LANDER -- A wildlife advocate says the Bureau of Land Management has failed to strictly enforce seasonal restrictions meant to protect sage grouse on the Pinedale Anticline gas field.
LANDER -- During the recent gas-drilling boom on the Pinedale Anticline, circumvention of wildlife safeguards has been the rule, while the protection of wild animals there has been the rare exception, conservationists say.
CHEYENNE -- The state's ability to pay its bills without borrowing money resulted in an uptick in Wyoming's credit rating from AA to AA plus, Treasurer Joe Meyer announced Thursday.
SHERIDAN -- With plans to initiate a new internship program while expanding transportation routes and increasing endowment funding, University of Wyoming President Tom Buchanan said UW trustees will ask the Legislature for more than $57 million in additional state funding.
CHEYENNE -- A western Wyoming rancher whose cattle herd tested positive for brucellosis has begun planning for a yearlong series of tests to clear his herd of its infected status, a state livestock official said Wednesday.
CHEYENNE -- Automated calls from U.S. Sen. John Barrasso's office do not appear to violate state law, the administrator of the state elections division said Wednesday.
BRIDGEPORT, Calif. -- Searchers found a plane door Wednesday while hunting in rugged mountains for missing adventurer Steve Fossett, but say it doesn't appear to be from the small plane he was flying when he disappeared last year.
The Wyoming Department of Transportation is closing U.S. Highway 26/287 near Togwotee Pass between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m., and 2:30 a.m. to 5:30 a.m. from Mondays through Fridays until further notice.
CODY -- Park County commissioners voted 3-2 Tuesday against a request from the city of Cody for $5,000 to help fund a site evaluation for a planned event center.
CHEYENNE -- Former U.S. Sen. Malcolm Wallop of Big Horn announced Thursday he is endorsing fellow rancher and businessman Mark Gordon in the Republican primary contest for the U.S. House.
LANDER -- When brucellosis showed up in a western Wyoming cattle herd in November 2003, the rancher slaughtered all of his breeding animals so the state wouldn't lose its coveted "brucellosis-free" market status.
A motor home crashed into a Buffalo strip mall at the intersection of Main and Fort streets on Thursday night. Fort Street was incorrectly identified in Friday's Star-Tribune. The Star-Tribune regrets the error.
YAKIMA, Wash. -- Washington state Fish and Wildlife biologists and wolf experts from Idaho captured what they believe are two wolves Friday in western Okanogan County, a development that could confirm the first wolf pack in Washington since the animals
A federal judge has restored endangered species protection for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies, putting a halt to legal wolf killing in Wyoming and derailing plans by it and two other states to hold public wolf hunts in the
HELENA, Mont. -- An Oregon man was recovering in a hospital Friday from wounds inflicted by a bear at a Montana campground a day earlier, and wildlife officials were trying to trap the animal they believe is a grizzly.
West Nile strikes first 2008 victim A Fremont County male is Wyoming's first 2008 human West Nile virus case, according to a release from the Wyoming Department of Health.
CHEYENNE -- Western heritage runs deep in this high plains city, and nothing typifies the local cowboy and ranching culture more than the 10-day Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration, which boasts the world's largest outdoor rodeo.
