Amid funding concerns, lawmakers reject push for EMS as essential service
By Aedan Hannon Casper Star-Tribune Via- Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — Lawmakers on a legislative health panel declined last week to move forward with a draft bill that would have made emergency medical services (EMS) an essential service in Wyoming…
Tornado strike causes severe damage at nation’s largest coal mine
• Six were hospitalized for injuries, and a ‘massive’ cleanup job remains at Peabody Energy’s North Antelope Rochelle mine. By Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile.com Hundreds of workers escaped serious injury, though six required hospital treatment, when a tornado ripped through the…
Wild horses back in court amid swelling populations, planned roundups
• Mustang advocates have mounted a legal fight aiming to reverse a Bureau of Land Management decision calling for zero horses in portions of the checkerboard. By Mike Koshmrl, WyoFile.com ROCK SPRINGS — Jim Magagna summed up one difficulty of…
Legislators, doctors want rules on prior authorization
By Aedan Hannon Casper Star-Tribune Via- Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — For the first time, Wyoming lawmakers are looking to put in place rules that guide how health insurance companies can approve and deny medical care. However, the second interim…
Wyoming leaders battle Biden for gun rights
By Sarah Elmquist Squires Lander Journal Via- Wyoming News Exchange LANDER — Last week, U.S. Senators John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis fired back against a Biden administration Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) rule governing pistol braces. The senators joined…
Human remains from 1982 cold case identified
CASPER (WNE) — Human remains discovered near Granger in 1982 have been identified, according to the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office. Jack Clawson of Sedalia, Missouri went missing in 1981 while traveling through Wyoming on his way home from a trip…
State seeks to kill 50% more lions in hard-hit deer range
• Unplanned quota hike is a direct response to mule deer winterkill in the Wyoming Range. A lion hunter blasts the proposal. By Mike Koshmrl, WyoFile.com The Wyoming Game and Fish Department proposes to boost its mountain lion hunting…
State’s proposed sage grouse protections anger local ranchers
By Jonathan Gallardo Gillette News Record Via- Wyoming News Exchange GILLETTE — Jimmy Mankin’s worried about the future. The Mankin Ranch, located about 20 miles south of Gillette west of Highway 50, was established in 1939. He has cattle and…
Groundbreaking of transmission line marked by federal and state officials
By Aedan Hannon Casper Star-Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — Some of them had been waiting more than a decade, but a slate of TransWest Express company leaders and federal and state officials smiled Tuesday afternoon as their…
Elk wars: Inflated herds spur committee duel, radical proposals
Two elk-related bills are poised to emerge from the Agriculture Committee, where lawmakers took on an unassigned topic because of dissatisfaction with another committee’s response. By Mike Koshmrl, WyoFile.com Ordinary hunting will never reduce elk numbers to their target…