State to back carbon storage, nuclear microreactor projects with $19M
• The projects are the first to potentially win awards from the $150 million taxpayer-supported Energy Matching Fund. By Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile.com The state’s top energy office has recommended two energy projects for a combined $19 million in support…
10,000 Wyomingites have lost Medicaid or Kid Care coverage. Most are children.
• More people lost the government health coverage than maintained it as the state re-analyzes who still qualifies following steady pandemic-era enrollment. By Madelyn Beck, WyoFile.com New estimates show that more than 10,000 people have lost Medicaid or Kid…
Gibbs named to the Butkus Award Watch List
The Butkus Award released on Thursday its 2023 collegiate preseason watch list. The Butkus Award honors the best linebacker in the nation each season. A total of 51 of the top linebackers in college football were named to this year’s…
Star Valley Sports Journal: The Death of the Pac
So many times over the past quarter-century the rearranging of college football teams has been accompanied by last-second compromises, lawyer-led deals and gutsy strategy to keep the status quo moving forward. That ended this past week when a lack of…
CWD increasing in state deer, elk herds
By Mark Davis Powell Tribune Via- Wyoming News Exchange POWELL — Sobering news resulting from a multi-year Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) surveillance program by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department between 2018 and 2022 shows significant increases in the fatal…
State adds roughly $68M in K-12 funding so far this year
By Aedan Hannon Casper Star-Tribune Via- Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — Energy production has padded Wyoming’s school coffers as students and teachers prepare to head back to school later this month. Wyoming has added an extra roughly $68 million in…
WSGS Debuts Interactive Mineral Resources of Wyoming Map
Wyoming is rich with minerals. The state has abundant energy minerals, such as coal and uranium; industrial minerals, like bentonite, trona, and gypsum; as well as critical minerals, metals, and gemstones. The Wyoming State Geological Survey (WSGS) has developed a…
Be proactive with protecting your personal information
While there are always scammers out there trying to get your personal information using old methods, others use more subtle ideas. Here is two from CyberWyoming.org. Is it really a PDF? A PDF or Portable Data File, has become a…
Katelyn Mitchem Announced as Mountain West Female Scholar Athlete of Year
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Katelyn Mitchem was selected as the 2022-23 Mountain West Conference Female Scholar Athlete of the Year as announced by the conference on Thursday August 3rd. Established by the Mountain West Joint Council in 1999, the MW…
Meet Chris Petersen: 2023 Vocalist Celebrity Judge
The Vocalist, the largest singing competition in the Rocky Mountains, returns to the Lincoln County Fair in Afton, Wyoming on it’s opening day Saturday, August 3. Gates open at 6:00 p.m. with the show starting at 7:00. The show will…