UW faculty stretched thin after latest budget cuts
◆ Trustees finalize $16. 5 million in cuts. Additional cuts coming associated with a reduction in Legislature’s block grant. By Daniel Bendtsen WyoFile.com/WNE The University of Wyoming will enter the 2022 fiscal year with a wide array of new financial…
Supreme Court won’t hear coal port lawsuit
By the Gillette News Record staff Via- Wyoming News Exchange GILLETTE – Gov. Mark Gordon calls a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to not take up a lawsuit challenging Washington state’s denial of a coal export terminal “extremely frustrating.”…
Tribes take ownership of reservation oil field
By Nate Perez Casper Star-Tribune Via- Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — After decades of leasing Circle Ridge Field, the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho have taken full ownership of the oil and gas field on the Wind River Reservation. Both…
Rock Springs airport gets grant for modernization
ROCK SPRINGS (WNE) — The Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport has been awarded more than $8.4 million in funding for its Commercial Terminal Modernization Project, and construction is set to begin in July. The $8,406,667 in funding will come from the…
Stun and dismay follow political espionage revelations
By Nick Reynolds, WyoFile.com Wealthy conservative donor Susan Gore was a key financier of a years-long effort to spy on Wyoming Democrats and Republicans, an article published Friday by the New York Times revealed, shining a light on the lengths…
Man killed, trooper wounded in shootout near Lander
By Clair McFarland Riverton Ranger Via- Wyoming News Exchange RIVERTON — An exchange of gunfire Friday afternoon during a traffic stop left the driver of the stopped vehicle mortally shot and a Highway Patrol trooper wounded. The injured trooper was…
Rig count slowly recovering
By Nicole Pollack Casper Star-Tribune Via- Wyoming News Exchange CASPER –– A year after the number of drilling rigs in Wyoming fell to zero for the first time in more than a century, the state’s rig count is inching back…
Montana man arrested, accused of starting Robertson Draw Fire
By Mark Davis and CJ Baker Powell Tribune Via- Wyoming News Exchange POWELL — A Bridger, Montana, man was arrested Wednesday on allegations that he started the 28,600-acre Robertson Draw Fire while off-trail on his motorcycle. John Lightburn, 55, faces…
Low statewide vaccination raise concerns of future COVID-19 spikes
By Tom Hallberg Jackson Hole News&Guide Via- Wyoming News Exchange JACKSON – Despite the best efforts of public health officials, Wyoming still ranks 48th among states for the percentage of adults who have received at least one shot of a…
Yellowstone’s first bison goring in ’21
JACKSON (WNE) — An inglorious and painful, though hallmark, sign of Northwestern Wyoming summer passed by over the weekend near the shoreline of Yellowstone Lake. The unfortunate, typically annual event that unfolded was a Yellowstone National Park tourist being gored…