Fall kills climber and strands partner on Wyoming’s Devils Tower
A climber fell to his death while rappelling down Devils Tower, leaving his partner stranded without a rope on the face of the Wyoming geological…
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Continue ReadingWyoming Republican primary voters opted Tuesday to stick with long-serving U.S. Sen. John Barrasso and U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, the first-term…
Continue ReadingStanding at the edge of a bluff overlooking the Lamar River in Yellowstone National Park, TJ Ammond stared through binoculars at hundreds of buffalo…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The federal government will forgive loans for thousands of Colorado students who attended a…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Wildlife workers on Tuesday halted their efforts to capture a grizzly bear that killed a…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Montana (AP) — Wildlife workers put out bear traps for a third night Monday as they try to capture a…
Continue ReadingWEST YELLOWSTONE, Montana (AP) — A woman was found dead in Montana on Saturday after coming into contact with a grizzly bear on a trail west of…
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — More than 30 people were injured when a deck collapsed at a Montana country club during a weekend golf tournament, police…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos contamination must pay the…
Continue ReadingSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A mountain climber and a cliff diver have died in separate incidents at national recreation spots in the West, officials…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press LAUREL, Mont. (AP) — Tar balls have shown up 100 miles (161 kilometers) downstream of a railroad bridge collapse…
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona woman who suffered fractured vertebrae and collapsed lungs after being gored by a bison in Yellowstone National Park has…
Continue ReadingCOEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Five members of the white nationalist hate group Patriot Front were convicted Thursday of misdemeanor charges of…
Continue ReadingCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Abortion opponent who says she torched a Wyoming clinic due to anxiety and nightmares pleads guilty to…
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — An abortion opponent pleaded guilty to a federal arson charge Thursday after telling…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nearly a dozen wild horses have died in the first 10 days of a big mustang roundup in Nevada,…
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A bison severely injured a Minnesota woman on Saturday in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, the…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Taco Bell rang up a win Tuesday in its quest to make “Taco Tuesday” free of trademark…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific will renew its push for one-person train crews later this summer when the railroad…
Continue ReadingYELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A bison gored and significantly injured an Arizona woman in Yellowstone National Park. The attack happened…
Continue ReadingBy MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The northern lights could put on a show this week — though the audience will be much smaller…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A prisoner suspected of stabbing Larry Nassar at a federal penitentiary…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A college student who authorities say admitted setting fire to a building slated to become…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press A helicopter pilot faces up to $10,000 in fines and a year in jail for making an illegal lakeside landing in Grand…
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Globs of asphalt binder that spilled into Montana’s Yellowstone River during a…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN, TERRY CHEA, CALEB DIEHL and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press DOWNIEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Using chainsaws, heavy machinery and…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN, TERRY CHEA, CALEB DIEHL and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press DOWNIEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Using chainsaws, heavy machinery and…
Continue ReadingHELENA, Mont. (AP) — Work is underway to clean up rail cars carrying hazardous materials that fell into the Yellowstone River in southern Montana…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press CAMPBELL COUNTY, Wyo. (AP) — A tornado that ripped through the country’s largest coal mining site in northeast Wyoming…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL PHILLIS and SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — On some parts of the Navajo Nation, where roughly a third of the people lack…
Continue ReadingCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Judge blocks Wyoming’s first-in-the-nation abortion pill ban days before it was set to take…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Abortion pills will remain legal in Wyoming for now, after a judge ruled Thursday that the…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A national sorority has defended allowing a transgender woman into its University of Wyoming…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and JOHN FLESHER Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration proposed bringing back rules to protect…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) — Portrait photographer Anne Brande shoots graduation and wedding engagement photos at scenic…
Continue ReadingBy BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer San Diego State University has sent a letter to the Mountain West seeking information related to a potential exit…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Republican governors are pushing back against a proposal by the Biden administration to put conservation on equal footing with…
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A public process started Thursday to reshape the way Colorado River water is distributed, with…
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada has taken a dramatic, but not immediate, step toward limiting the amount of Colorado River…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — James Watt, the Reagan administration’s sharp-tongued, pro-development interior secretary…
Continue ReadingDENVER (AP) — Former Colorado state senator Mike Johnston claimed victory as opponent Kelly Brough conceded Tuesday night in a runoff election to…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Utah-based bus company says the neighboring state of Nevada has “declared war” on its…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A college student who authorities say admitted setting fire to a building slated to become…
Continue ReadingMAMMOTH, Wyo. (AP) — A man from Hawaii pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge alleging he picked up a bison calf in Yellowstone National Park,…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Water conflicts are nothing new to the arid West, where myriad users long have vied for their…
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ Associated Press Former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney implored new college graduates to not compromise when it comes to the truth, excoriating her…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The mother of the man who killed Gabby Petito told her son in an undated letter that she…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. government can keep using chemical retardant dropped from aircraft to fight…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — An appeals court is sending a plan to allow continued cattle grazing in a vast, mountainous…
Continue ReadingCARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — The remains of five more Native American children who died at a notorious government-run boarding school in Pennsylvania over…
Continue ReadingYELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A man who picked up a bison calf in Yellowstone National Park caused it to be shunned by its herd, prompting…
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER, AMY TAXIN AND SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Facing the future with a dwindling Colorado River supply and…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte has signed legislation giving Native American families…
Continue ReadingBy SUMAN NAISHADHAM and KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Arizona, Nevada and California said Monday they’re willing to cut back on…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press ROLLING HILLS, Wyo. (AP) — Criminal cases brought by U.S. wildlife officials for killing or…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press ROLLING HILLS, Wyo. (AP) — Criminal cases brought by U.S. wildlife officials for killing or…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Declaring a mission to liberate “Taco Tuesday” for all, Taco Bell is asking U.S.…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming hunter faces up to a year in jail and a $10,000 fine if convicted of killing a…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Biden administration officials on Monday sought to dispel worries they want to exclude oil…
Continue ReadingALBANY, Wyo. (AP) — The pilot escaped unharmed from a small single-engine plane crash Sunday in Albany County, Wyoming Highway Patrol Troopers…
Continue ReadingBy BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Nearly half of the U.S. West has emerged from drought this spring, but the welcome wet…
Continue ReadingBy TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America North Dakota’s Republican Gov. Doug Burgum has signed a bill into law to protect tribal…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Lower-income new mothers could gain a full year of Medicaid health-care coverage in…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The popular television western “Yellowstone” with Kevin Costner will end this fall and be…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A new abortion clinic in deeply conservative Wyoming is stirring strong emotions, with the…
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Democrats in the South Carolina Senate turned debate about a bill to set guidelines for…
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A review of a Montana nuclear missile base where an unusual number of troops have been diagnosed…
Continue ReadingBRECKENRIDGE, Colo. (AP) — A backcountry skier was buried and killed by an avalanche near Colorado’s Breckenridge ski resort, authorities…
Continue ReadingSPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Gonzaga’s offseason roster rebuild continued Friday with the addition of former Creighton point guard Ryan Nembhard and…
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press A fund controlled by a Swiss billionaire who has steered tens of millions of dollars to liberal causes also…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A Swiss auction house that sold a composite Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton for over $5 million this week said Friday that the new owner,…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming’s first full-service abortion clinic in years defiantly opened Thursday nearly one…
Continue ReadingCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming’s first full-service abortion clinic in years opens after arson attack and amid legal…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration has identified more than 175,000 square miles (453,000 square…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER and BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press LYONS, Colo. (AP) — Garrett Cammans and his brothers sometimes don’t talk about their…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Former Rep. Liz Cheney has a memoir and a “warning” coming out this fall. In “Oath and Honor,” she will write about her…
Continue ReadingBy KAY DERVISHI and YESICA BALDERRAMA of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy The share of Americans who volunteer their time to…
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Nearly 300 Tyrannosaurus rex bones that were dug up from three sites in the United States…
Continue ReadingBy THALIA BEATY Associated Press Every day, Americans donate their time, skills and energy to their communities by volunteering with nonprofit…
Continue ReadingBy THALIA BEATY and GLENN GAMBOA Associated Press CASA of Lexington has tried just about everything to find volunteers to serve as advocates for…
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A trio of health care bills enshrining access in Colorado to…
Continue ReadingBy SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration floated two ideas this week to reduce water usage from the…
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Dozens of scientists from universities and environmental groups…
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Biden administration released an environmental analysis Tuesday…
Continue ReadingBy BRITTANY PETERSON ASSOCIATED PRESS CUCHARA, Colorado (AP) — It’s been the longest wait, their whole lives, in fact. But Race Lessar and Landen…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Seven women who have sued to challenge the admission of a transgender woman to their sorority…
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER and TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A Native American tribe in Arizona reached a deal Thursday with the U.S. government…
Continue ReadingWHEATLAND, Wyo. (AP) — A bus carrying contract farm workers from Texas to Washington state crashed on a snowy Wyoming road early Wednesday, sending…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A lawsuit that Louisiana and other Republican-leaning states filed…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is making $450 million available for solar farms and…
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Berger Action Fund is a nondescript name for a group with a rather specific purpose:…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A bill that would criminalize helping minors obtain an abortion without parental consent won…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The nationwide battle over the places where transgender people may belong has flared at the…
Continue ReadingHUNDRED, W.Va. (AP) — Officials in a West Virginia town are trying to determine whether the chief of a volunteer fire department can keep his job…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Oil companies offered a combined $264 million for drilling rights in federal…
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two survivors of a 2015 racist massacre that killed nine of their friends at a Charleston…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — She posted on social media about competing in a bike race, losing her pet hedgehog and…
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A group of Tennessee Republicans began this year’s legislative…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A woman accused of setting fire last year to a Wyoming abortion clinic…
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