Today's Wyoming sunrise was captured by Mike Palmer in Harmony, Wyoming. Mike writes, "Photo taken from my front yard on 1/17/2024. The wagon in the photo was my grandfather's." [ENLARGE]
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Snow possible in areas of western, southwest and northwest Wyoming, but sunny in most other areas on Saturday. Warmer with highs mostly in the 30s and 40s and lows generally in the teens and 20s. [READ]
Reader photo: Sun dog at sunset in Sundance, Wyoming, on Jan 19, 2024. Credit: Dana McInerney
Albany County paid $1.2 million to the family of Robbie Ramirez, who was shot in the back and killed by a deputy in 2018, according to a lawsuit settlement released publicly on Friday. [READ MORE]
Gov. Mark Gordon on Friday selected Cheyenne attorney Robert Jarosh for the Wyoming Supreme Court. He'll fill the seat being vacated with the retirement of Justice Keith Kautz. [READ MORE]
Austin Broderson, a 19-year-old bareback rider and sophomore at Casper College, is recovering after enduring what many rodeo insiders are calling the worst wreck they’ve ever seen at the National Western Stock Show in Denver on Monday. [READ MORE]
Snow days may be a thing of the past for Wyoming schools as 75% of Wyoming’s school districts now participate in temporary virtual education days. It allows school districts to forgo calling snow days and hold classes virtually instead. [READ MORE]
Uranium prices have exploded by 165% over the last year, and 15% just in the last week, which has caused a new rush for Wyoming Uranium miners to cash in. New uranium mines are opening up and expanding. [READ MORE]
If the Federal Reserve drops interest rates this year, as strong signals show it will, it could bring some homebuyers back to Wyoming’s real estate market, but it may not solve the state’s puzzle — low inventory and high prices. [READ MORE]
In rejecting new federal funds from the Biden administration, Wyoming's education chief Megan Degenfelder said an expansion of food stamp options amounts to a weaponization of "summer school lunch programs to justify a new welfare program." [READ MORE]
The Gillette Realtor who uncovered an alleged scheme where his former boss, Tami Hinson, forged his signature to illegally collect commissions has been slapped with a protection order for his efforts. “The guilty always think it’s crazy when the just seek justice,” he said. [READ MORE]
The keeper of Wyoming’s birth certificates is warning people to steer clear of websites that act like a middleman for people seeking vital records, then lift personal information along the way. [READ MORE]
A Greybull man charged with selling fentanyl-laced pills that led to the overdose death of a Cody man was bound over to district court Thursday on new charges of manslaughter and conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance. [READ MORE]
Remarks made by former head of Wyoming Catholic College and now president of the Heritage Foundation on Thursday went viral after he blasted "elites" at the Global Economic Forum in Davos. He called their mission "laughable" and said they are part of the problem. [READ MORE]
Nearly a year after feeding them was banned in the city, Casper seems to have made little inroads into curbing the throngs of wild turkeys that invade the city this time of year. [READ MORE]
Ag Columnist Dennis Sun writes, "A recent survey measured factors influencing consumer beef product purchasing decisions found the lowest attribute – by a sizable margin – was having low-carbon beef, defined as beef produced with 10 percent lower greenhouse gas emissions." [READ MORE]
Senate President Ogden Driskill and House Speaker Albert Sommers write, "As the leaders of our chambers, we have made responsible residential property tax relief and reform our number one non-budget priority." [READ MORE]
Lander’s resident elk herd seems to have settled in, and in some cases, they are getting closer to houses. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is letting hunters shoot some of them to keep the numbers down. [READ MORE]
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