Hunters: Submit your harvest survey
CHEYENNE (WNE) – The Wyoming Game and Fish Department wants to know how your hunt went this year. Many hunters will receive a harvest survey electronically via email or postcard beginning Oct. 16 and continuing throughout the hunting season….
Pack Trail Fire spurs evacuations for Upper Gros Ventre, Darwin
By Billy Arnold Jackson Hole News&Guide Via- Wyoming News Exchange JACKSON — Firefighters on the Pack Trail Fire have ordered evacuations in the Upper Gros Ventre River Drainage east of Goosewing Ranch and told the area near the Darwin Ranch…
Officials move closer to allowing public to carry concealed guns in Wyoming Capitol
• State leaders voted to proceed with plans to allow most people to conceal carry in public areas of the Capitol and extension. That’s after 87% of online comments opposed allowing permitted-only concealed carry. By Madelyn Beck, WyoFile.com…
When electric utilities spark wildfires, how much should they have to pay victims?
• The threat of billion-dollar class-action lawsuits bankrupting power companies has lawmakers considering a cap on claims. By Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile.com Lawmakers are scrambling to draft a bill that would restrict what wildfire victims can claim damages for…
Constitutional amendment could lead to separate property tax class
By Carrie Haderlie The Sheridan Press Via- Wyoming News Exchange SHERIDAN — This fall, Wyoming voters will decide whether to amend the state constitution to create a class of residential property to be taxed independently from commercial property in…
K-12 special ed teachers burned out amid behavioral health epidemic
By Hannah Shields Wyoming Tribune Eagle Via- Wyoming News Exchange CHEYENNE — Elle Sanderson’s son, Raylan, is diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder, SYNGAP1, that affects his ability to communicate. Two years ago, right before school let out for…
Hiring freeze will increase risk of backcountry fatalities, forecast foundation says
By Billy Arnold Jackson Hole News&Guide Via- Wyoming News Exchange JACKSON — Dwayne Meadows did not mince words in a Monday letter exhorting federal officials to exempt avalanche professionals from a hiring freeze. Barring the Bridger-Teton Avalanche Center…
Lawmakers advance measure opening Wyoming to possible nuclear fuel waste storage
Despite public testimony against the measure, a legislative committee says it will introduce a bill before the full Legislature in January. By Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile.com With a handful of dissenting votes, a legislative panel has advanced a draft measure…
Scholars try to check pro-nuclear narrative
By Zak Sonntag Casper Star-Tribune Via- Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — Nuclear energy is hot right now — figuratively speaking. The world’s biggest banks, nations and companies are all lining up behind the so-called nuclear renaissance to the tune…
Public comment on Alpine charter school raises concerns
JACKSON (WNE) — Public comments submitted by Alpine residents to the Wyoming Charter School Authorizing Board were largely critical of the American Preparatory Academy. Of the 52 written comments submitted to the board at the end of September, only…