1+ week, 2+ day ago   (305+ words) With minor party candidates certified to appear on the Nov. 3 general election ballot as of Thursday, several races for some of Wyoming’s top offices are a bit more crowded. Independent candidates get on the ballot through a petition process that…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (889+ words) Reading Time: 5 minutes, 0 seconds Election officials in Wyoming tried something new this year: hand counting ballots. The hand count was an extra audit of a portion of ballots cast in the primary. It was meant to offer a point of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (464+ words) Wyoming State Forester Kelly Norris provided an update on Wyoming’s wildfire season during the Joint Appropriations Committee meeting on Thursday. She reiterated that Wyoming is experiencing one of the “busiest and most complex wildfire seasons in recent years,” which she…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (851+ words) Wyoming’s primary election delivered some surprises. Wyoming Public Radio’s state government and politics reporter, Jordan Uplinger, checked in with University of Wyoming professor Ryan Williamson, who studies electoral politics and institutions. They started with his biggest takeaway from the results....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (136+ words) A little more than 150 thousand Wyomingites voted in this week’s primary election. Of them, 132,705 of them cast votes for Republicans, while 13,263 went for Democrats. Nearly 4,400 voted non-partisan. Tuesday’s raw turnout numbers were second only to the 2022 midterms, the last time…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (143+ words) Reading Time: 2 minutes, 34 seconds Storm and thunder cleared throughout the day in Jackson Tuesday, where voters ousted two incumbents in one of the state’s few hotly contested local Democratic races for the Board of Teton County Commissioners. Jenny Fitzgerald: My…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (604+ words) At a Cheyenne bar where Americans for Prosperity was hosting a primary election night watch party, Kale watched results roll in. Kale, who declined to give his last name, is a young Wyomingite who said a Freedom Caucus defeat was…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (210+ words) Reading Time: 1 minute, 7 seconds Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray squeaked by in winning the Republican ticket for the U.S. House race in November. He’s set to face off against former state Sen. Lisa Kinney, who won the Democratic bid in…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (560+ words) Tuesday is voting day across Wyoming, and voters everywhere are making decisions about which candidates to back, what issues are most pressing and how to get to the polls. Wyoming Public Radio’s Melodie Edwards spoke with four likely voters at…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (271+ words) The public is invited to join the League of Women Voters of Laramie for a showing of the film “Iron Jawed Angels” at 4 pm, Thursday August 20 at the Albany County Public Library. This 2004 film is an American historical drama focusing…...