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ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado woman died in a 900-foot fall while scaling a dangerous peak in the Rocky Mountains near Aspen, the Pitkin County…
Continue ReadingASPEN, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado woman died in a 900-foot fall while scaling a dangerous peak in the Rocky Mountains near Aspen, the Pitkin County…
Continue ReadingDENVER (AP) — A 29-year-old man who had been walking through traffic on a Denver-area interstate was shot and killed by police Monday after…
Continue ReadingLARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — John Hoyland kicked a 30-yard field goal in the second overtime to lift Wyoming over Tulsa 40-37 in a wild finish on Saturday.…
Continue ReadingGLASGOW, Mont. (AP) — Authorities warned of high wildfire danger across much of Montana Thursday and in coming days as temperatures were forecast…
Continue ReadingPLENTYWOOD, Mont. (AP) — A Colorado woman faces numerous felony charges after she was caught allegedly trying to cross the U.S.-Canada border…
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A ranching group and Republican state officials have asked a federal panel to reverse the Biden administration’s…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES, HOLLY RAMER and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — As the sun set in Wyoming, U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney described…
Continue ReadingDENVER (AP) — At least four people including two girls were wounded during a shooting early Sunday at a house in Denver that had been holding a…
Continue ReadingBRECKENRIDGE Colo. (AP) — A man has been killed in the mountains of central Colorado after crashing while speed flying, which involves descending…
Continue ReadingBy GAVIN GOOD Associated Press CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Chase Brown scored three touchdowns and rushed for 151 yards and Tommy DeVito completed 27 of…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — When Diane Swonk first attended the Federal Reserve’s annual economic…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a stark warning Friday about…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a stark message Friday: The…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — U.S. wildlife officials say there’s enough evidence a rare fish along the California-Nevada…
Continue ReadingBy JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Interior Department is giving 24 states a total of $560 million to start cleaning…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — When officials of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City sought a location…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — A half-hour drive or so from the resort where the high priests of…
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press KINGSTON, Mass. (AP) — Asa Peters marched into a thicket of Japanese knotweed in the woods of coastal…
Continue ReadingYELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Cleanup continued Monday after a fuel pup trailer rolled onto its side in Yellowstone National Park last…
Continue ReadingBy JAMES ANDERSON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Citing alarm toward the Republican Party’s widespread embrace of 2020 election conspiracies, a…
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that he didn’t take any classified…
Continue ReadingWEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. (AP) — A tanker truck hauling gasoline in Yellowstone National Park rolled over Friday and spilled an estimated 4,800…
Continue ReadingCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Jim Angell, a former Associated Press Wyoming correspondent and Wyoming Press Association executive director, died Wednesday.…
Continue ReadingJACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming’s attorney general’s office wants the state Supreme Court to take on a lower court lawsuit contesting a…
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON and THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Part of a human foot found in a shoe floating in a hot spring in…
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Hydroelectric turbines may stop turning. Las Vegas and Phoenix may be…
Continue ReadingYELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park officials are investigating after a park employee spotted part of a foot, in a…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. oil industry hit a legal roadblock in January when a judge…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Advocates for wild horses are accusing federal land managers of illegally approving plans for…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A judge’s order that forced the Biden administration to resume sales of oil…
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Liz Cheney’s resounding primary defeat marks the end of an era for the…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER and JAMES ANDERSON Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Gov. Mark Gordon has a clear path to reelection after winning the…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press CODY, Wyo. (AP) — The rush to build wind farms to combat climate change is colliding with preservation of one of…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press CODY, Wyo. (AP) — The rush to build wind farms to combat climate change is colliding with preservation of one of…
Continue ReadingBy SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Arizona and Nevada residents won’t face bans on watering their lawns or washing their…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Lynnette GreyBull wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Wyoming’s at-large Congressional…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Theresa Livingston wins Democratic nomination for governor in Wyoming primary…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Mark Gordon wins Republican nomination for governor in Wyoming primary…
Continue ReadingCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Rep. Liz Cheney, outspoken GOP critic of Donald Trump, loses Wyoming primary to rival backed by former…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Harriet Hageman wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in Wyoming’s at-large Congressional District, beating incumbent…
Continue ReadingSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. officials say Arizona, Nevada and Mexico will get less Colorado River water after reservoir levels hit critical…
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ, SUMAN NAISHADHAM and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — For the second year in a row, Arizona and Nevada will…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney was increasingly open on Wednesday about…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER and JAMES ANDERSON Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Gov. Mark Gordon has a clear path to reelection after winning the…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — The rolling prairie lands of northeastern Wyoming have been a paradise of lush, knee-deep…
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ and FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Banks along parts of the Colorado River where water once streamed are now…
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Elections in Wyoming and Alaska on Tuesday could relaunch the political career of a former…
Continue ReadingBy BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — They hail from their states’ most prominent Republican families. They have been among…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER McDERMOTT and MARY KATHERINE WILDEMAN Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A major economic bill headed to the president has…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A diesel pipeline in Wyoming owned by a company that’s being sued by federal…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday reinstated a moratorium on coal leasing from federal lands that…
Continue ReadingHELENA, Mont. (AP) — A law that said only Montana residents can gather signatures to qualify initiatives for the state ballot is unconstitutional,…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming while a lawsuit that contests a ban on the procedure in…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials won’t approve a natural gas pipeline from Idaho to Wyoming until additional…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice asked a federal judge this week to bar Idaho from enforcing…
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Wildlife advocates sued federal officials Tuesday after the government missed a deadline to decide if protections for gray…
Continue ReadingBy BRADY McCOMBS and SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Nicole Schmidt vividly remembers the pain she felt watching body camera…
Continue ReadingHELENA, Mont. (AP) — A day after the federal government declared a public health emergency to respond to monkeypox, the Montana health department…
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A federal agency has once again failed to consider possible damage to the environment…
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press Former Vice President Dick Cheney excoriated Donald Trump in a new campaign video for his daughter Rep. Liz Cheney,…
Continue ReadingJACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — A lightning strike at an outdoors educator course in the Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming killed one student and…
Continue ReadingBy BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Even in hindsight, Nichole Schmidt can’t be sure if anything could have been done to…
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Hundreds of miles apart, but still connected by the same stubborn weather system, urban St. Louis and rural…
Continue ReadingMISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A heat wave that’s been scorching the Pacific Northwest and is suspected in several deaths will create dangerous weather…
Continue ReadingBy DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A judge’s ruling that will delay the closing of North Dakota’s lone abortion clinic should…
Continue ReadingDENVER (AP) — Conservation groups filed lawsuits against state environmental agencies in Colorado and Montana this week targeting coal mines in the…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — A young Josh Allen couldn’t wait to clamber into the front seat of his father’s Chevy…
Continue ReadingCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Judge temporarily blocks Wyoming abortion ban on day it took…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Abortion bans set to take effect this week in Wyoming and North Dakota…
Continue ReadingBy TOM DAVIES and ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Thousands of people arguing the abortion issue surrounded the Indiana…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A lawsuit filed Monday by a Casper women’s health clinic and others seeks to block…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Most abortions will become illegal in Wyoming on Wednesday after Gov. Mark Gordon gave the…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Three weeks before the most significant election of her political career,…
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Limiting the size of new swimming pools in and around Las Vegas might save a drop in the proverbial…
Continue ReadingCHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. Department of the Interior on Thursday issued guidance for nearly $725 million in funding available this fiscal…
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ Associated Press DELTA, Utah (AP) — The coal plant is closing. In this tiny Utah town surrounded by cattle, alfalfa fields and…
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Four people died in a small plane crash Sunday in the foothills west of Boulder, Colorado, the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. officials on Thursday solicited outside help as they craft definitions of old growth and mature…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. prosecutors suspect a Wyoming company of potentially concealing problems with a…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL PHILLIS and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press Preston Brown knows the risk of wildfire that comes with living in the rural,…
Continue ReadingST. IGNACE, Mich. (AP) — A Wyoming woman has been arrested and is awaiting extradition to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to face arraignment in…
Continue ReadingBy JON MELTZER, LAUREN MOWRY, VICTORIA IFATUSIN and MICHAEL PURDIE / Howard Center for Investigative Journalism Howard Center for Investigative…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — People have a right protected by the First Amendment to film police while they work, a Western…
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As Donald Trump considers another White House run, polls show he’s the most popular figure in…
Continue ReadingYELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — It could take three to five years to replace roads damaged by flooding last month in Yellowstone National…
Continue ReadingHELENA Federal authorities added three more Montana counties to a presidential disaster declaration issued following last month’s destructive…
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday presented the nation’s highest civilian honor, the…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Yellowstone National Park area’s weather forecast the…
Continue ReadingBy BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — For National Park Service fisheries biologist Jeff Arnold, it was a moment he’d been…
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court limited the power of the federal government to regulate…
Continue ReadingBy JANET McCONNAUGHEY and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday proposed up to 10…
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — A sunken boat dating back to World War II is the latest object to emerge from a shrinking reservoir that straddles Nevada and…
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will present the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press SIOUX CENTER, Iowa (AP) — Stunning new revelations about former President Donald Trump’s…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Energy companies bid more than $22 million to secure drilling rights on about 110 square…
Continue ReadingMAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park is reopening its flood-damaged north loop at noon on Saturday, in time for the Fourth of…
Continue ReadingYELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — For the second time in three days, a visitor to Yellowstone National Park was gored by a bison, park…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. Capitol insurrection dominated Thursday’s debate in Wyoming among U.S. Rep.…
Continue ReadingMEETEETSE, Wyo. (AP) — A distress signal initially thought to be from a crashed aircraft led searchers to a backpacker who’d been mauled by a…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. government this week is holding its first onshore oil and natural gas drilling…
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