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Trump’s Interior layoffs appear to mostly spare Wyoming, though the workforce is being kept in the dark
October 22, 2025
Although the Interior Department has a large presence in Wyoming — a state that’s half federal land — the legal filing only revealed two clearly in-state positions that are being eliminated.
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Wyomingites say ‘No’ to kings, show love for USA, Constitution
October 20, 2025
Hundreds from Sheridan to Cheyenne, Cody to Casper, Lander to Laramie rally against what they characterize as Trump’s monarchical ambitions.
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Trump’s major coal sales flop in Wyoming and Montana
October 08, 2025
The postponement in Wyoming and lackluster offer in Montana come just days after the Trump administration touted sweeping regulatory rollbacks and $625 million in federal spending to revitalize “clean, beautiful coal.”
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Yellowstone, Grand Teton ordered to remain partly open as government shutdown begins
October 01, 2025
Visitors can use hotels, roads, lookouts, trails, open-air memorials and other sites but there won’t be visitor services, plan states.
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No one is using a controversial compensation program for grass lost to overpopulated Wyoming elk
September 12, 2025
Because program was conceived in response to a big stink about elk numbers and damage, Game and Fish commissioner is ‘shocked’ by the absence of claims.
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Big Horn County closes two libraries, cuts staff salaries and benefits
September 02, 2025
Property tax cuts and shrinking grants pinch county budgets as Wyoming towns turn to volunteers to keep libraries going.
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Without a country to take him, Cuban immigrant spends month in limbo inside Wyoming jail
August 29, 2025
Seeking refuge from Fidel Castro’s government, Josue Rodriguez Perez came to the U.S. as a teen. Now he’s being shuffled between detainment centers, including a 40-day stretch in a Casper jail cell.
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Bison eradication stripped western grasslands of nutrients, Yellowstone research shows
August 28, 2025
The remarkable seasonal flow of thousands of bison into and out of Yellowstone National Park is both a relic of an earlier, pre-settlement era and a source of great debate.
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Five Wyoming elk herds have remained relatively unknown and uncounted — until now
August 06, 2025
State wildlife managers are stepping away from herd inventories based on landowner and hunter ‘satisfaction’ and toward population-based management.
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Trump’s pick Nesvik confirmed as Fish and Wildlife director with some bipartisan support
August 01, 2025
Wyoming’s former top wildlife official is now the nation’s top wildlife official.
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Most people arrested by ICE in Wyoming and Colorado this year did not have criminal history
July 18, 2025
Trump said ICE is going after the “worst of the worst.” The agency’s Rocky Mountain data shows otherwise.
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Trump pushes to resume coal leasing in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin
July 07, 2025
The Bureau of Land Management will amend Biden-era resource management plans to reopen coal leasing in Wyoming and Montana.
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Transgender woman protests new law with visit to a Wyoming Capitol bathroom
July 01, 2025
Rihanna Kelver drove from her home in Laramie and used the women’s restroom at the Wyoming Capitol building Tuesday in defiance of a new law prohibiting transgender people’s use of public facilities.
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As Wyoming protests, public land sell-off ‘just getting started’
June 25, 2025
Utah senator trims plans, calling targeted BLM land ‘unused,’ ‘mismanaged’ and ‘only appropriate for housing.’
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Trump to axe power plant emission rules, a potential boon for Wyoming coal
June 11, 2025
Wyoming is the nation’s largest coal producer, and more than 90% of the commodity is shipped to coal-burning electric generating plants in the U.S.
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