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SVI Radio Interview: Dir. Brian Nesvik, Wyoming G&F

Wyoming Game & Fish Director Brian Nesvik called into SVI Radio’s Weekday Wake-Up on Tuesday, May 7 for his monthly report to radio listeners. Dir. Nesvik touched on the success of the Gray Wolf Management Plan, AIS check stations and…

Wyoming joins 21-State Coalition in Lawsuit in Defending Second Amendment Rights from Federal Overreach

  CHEYENNE, Wyo. – The State of Wyoming joined 20 other states in a lawsuit arguing that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is overstepping its authority and infringing on Americans’ Second Amendment right to privately buy and…

Gray wolf report outlines management and conservation efforts

Wyoming’s gray wolf population continues to achieve all management goals, according to the 2023 Wyoming Gray Wolf Monitoring and Management annual report by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and partnering agencies. Wyoming is maintaining wolf numbers at healthy levels, and…

LCSD1’s Teresa Chaulk named Wyoming Superintendent of the Year

Teresa Chaulk, Superintendent for Lincoln County School District #1 in Kemmerer/Diamondville, has been named the 2025 Superintendent of the Year for Wyoming by the Wyoming Association of School Administrators. She has been invited to represent Wyoming at the national conference…

Experts: Medicaid expansion critical to saving Wyoming’s health care industry

  By Hannah Shields Wyoming Tribune Eagle Via- Wyoming News Exchange CHEYENNE — Casper resident Angie Dax sat on the edge of her bed with a bottle of pills in her hand. She resisted the urge to swallow the entire…

Wyomingites overwhelmingly support health coverage for their family, friends and neighbors

• Medicaid Awareness Month Closes Out with Committee Discussion about Expanding Medicaid AFTON, WY – Medicaid expansion featured heavily in discussion at the interim’s first Joint Labor, Health and Social Services Committee on Monday. While discussing a proposal for a…

No. 1 obstacle to filling Wyoming’s maternity care gaps? Hiring.

  • New hospital survey results come as 11 of Wyoming’s 23 counties do not have a practicing OB-GYN and three delivery facilities have closed in the last decade. Lawmakers begin to look for solutions.   By Katie Klingsporn, WyoFile.com…

Senators applaud passage of ban on Russian uranium

CHEYENNE (WNE) — U.S. Sens. John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis, both R-Wyo., applauded the unanimous passage Tuesday of H.R. 1042, a bill to ban Russian uranium imports into the United States. H.R. 1042 was sponsored by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers,…

Legislators debate who should shape Wyoming health care system

By Carrie Haderlie Wyoming Tribune Eagle Via- Wyoming News Exchange CHEYENNE — Lawmakers spent Monday morning debating which experts — if any — should be allowed to shape Wyoming’s health care system. At an interim meeting in Afton, the Joint…

Wyoming’s Favorite Baby Name Winners Crowned

  Evelyn won the competition for the number one female name among Wyoming’s new babies in 2023, with Henry topping the race among male names, according to Vital Statistics Services (VSS), part of the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH). For…