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Shots - Health News
(Left) More than 100 people have been attending weekly anti-abortion prayer vigils outside the site of a future Casper, Wyo., clinic offering abortion and other health care services. (Right) Abortion-rights supporter Rikki Hayes holds up a sign near the

A new clinic offering abortions is set to open in Wyoming, despite a looming ban

May 24, 2022
Aimed at serving a regional "abortion desert," the clinic plans to open, despite the expected overturn of Roe v. Wade. It's become a focal point for abortion debate in the state.
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Wyoming app helps residents salvage roadkill

Wyoming app helps residents salvage roadkill

Mar 18, 2022

It’s legal to pick up roadkill for food in most of the Mountain West (Nevada excluded). You generally just have to get a permit, and now Wyoming is making that especially easy to do. In that state, you can get a permit via an app, called Wyoming 511. However, if you want to take part of the animal for food, you’ll need to take the entire animal with you.

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Business
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell appears for testimony before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee on July 15, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Among the key decisions for the Fed is when to start withdrawing some of the stimulus it has

It's Called The Bond Taper. Yes, It's Geeky. But This Is Why You Should Know About It

Aug 23, 2021
The Federal Reserve has provided massive support to markets through the pandemic. Now it faces a tricky decision: how to start removing some of that help without triggering a market sell-off.
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Weather
People cross the road as a sign warns of heavy snow on Sunday in Denver, Colo. A winter storm closed roads, impacted flights, and knocked out power in Arizona, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Colorado through the weekend.

Winter Storm Slams The West With Heavy Snow, Strong Winds

Mar 14, 2021
Lingering effects of the storm are expected to cause dangerous conditions though early Monday as residents dig out from under the weekend's record breaking levels of snow.
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National
In Wyoming, public schools such as Pinedale's middle school, face significant cuts to their budgets due to slumping oil, gas and coal prices.

Facing A Reckoning, Wyoming Wrestles With A Transition From Fossil Fuels

Feb 10, 2021
The Biden administration is expected to be sued over its ban on new oil and gas leasing on federal land. In top fossil fuel states like Wyoming, cuts to services and mass layoffs were already looming.
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President Biden Takes Office
A sign in the Jonah Field advertises cheap rates at a deserted motel built for oil and gas workers.

A Wyoming County Predicts 'Total Economic Devastation' From Biden Leasing Ban

Jan 28, 2021
Most of the oil and gas drilled in Wyoming comes from federal land and communities there are bracing for job losses and school funding cuts in the wake of a Biden administration pause on new leasing.
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Religion
Diwali is known as the "festival of lights." But really, it's more than that. It is a new year for Hindus across the globe. It symbolizes the victory of light over darkness, good over evil and knowledge over ignorance.

How Hindus In Wyoming Are Celebrating Diwali, the 'Festival Of Lights,' Amid Pandemic

Nov 14, 2020
The holiday, which marks the new year, is observed over five days in various ways, from decorating with lights, praying at the temple and feasts with loved ones. Much of that is different this year.
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Environment And Energy Collaborative
Ty Cordingly and his dad at a local Gillette diner. He's seen coworkers leave the state for jobs and thinks Wyoming relies too much on the energy industry.

'It's The Stone Age Of Fossil Fuels': Coal Bankruptcy Tests Wyoming Town

Sep 04, 2019
Hundreds of coal miners in Wyoming are still out of work two months after their employer declared bankruptcy. It's a moment of reckoning for a town some think relies too much on the energy industry.
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Shots - Health News
In rugged, rural areas, patients often have little choice about how they'll get to the hospital in an emergency. "The presence of private equity in the air ambulance industry indicates that investors see profit opportunities," a 2017 report from the fede

Wyoming Wants To Use Medicaid To Reduce Air Ambulance Bills For All Patients

Aug 23, 2019
Frustrated with sky-high bills from air ambulance companies, Wyoming hopes to hammer down those charges with more regulation. The companies say such a proposal undermines free enterprise.
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National
Gregory Day holds a placard covered in photos of his deceased daughter, Dawn. It's the one he carried in a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's march last spring.

7 States Step Up Efforts To Fight Violence Against Indigenous Women

Jul 23, 2019
Native girls and women are more likely than average to be the victim of a violent crime. Now, several state task forces will try to better identify and locate indigenous crime victims.
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National
A coyote runs down the road in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park. In 2018, more than 68,000 coyotes were killed in the U.S., including 5,600 just in Wyoming, under an Agriculture Department program.

Killing Coyotes Is Not As Effective As Once Thought, Researchers Say

Jun 14, 2019
Government agencies kill more than 68,000 coyotes a year to keep them from preying on livestock and big game. But scientists say tracking them might be a better solution.
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Law
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, pictured in 2017, has proven to be a deciding vote on Native American rights.

Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Native American Rights In Wyoming Hunting Case

May 20, 2019
Justice Neil Gorsuch, the only Westerner on the court, again provided the decisive vote in favor of American Indian rights.
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Newscast headlines

Transmission Line Project Receives Wyoming Approval

Apr 22, 2019

SARATOGA, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming regulators have approved construction of transmission lines to connect energy generated from wind farms in southern Wyoming to southwestern states.

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National
Jason Salfi, left, and Dr. David Erickson, right, of Dimensional Energy, are finalists in the Carbon XPRIZE. They stand in front of the Dry Fork Station coal-fired power plant in Gillette, Wyo., where the competition is located.

In Wyoming, A Contest To Capture Carbon And Save Coal

Mar 05, 2019
The state of Wyoming, the country's largest coal producer, is the site of the Carbon XPRIZE in which entrepreneurs compete to capture carbon and turn it into commercial products.
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National
Wyoming attorney Karen Budd-Falen, recently named as Deputy Solicitor for Parks and Wildlife at the Department of the Interior, sits in her law office in Cheyenne, Wyo.

Critic Of Federal Public Lands Management To Join Department Of The Interior

Oct 15, 2018
The Department of the Interior has chosen a prominent property rights attorney in Wyoming as their new deputy solicitor. Its a controversial appointment for environmental groups.
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Newscast headlines

Arsonist Who Set Fires In Utah May Be Behind Wyoming Fires

Sep 05, 2018
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a suspected arsonist who set several wildfires along a Utah interstate may also be responsible for fires in Wyoming.
 
Investigator Jason Curry, of the Utah Forestry, Fire and State Lands, says six fires that started alo
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The Salt
Bonita Carlson and Drew Persson in their home on Persson Ranch are betting big that blockchain can help them charge a premium for their cattle.

Where's The Beef? Wyoming Ranchers Bet On Blockchain To Track It

Aug 15, 2018
By tagging cattle and updating their data about their free-range, grass-fed quality of life using blockchain, some ranchers are hoping to solve paper tracking pitfalls and sell their beef for more.
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Animals
Sow Grizzly and cub in Wyoming.

Wyoming Gives 22 Winners The Chance To Hunt Grizzlies — Or Not

Jul 26, 2018
A whopping 7,000 people vied for the chance to hunt Wyoming grizzly bears for the first time in 44 years. Many entrants in the permit lottery said if they won, they would sit out the hunt.
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Law
City of Powell employees discovered three marijuana plants had been secretly grown in city-owned planters.

Wyoming City Workers Find Unexpected Weed In Planters: Marijuana

Jul 16, 2018
Three cannabis plants remained hidden amid city-owned pansies and marigolds for weeks, until they sprouted up above the blooms. Police called it a joke and say it's not the first time.
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National
Flames and smoke billow skyward as a wildfire burns near Durango, Colo. on June 7, 2018. The 416 Fire continued to burn more than 27,000 acres Wednesday morning, causing the closure of a nearby national forest.

Wildfires Blaze Across Parts Of Southwest

Jun 13, 2018
The fires have shut down the San Juan National Forest and destroyed homes in the tourist hub of Moab, Utah.
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The Salt
Rancher Les Dunmire, 66, says he's ready to retire but wants to make sure his children will not be forced to sell the ranch.

Rural Lands At Risk As Ranchers Prepare For Retirement

Apr 25, 2018
Universities and ranch land advocates are offering estate planning classes to ranchers with a goal of saving their land from redevelopment.
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Law
Wyoming legislators are struggling to adapt the state's marijuana laws to take into account more forms of the drug coming across the Colorado border.

How Much Pot Is In That Brownie? Wyoming Moves To Toughen Edible Marijuana Laws

Jan 24, 2018

Despite an influx of edible marijuana from neighboring Colorado, lawmakers in Wyoming are looking to maintain strict weight limits for felony pot possession.

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Newscast headlines

Power Lines To Connect Wyoming Wind Energy To Southwest

Sep 14, 2017

RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) — Construction on transmission lines to connect energy generated from wind farms in southern Wyoming to southwestern states is planned to begin in 2019.

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The Two-Way
University of Wyoming student Tyler Wolfgang poses in front of the university building that bears Sen. Mike Enzi's name.

Tutu Protests And Parties Break Out In Wyoming Over Senator's Remark

Apr 28, 2017
People are using the #LiveandLetTutu hashtag to share images of themselves wearing tutus, in response to Sen. Mike Enzi saying a man who wears a tutu in a bar is asking for it.
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Around the Nation
Buford, Wyo. is known as the smallest town in the U.S.

Buford: Come for the Coffee, Stay ... To Keep The Tiny Town Open

Mar 05, 2017
The self-proclaimed smallest town in America, Buford, Wyo., population one, is in danger of losing its last resident and being removed from the maps completely.

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