law, the Wyoming Republican Party broke with decades of tradition and endorsed candidates in last week’s primary election instead of remaining neutral. It picked the losing candidates in all four…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1242+ words) Even though the 7.1-mile Moose-Wilson Road represents a sliver of the 310,000-acre Grand Teton National Park, its fate has fueled years of debate. And when the National Park Service recently amended a 10-year-old park management plan to allow for the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1167+ words) The U.S. Forest Service in July began a 30-day public comment period on its plan to review a rare-earth element mining project in northeast Wyoming — the only opportunity for the public to weigh in on the federal process that is being…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (992+ words) Joe and Nancy Rankin’s ranch, just north of Douglas, has been in the family for 80 years. As Joe Rankin manages the ranch, he keeps track of any oil drilling underneath their land. But, due to a controversial federal proposal, his…...