More questions than answers at Colorado River water meetings
By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Key questions resurfaced Thursday at a conference of Colorado River water administrators and users…
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Key questions resurfaced Thursday at a conference of Colorado River water administrators and users…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The average profile of a missing child in Hawaii: 15 years old, female, from the island…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Whitebark pine trees can live more than 1,000 years, but in just two decades more than a…
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Living with less water in the U.S. Southwest is the focus this week for state and federal water…
Continue ReadingLARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Noah Reynolds scored 20 points off of the bench to lead Wyoming past Louisiana Tech 92-65 on Saturday night. Reynolds added…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Center fielder Brandon Nimmo is staying with the free-spending New York Mets, agreeing to a…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press FORT BELKNAP AGENCY, Mont. (AP) — Native species such as swift foxes and black-footed ferrets disappeared from…
Continue ReadingBy AARON BEARD AP Sports Writer The racial gap in graduation rates for this year’s bowl teams in college football has declined again, this time to…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Wyoming (7-5, Mountain West) vs. Ohio (9-4, MAC) Dec. 30, 4:30 p.m. ET, Barstool LOCATION: Tucson, Arizona. TOP PLAYERS Wyoming:…
Continue ReadingLARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Rayshon Harrison’s 21 points helped Grand Canyon defeat Wyoming 66-58 on Saturday night. Harrison shot 6 for 16 (3 for 9…
Continue ReadingSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Brandin Podziemski scored 19 points and Carlos Stewart added six points in the overtime as Santa Clara knocked off Wyoming…
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday lifted a temporary restraining order that limited wolf hunting and…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Interior Department on Monday proposed rules to limit methane leaks from oil and gas…
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana judge said he would decide Tuesday whether to continue temporary limits he…
Continue ReadingFRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Jordan Mims scored touchdowns on runs of 4, 1 and 2 yards and Fresno State beat Wyoming 30-0 Friday night in the regular…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A coalition of conservative-leaning states is making a last-ditch effort to keep in place a…
Continue ReadingST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands (AP) — Jaeden Zackery scored 16 points and Boston College took third place at the Paradise Jam, defeating Wyoming 59-48…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced Monday she is pardoning an estimated 45,000 people convicted of simple possession…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK, S.D. (AP) — Perched atop a fence at Badlands National Park, Troy Heinert peered from…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK, S.D. (AP) — Perched atop a fence at Badlands National Park, Troy Heinert peered from…
Continue ReadingCHARLOTTE AMALIE, Virgin Islands (AP) — Tucker DeVries had 29 points in Drake’s 61-56 win over Wyoming on Sunday night. DeVries was 10 of 14…
Continue ReadingLARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Taylen Green threw for a touchdown and ran for another, George Holani had 132 yards rushing on 20 carries and Boise State beat…
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Trailed by a lengthy, flowing veil, President Joe Biden’s granddaughter Naomi Biden…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands (AP) — Hunter Maldonado scored 28 points, 19 in the second half, and Wyoming beat Howard 78-71…
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A group of 30 agencies that supply water to homes and businesses throughout…
Continue ReadingYELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A foot found floating in a Yellowstone National Park hot pool last summer belonged to a 70-year-old man from…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana judge has temporarily restricted wolf hunting and trapping near Yellowstone and…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Two Wyoming State Hospital patients died while staff at the mental health institution failed…
Continue ReadingLARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Christian Agnew had 15 points in SE Louisiana’s 76-72 victory over Wyoming on Sunday night. Agnew was 5 of 9 shooting,…
Continue ReadingFORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Jayden Clemons threw for a touchdown and ran for another score to help Wyoming beat Colorado State 14-13 Saturday.…
Continue ReadingCASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Facial hair enthusiasts claimed to have set a new world record for longest beard chain during an event in Wyoming on Friday,…
Continue ReadingCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The Mountain West hired Gloria Nevarez, who has been leading the West Coast Conference for the last five years, to…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Aaron Appelhans is among a rare few in Wyoming: A Democrat who won in Tuesday’s midterm…
Continue ReadingLARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Brendan Wenzel scored 20 points off of the bench to help lead Wyoming over Nicholls State 79-68 on Thursday. Wenzel was…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Republican Harriet Hageman has beaten a Native American activist to win Wyoming’s lone seat…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Harriet Hageman wins election to U.S. House in Wyoming’s at-large Congressional…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Republican Mark Gordon has won a second term as Wyoming’s governor, beating a little-known…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Mark Gordon wins reelection for governor in…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Following a first term fraught with a double dose of crises — the COVID-19 pandemic and…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The race to choose Wyoming’s next U.S. representative has received a lot less attention…
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — Former U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman will be the next general manager of the Arizona entity that distributes…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The general election in Wyoming is shaping up to be a quiet affair after the Republican U.S. House primary in August, when…
Continue ReadingCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A southeastern Wyoming sheriff’s deputy was shot and a man was killed during an exchange of gunfire at a residence in…
Continue ReadingBy JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press/Report for America EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republican Rep. Liz Cheney visited Michigan on Tuesday to…
Continue ReadingBy TAMMY WEBBER and MARTHA IRVINE Associated Press SANTA CLARA PUEBLO, NM (AP) — This was a land of dense forests. A creek cascading through ponds…
Continue ReadingBy TAMMY WEBBER and MARTHA IRVINE Associated Press SANTA CLARA PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) — Raymond Naranjo sings for rain, his voice rising and falling as…
Continue ReadingHONOLULU (AP) — Dawaiian McNeely scored the go-ahead touchdown on a 61-yard run early in the fourth quarter and Wyoming held off Hawaii 27-20 on…
Continue ReadingHELENA, Mont. (AP) — Two conservation groups have filed a lawsuit against the state of Montana and its wildlife management agency alleging it…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials believe that three wolves shot and killed just over the state’s border…
Continue ReadingBy FELICIA FONSECA and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The Interior Department announced Friday that it will consider…
Continue ReadingKALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — A Montana woman was cited for animal cruelty Thursday for shooting and skinning a 6-month-old husky and posting pictures of…
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press Republican Rep. Liz Cheney on Thursday endorsed and plans to campaign for Rep. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, the…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER AND KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — California communities exposed to hazardous dust by a drying lake bed…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The federal government is suing a small Idaho town near Grand Teton National Park for dumping…
Continue ReadingPINEDALE, Wyo. (AP) — A hunter accidentally shot himself in the leg while trying to fight off a grizzly bear attack in west-central Wyoming — the…
Continue ReadingCASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Titus Swen ran for 180 yards and three touchdowns on 27 carries and D.Q. James added 10 carries for 120 yards to help Wyoming…
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A college wrestler from a small Wyoming school helped his teammate survive a grizzly mauling over the weekend by trying to…
Continue ReadingHELENA, Mont. (AP) — A federal administrative law judge has denied a request to block permits that expand bison grazing in north-central Montana…
Continue ReadingCODY, Wyo. (AP) — A grizzly bear attacked and injured two men who apparently surprised the bruin while they were recreating in the Shoshone…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press MISSION, S.D. (AP) — After her mother died when Rosalie Whirlwind Soldier was just four years old, she was put…
Continue ReadingCASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A former Wyoming man who climbed through a broken window at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection has been…
Continue ReadingMAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — The northeast entrance to Yellowstone National Park will open to all traffic Saturday, even as work continues to…
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — An environmental group filed a lawsuit Tuesday against U.S. Forest Service officials that alleges they polluted waterways…
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A U.S. magistrate judge has declared unconstitutional two Montana laws that sought to prevent the closure of a coal-fired…
Continue ReadingSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A jury in Utah found two animal rights activists not guilty on charges of burglary and theft after they allegedly took two…
Continue ReadingGOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — One person was killed and four people seriously injured after a man intentionally drove a pickup truck through a crowd…
Continue ReadingALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Andrew Peasley threw two touchdown passes to Treyton Welch and Cameron Stone settled things for Wyoming when he returned…
Continue ReadingMAMMOTH SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park is postponing the opening of a renovated road at its north entrance as it continues to…
Continue ReadingBy BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney on Wednesday said the Republican candidates for Arizona governor and…
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California water agencies that rely on the parched Colorado River said Wednesday…
Continue ReadingBy JAMES ANDERSON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced an expansion Wednesday of a National Park Service…
Continue ReadingLARAMIE, Wyo, (AP) — Chevan Cordeiro passed for 314 yards and a touchdown and ran for two scores to propel San Jose State to a 33-16 victory over…
Continue ReadingBRIDGER, Mont. (AP) — An evacuation warning is in place for residents near the small town of Bridger in south-central Montana after a train…
Continue ReadingCASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming doubled its wind-power generating capacity from 2019 to 2021 and is looking to add more wind farms in the next five…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday proposed a new permitting program for wind energy…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Children’s Hospital is seeing “unprecedented demand” in its emergency department, resulting in longer wait times and…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge has struck down the third attempt by the Iowa Legislature to stop animal…
Continue ReadingKALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — Montana authorities said Tuesday they were investigating the shooting of a 6-month-old dog by a woman who skinned the…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In-person voting for the midterm elections opened Friday in…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Wyoming (3-1) at No. 19 BYU (2-1), Saturday, 10:15 p.m. ET (ESPN2) Line: BYU by 21 1/2, according to FanDuel Sportsbook…
Continue ReadingBy JULIE WATSON and AMY TAXIN Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — When nearly 80,000 Afghans arrived in the United States, refugee resettlement…
Continue ReadingBy BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — To guide fishing trips for a year or two, that’s what brought Terry Gunn to the red…
Continue ReadingLARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Titus Swen ran for 102 yards and a late fourth-quarter touchdown to give Wyoming a 17-14 victory over Air Force in a Mountain…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press FLAMING GORGE RESERVOIR, Wyo. (AP) — Tony Valdez wasn’t worried about being left high and dry when he bought…
Continue ReadingBy FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press PEACH SPRINGS, Ariz. (AP) — Garnett Querta slips on his work gloves as he shifts the big rig he’s driving…
Continue ReadingBy GILLIAN FLACCUS and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Biden administration said Wednesday it has approved ambitious plans…
Continue ReadingBy PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer Craig Thompson, the only commissioner the Mountain West Conference has known, is stepping down after nearly 24 years…
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS OUTCALT and BRITTANY PETERSON The Colorado Sun and The Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The intensifying crisis facing the Colorado River…
Continue ReadingLARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Titus Swen ran for three touchdowns, John Hoyland kicked four field goals and Wyoming pulled away from Northern Colorado 33-10…
Continue ReadingBy ERIC YOUNG The Billings Gazette LODGE GRASS, Mont. (AP) — Luella Brien initially wanted to be a school teacher, but never thought she’d be one…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday ordered the Biden administration to reinstate a drilling lease…
Continue ReadingBy FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Most people in Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico know each other. So when a…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. government has joined a ski resort and others that have quit using a racist term for…
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Nearly 1 in 3 Republican candidates for statewide offices that play a role in overseeing, certifying or…
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Triple-digit temperatures broke records across parts of the Northern Plains on Wednesday, as forecasters warned strong winds…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration reached a legal settlement Tuesday that requires the government…
Continue ReadingRENO, Nev. (AP) — Bentlee Sanders intercepted two passes, returned one for a touchdown and forced a fumble in Nevada’s 38-14 win over Texas…
Continue ReadingDENVER (AP) — Colorado health authorities issued an advisory on Monday for unhealthy levels of ozone pollution in the Front Range urban corridor…
Continue ReadingPROVO, Utah (AP) — Two men fell to their deaths and a woman sustained a serious head injury during three hiking accidents over the holiday weekend…
Continue ReadingPROVO, Utah (AP) — Protesters including Brigham Young University students yelled homophobic slurs and taunted LGBTQ students and their supporters…
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