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BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Three skiers were injured after being swept downhill in a 400-foot (122-meter) wide avalanche south of Cooke City.…
Continue ReadingBOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Three skiers were injured after being swept downhill in a 400-foot (122-meter) wide avalanche south of Cooke City.…
Continue ReadingBy BILLY ARNOLD Jackson Hole News&Guide JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Liz Cheney says she’s still a Republican and believes in what the…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A hiker in Montana has been killed in a suspected encounter with a grizzly bear north of…
Continue ReadingBOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Authorities say a 29-year-old man died after a fall while snowboarding at Montana’s Big Sky Resort. The Gallatin County…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A conservation group has filed a lawsuit against U.S. environmental officials for alleged…
Continue ReadingROUTT COUNTY, Colo. (AP) — Colorado authorities say a backcountry skier has been killed in an avalanche in the Buffalo Pass area northeast of…
Continue ReadingAuthorities say they found a man dead inside an Evansville home following an overnight standoff with law…
Continue ReadingDENVER (AP) — President Biden has signed a bipartisan bill designating a former World War II Japanese American internment camp in rural Colorado as…
Continue ReadingOPHIR, Colo. (AP) — Authorities say a backcountry snowboarder is dead after an avalanche in southwestern Colorado. Devin Overton of Telluride was…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Joe Biden’s move last week to ban oil from Russia over…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL, MATTHEW BROWN and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An appeals court has revived a Biden administration effort to…
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Continue ReadingBy MITCH STACY AP Sports Writer DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Trayce Jackson-Davis had 29 points and nine rebounds, Jordan Geromino scored a career-high 15…
Continue ReadingTUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A California man has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for burglarizing user fee collections sites on the Coronado…
Continue ReadingDENVER (AP) — A snowmobiler died in a weekend avalanche in south-central Wyoming. The Colorado Avalanche Information Center says the avalanche…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana coach Mike Woodson wanted Trayce Jackson-Davis to returning this season so he could…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES AP National Politics Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A shadow primary has begun to take shape among no fewer than three fierce Republican…
Continue ReadingBy OLIVIA PRENTZEL The Colorado Sun SILVERTON, Colo. (AP) — The Wild West spectacle called skijoring challenges even the most experienced skiers as…
Continue ReadingMERIDIAN, Idaho (AP) — Police say far-right activist Ammon Bundy has been arrested after refusing to leave a hospital in connection with a…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press LANDER, Wyo. (AP) — There truly is an app for everything, including roadkill in Wyoming. A new phone app is making…
Continue ReadingBy CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The parents of Gabby Petito claim in a new lawsuit in Florida that Brian Laundrie…
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS — Brendan Wenzel had 12 points off the bench and Wyoming scored the last seven points of the game to edge fifth-seeded UNLV 59-56 in the…
Continue ReadingBy BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Brian Dutcher’s San Diego State Aztecs appear primed for what has become an annual run through…
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Continue ReadingFORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — The Montana Stockgrowers Association has asked its state’s wildlife agency to reject any requests to capture…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is criticizing Liz Cheney, saying the committee investigating the…
Continue ReadingLARAMIE, Wyo. — Xavier DuSell had 21 points as Wyoming edged past Fresno State 68-64 in overtime. Orlando Robinson led the Bulldogs with a…
Continue ReadingMILLS, Wyo. (AP) — Several firefighting agencies battled a large fire at an apartment complex that was still under construction in Mills on Friday.…
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — In one of the driest states in the nation, Republican lawmakers have…
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — Royce Hamm Jr. totaled 17 points and 10 rebounds and UNLV turned back Wyoming 64-57. Hamm sank 6 of 11 shots with three 3-pointers…
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a case stemming from the opioid addiction crisis, the Supreme Court appears ready to side…
Continue ReadingLARAMIE, Wyo. — Matt Bradley had a career-high 30 points as San Diego State topped Wyoming 73-66. Hunter Maldonado had a triple-double with 13…
Continue ReadingLARAMIE, Wyo. — Graham Ike had 23 points and 15 rebounds as Wyoming extended its home winning streak to 13 games, defeating Nevada 74-61. Hunter…
Continue ReadingBy TOM KUGLIN Independent-Record HELENA, Mont. (AP) — U.S. and state officials say hunting wolves from aircraft is prohibited under federal law,…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed in a settlement with environmentalists to decide…
Continue ReadingJACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Contractors hired by Grand Teton National Park have killed 50 invasive mountain goats this week in a campaign to protect the…
Continue ReadingBy BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Three Republicans in the Arizona House defected from a united GOP front to defeat a measure banning…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park captured 37 bison migrating outside the park and sent most of…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The governors of four Rocky Mountain states say they will cooperate on developing ways to…
Continue ReadingFORT COLLINS, Colo. — David Roddy had 26 points and 11 rebounds as Colorado State defeated Wyoming 61-55. Drake Jeffries led the Cowboys on…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press HARDIN, Mont. (AP) — Economists say the costs of climate change are growing as global warming happens more…
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Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is delaying decisions on new federal oil and gas drilling and other…
Continue ReadingCOOKE CITY, Mont. (AP) — An investigation is underway after a snow biker was killed in an avalanche in southern Montana. The Gallatin National…
Continue ReadingBy RYAN THORBURN Associated Press LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Hunter Maldonado scored 29 points and Graham Ike had 27 to lead No. 22 Wyoming to a 75-67…
Continue ReadingOMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A new monthly survey of bankers released Thursday says the strength of the economy in rural parts of 10 Plains and Western…
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks says wolf hunting and trapping season has ended in southwestern Montana. A…
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is endorsing a…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming lawmakers have voted narrowly to consider a Donald Trump-backed bill that could…
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled the U.S. Office of Surface Mining failed to adequately analyze…
Continue ReadingCHEYENNE Police in Wyoming arrested a school bus driver taking high school students to an activity in South Dakota for suspected DUI and having an…
Continue ReadingALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Jaelen House scored 34 points and New Mexico played stingy defense to beat No. 22 Wyoming 75-66. Jamal Mashburn Jr. added…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST and SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers rejected a proposal to abolish the state’s death…
Continue ReadingBy AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Wyoming has gone from being picked to finish at the bottom of the Mountain West Conference to playing this week…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs has announced a series of reforms after reviewing the deaths of 16…
Continue ReadingJACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — A backcountry skier died in a fall in Grand Teton National Park. Park officials say 27-year-old Radcliff Spencer, of Jackson,…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming’s governor says state employee raises are his top priority as lawmakers get to…
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press As the remaining vaccine mandates for medical workers get to set be implemented this week in 25 mostly…
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The megadrought bedeviling the American West got even drier last year and is becoming the deepest dry spell in…
Continue ReadingBy AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Gonzaga has reclaimed the No. 1 ranking in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll. The Bulldogs…
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE POLLACK Casper Star-Tribune CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A small area of prairie straddling the Wyoming-Montana line is the only place where the…
Continue ReadingSAN JOSE, Calif. — Graham Ike had 25 points and 18 rebounds as Wyoming romped past San Jose State 74-52. Hunter Maldonado added 23 points for the…
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Tax receipts from surging gun and ammunition sales have boosted money for a U.S. conservation program to a record level. The…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN, MATTHEW DALY and KEVIN McGILL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked the Biden administration’s…
Continue ReadingCASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has had buildings, casinos, golf courses, an airline and steaks named after him. Now a Wyoming…
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump remains the most popular figure with the GOP base as he considers…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and JOHN FLESHER Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont (AP) — A judge has restored federal protections for gray wolves across much of…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press The largest public power company in the United States is launching a program to develop and fund new small…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES AP National Politics Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A rift over the Republican National Committee’s symbolic vote to censure former…
Continue ReadingLARAMIE, Wyo. — Graham Ike had 28 points and 12 rebounds and scored the game winner as Wyoming narrowly beat Utah State 78-76 in overtime. Drake…
Continue ReadingBy AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer No. 23 Murray State will play two games this week with its first AP Top 25 ranking since 2015. The Racers are…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Nearly $725 million in federal funding is available this fiscal year to 22 states and the…
Continue ReadingWEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. (AP) — A snowmobiler died over the weekend when an avalanche swept him downhill and into trees in the Lionhead area west of…
Continue ReadingFRESNO, Calif. — Hunter Maldonado had 21 points as Wyoming narrowly defeated Fresno State 61-59. Isaiah Hill led the Bulldogs with a career-high 25…
Continue ReadingJACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Anny Malo of Quebec, Canada won the Pedigree Stage Stop sled dog race for the forth straight year. Race officials say Malo…
Continue ReadingBy EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — At the Tetonia Club in Alta, Wyoming, they clung to one simple phrase as their…
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Party leaders at the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting this…
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Republican National Committee has censured two GOP lawmakers for participating on the…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Investigators say a man who allegedly kidnapped an employee at the western Colorado ranch owned by…
Continue ReadingBy PAT GRAHAM and HOWARD FENDRICH AP Sports Writers It is not uncommon for athletes who compete in Alpine skiing to get left behind and miss an…
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republican officials meeting in Utah have advanced a watered-down resolution…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Liz Cheney continues to set fundraising records in her bid for reelection to Wyoming’s…
Continue ReadingLARAMIE, Wyo. — Hunter Maldonado had a career-high 35 points as Wyoming won its ninth straight home game, topping Colorado State 84-78 in overtime.…
Continue ReadingHELENA, Mont. (AP) — The state of Montana has reached a $270,000 settlement with a Wyoming man who was forced into a ditch to avoid colliding with…
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, in letters to seven governors, is reaffirming the need for…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Authorities investigating the cause of a wildfire that destroyed more than 1,000…
Continue ReadingBy BRETT FRENCH The Billings Gazette Billings, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park is developing a new bison management plan that officials say…
Continue ReadingCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Hunter Maldonado had a season-high 31 points as Wyoming narrowly beat Air Force 63-61. A.J. Walker led the Falcons on…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has an opportunity for a reset on climate policy after a federal judge…
Continue ReadingDENVER (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Colorado rafting outfitters seeking to block a federal rule that will oblige them to pay a…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana wildlife commissioners are shutting down gray wolf hunting and trapping in areas…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A federal judge won’t rein in the roundup and capture of wild horses in eastern Nevada —…
Continue ReadingCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming’s governor has chosen a new state superintendent after a judge allowed the appointment to go ahead despite a…
Continue ReadingBy ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Green Bay Packers offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett has agreed to become…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho — Abu Kigab registered 18 points and five assists as Boise State won its 13th consecutive game, edging past Wyoming 65-62. Drake…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. government plans to capture more wild horses on federal lands this year than ever…
Continue ReadingBy MAE ANDERSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The COVID-19 booster drive in the U.S. is losing steam, worrying health experts who have pleaded…
Continue ReadingBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart says it has taken a stake in agriculture startup Plenty, becoming the first…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A federal lawsuit alleges a white sheriff’s deputy in Wyoming subjected a Black…
Continue ReadingCEDAR HILLS, Utah (AP) — A teenager was seriously injured in a Utah sledding accident just as health officials were giving out helmets and warning…
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