Dozens of oil refinery workers laid off
By Greg Johnson Rawlins Times Via- Wyoming News Exchange RAWLINS —More than 30 workers at the local HF Sinclair oil refinery are out of work and 55 more have been put on notice in what the company calls a realignment…
Grand Teton National Park warns of possible rabid bat
JACKSON (WNE) —Beware of bats behaving oddly. Grand Teton National Park said a group of hikers came across one last weekend that might have been infected with rabies, a viral disease that will kill people if they aren’t treated before…
Wyo Department of Health: State saw 98 abortions in ‘21
CODY (WNE) —Nearly 100 women were reported as having received abortions in Wyoming in 2021, according to a recently released report by the Wyoming Department of Health. The 2021 Wyoming Abortion Report was released soon after the U.S. Supreme Court…
Fire south of Douglas 0% contained at 653 acres
DOUGLAS (WNE) — Six hundred eighty-three acres have burned six miles southwest of Esterbrook as of Tuesday, and the fire remained 0% contained, although Forest Service fire crews are on the scene battling the blaze. Esterbrook is a very small…
Economic recovery continues
By Mary Steurer Casper Star-Tribune Via- Wyoming News Exchange CASPER —Over the first three months of 2022, Wyoming continued to enjoy an economic recovery, a new report from the state’s economic analysis division shows. The state owes the revival, in…
West Nile virus detected in Teton mosquitos
JACKSON (WNE) — The Teton County Weed and Pest District detected West Nile virus in mosquitoes — the first such detection in 2022 — during routine surveillance on Friday. West Nile virus is the leading cause of mosquito-borne disease in…
Attorneys, physicians scramble to make sense of abortion ban
By Sofia Jeremias, WyoFile.com When the U.S. Supreme Court two weeks ago overturned Roe v. Wade, Wyoming was one of 13 states prepared to capitalize on the moment and enact an abortion ban “trigger bill.” Most abortions in Wyoming will likely be illegal once…
Interior Secretary Haaland surveys Yellowstone flood damage
By Billy Arnold Jackson Hole Daily Via- Wyoming News Exchange JACKSON —U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said Friday she’s committed to helping Yellowstone National Park rebuild after historic flooding, but she hasn’t yet secured the funding to do so. Yellowstone…
Oil and gas, green groups both pan reduced lease sale
By Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile.com Oil and gas companies successfully bid for the right to develop 71,251 federal acres across the West in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s first onshore oil and gas lease sale since President Joe Biden took…
Wyoming companies hoping to change U.S. reliance on China for rare earth elements
By Nicole Pollack Casper Star-Tribune Via- Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — Beneath Wyoming’s surface lies a bounty of resources most of us haven’t thought about since high school chemistry. None of the increasingly sought-after rare earth elements — neodymium, dysprosium,…