States’ divisions on abortion widen after Roe overturned
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A group of Tennessee Republicans began this year’s legislative…
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…
Continue ReadingCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Feds: Woman who set fire at Wyoming abortion clinic opposes abortion, said she was anxious about facility…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A woman was arrested on charges of setting fire to a building in Wyoming that was being…
Continue ReadingCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Authorities make arrest in 2022 fire set at building slated to become Wyoming’s only full-service abortion…
Continue ReadingCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Judge temporarily blocks Wyoming abortion ban, making the procedure legal again while court challenge…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Abortion will again be legal in Wyoming — at least for now — after a judge on Wednesday…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Abortion-rights supporters filed an amended lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block Wyoming’s…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana couple faces charges of murder and tampering with evidence in the 2019…
Continue ReadingJACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Abortion-rights supporters file amended lawsuit seeking to block Wyoming’s ban on medication…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming has pushed to the front of state efforts to prohibit the most common type of abortion…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota is moving to fortify its status as a refuge for patients from restrictive…
Continue ReadingCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming has become the 19th state to ban transgender athletes from playing on girls or women’s sports teams after the…
Continue ReadingDENVER (AP) — A Colorado man suspected of poisoning his wife has been arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder. The 45-year-old Aurora man was…
Continue ReadingMARBLE, Colo. (AP) — A skier was killed in an avalanche on Sunday outside a Colorado ski resort boundary, just a day after authorities recovered…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon has signed into law the nation’s first explicit ban on abortion pills since they…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press States that rely on water from the over-tapped Colorado River want the U.S. Supreme Court to block a lawsuit from…
Continue ReadingBRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The Southern Nevada Water Authority on Thursday voted to accept a $2.4 million grant from the U.S.…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — When officials in Wyoming faced public pressure to allow a citizen recount…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — Dozens of bison from a mountain park outside Denver were transferred…
Continue ReadingGREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay has hired Wyoming assistant Sundance Wicks to take over its men’s basketball program. Athletic director Josh…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Biden administration’s approval of a massive oil development in…
Continue ReadingBy GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada lawmakers are considering a remarkable shift in allowing the…
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawmakers are looking to strengthen the state’s role as a safe…
Continue ReadingBy AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After years of refusing to expand Medicaid benefits for new moms, Republican officials in more…
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — Desi-Rae Young scored 28 points and pulled down 17 rebounds to lead No. 21 UNLV to its 22nd win and second-straight NCAA…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jaelen House had 28 points in New Mexico’s 87-76 win against Wyoming on Wednesday night in an…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — California cannot ban the importation and sale of crocodile and alligator products, a federal…
Continue ReadingBy BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Jaedon LeDee scored 21 points and Adam Seiko 14 for the No. 18 San Diego State Aztecs, who…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — U.S. officials will work to restore more large bison herds to Native American lands under a Friday…
Continue ReadingBy SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tom Brundy, an alfalfa grower in California’s Imperial Valley, thinks farmers reliant…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Switching political parties to be able to choose the primary in which a voter wants to cast a…
Continue ReadingBy SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Jillian Balow, Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s superintendent of public…
Continue ReadingLARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Jeremiah Oden scored 28 points, Hunter Maldonado just missed a triple-double and Wyoming beat Nevada 80-71 on Monday night.…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — John Tonje scored 25 points as Colorado State beat Wyoming 84-71 on Friday night. Tonje added…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN ANTCZAK, AMY TAXIN and ED WHITE Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Heavy snow and rain pounded California and other parts of the West on…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Transgender youth in Tennessee would be banned from receiving…
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH, DREW CALLISTER and JIM SALTER Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Winter storms sowed more chaos across the U.S. on Thursday,…
Continue ReadingBy AMANCAI BIRABEN and JIM SALTER Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A brutal winter storm closed interstate highways from Arizona to Wyoming…
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force’s review of cancers among its nuclear missile corps will include all personnel…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Steven Ashworth had 19 points and Utah State pulled away in the second half for a 65-55 win against…
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A massive winter storm that will push across the northern U.S. in coming days could dump several feet of snow at higher…
Continue ReadingDENVER (AP) — A man pulled over for a traffic stop along a northern Colorado interstate was killed when he ran from deputies and was hit by a…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Jake Heidbreder scored 22 points as Air Force beat Wyoming 75-69 on Friday. Heidbreder shot 8 for 10…
Continue ReadingBy BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Oil-dependent Alaska has long sought ways to fatten its coffers and move away from the…
Continue ReadingALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Hunter Maldonado’s 20 points helped Wyoming defeat New Mexico 70-56 on Tuesday. Maldonado added 10 rebounds and five…
Continue ReadingTEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Conrad Dobler, one of the NFL’s top offensive linemen and fiercest players in the 1970s, has died. He was 72. The Arizona…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Tyson Degenhart scored 20 points, Naje Smith added a double-double and Boise State beat Wyoming 75-63 on Saturday night.…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Don’t feed the bears! Wildlife biologists and forest rangers have preached the mantra for…
Continue ReadingLARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Elijah Harkless’ 33 points led UNLV over Wyoming 69-59 on Wednesday. Harkless shot 8 of 12 from the floor, made five…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and SAM METZ Associated Press HARLOWTON, Mont. (AP) — Near the banks of Montana’s Musselshell River, cattle rancher Michael…
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Leo Thompson received plenty of love, food and shelter from the non-Native American family…
Continue ReadingBy TOM DAVIES, CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republicans in some heavily conservative states won their…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Omari Moore scored 29 points as San Jose State beat Wyoming 84-64 on Saturday night. Moore added…
Continue ReadingDENVER (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday threw out the convictions of a doctor accused of overprescribing powerful pain medication and…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration took a first step Friday toward ending federal protections for…
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — US takes first step toward lifting protections for grizzly bears in some Western states, which would open door to…
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES and AMANCAI BIRABEN Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The conversation between a state senator and a legislative aide started…
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man was charged with attempted murder and attempted rape Thursday following a violent assault on two teenagers in…
Continue ReadingLARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Hunter Thompson scored 18 points, Jeremiah Oden added a double-double and Wyoming rolled to an 85-62 victory over Fresno State…
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN RONAYNE and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California released a plan Tuesday detailing how Western states…
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — When officers pulled over a van for speeding outside of Arches National Park in August 2021,…
Continue ReadingBy FELICIA FONSECA and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Six Western states that rely on water from the Colorado River have…
Continue ReadingBy SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Exposed to the beating sun and hot dry air, more than 10% of the water carried by the…
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN RONAYNE and FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Competing priorities, outsized demands and the federal…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Federal Reserve Board has denied a Wyoming cryptocurrency bank’s application for…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming could join a handful of states that have begun paying homeowners and businesses less…
Continue ReadingSINCLAIR, Wyoming (AP) — Five young women killed in a head-on crash on a Wyoming highway were Arkansas high school students and graduates, school…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Elijah Harkless had 28 points in UNLV’s 86-72 victory against Wyoming on Tuesday. Harkless added…
Continue ReadingSINCLAIR, Wyo. (AP) — A series of crashes caused by a wrong-way driver on Interstate 80 killed five people and seriously injured others in…
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nine military officers who had worked decades ago at a nuclear missile base in Montana have been…
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH and HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — From beach cities to snow-covered streets, abortion…
Continue ReadingLARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Noah Reynolds scored 17 points to lead Wyoming and secured the win with a free throw with two seconds remaining as the Cowboys…
Continue ReadingCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Beau Becker scored 23 points as Air Force beat Wyoming 82-74 on Tuesday night. Becker shot 9 for 16, including 5 for…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Chibuzo Agbo had 18 points in Boise State’s 85-68 victory against Wyoming on Saturday. Agbo also…
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico state lawmakers will consider public incentives aimed at attracting investments in…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Booming oil and gas revenue has put Wyoming back among states with big budget surpluses but…
Continue ReadingLOGAN, Utah (AP) — Taylor Funk’s 22 points helped Utah State defeat Wyoming 83-63 on Tuesday. Funk also added five rebounds for the Aggies…
Continue ReadingBy LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press GLASGOW, W.Va. (AP) — Bill Gates is looking to West Virginia as he plans for the next phase of his effort to…
Continue ReadingLARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Lamont Butler’s 23 points helped San Diego State defeat Wyoming 80-75 on Saturday night. Butler shot 8 for 15, including…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas water experts are sounding an alarm decades in the making: Farmers and ranchers in the…
Continue ReadingBy FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A Native American tribe that has one of the largest and most secure rights to Colorado…
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ore. (AP) — For the first time ever, Oregon had the highest voter turnout rate in the nation for last November’s elections. Former Oregon…
Continue ReadingYELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A missing man whose foot was found floating in a Yellowstone hot pool had no suicide note in his car —…
Continue ReadingCOOKE CITY, Mont. (AP) — Two people were killed in New Year’s Eve avalanches in Montana and Colorado after heavy snow blanketed much of the…
Continue ReadingLARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Jamal Mashburn Jr. scored 20 points, including the game-winning free throws with 18 seconds remaining, to lead No. 22 New…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Taxes will fall and minimum wages rise for residents in numerous states as a variety of new…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Taxes will fall and minimum wages rise for residents in numerous states as a variety of new…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Stagnant for long stretches of the second half, Ohio’s offense got one last chance…
Continue ReadingSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s six public universities plan to offer in-state tuition rates to students from Wisconsin and Illinois by…
Continue ReadingWEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. (AP) — Thirteen bison were killed or had to be euthanized after their herd was struck by a semi-truck involved in an…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona Bowl: Ohio (9-4, Mid-American) vs. Wyoming (7-5, Mountain West), Dec. 30, 4:30 p.m. Eastern…
Continue ReadingFRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Jermarl Baker Jr., scored 20 points as Fresno State beat Wyoming 58-53 in a Mountain West Conference opener on Wednesday.…
Continue ReadingBy ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Cara Berg Raunick watched with bafflement as Indiana’s Republican…
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — Logan Johnson scored 28 points as Saint Mary’s beat Wyoming 66-54 on Wednesday night at the Jerry Colangelo Classic. Johnson…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Supreme Court has declined to weigh in on questions involving a lawsuit over the…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Software engineer Jae Yang got a lot of questions from friends when he moved from Silicon…
Continue ReadingBy FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — One of the largest coal producers in the United States has sued a major freight…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Daron Holmes scored 24 points as Dayton beat Wyoming 66-49 on Saturday night at the Legends of Basketball…
Continue ReadingMOORCROFT, Wyo. (AP) — Two men who drove their all-terrain vehicle onto a frozen reservoir in northeastern Wyoming to rescue another man who fell…
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