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Inside North America's Only Summer-Only Ski Area: Wyoming's Beartooth Basin

Beartooth Basin, located at nearly 11,000 feet of elevation in northern Wyoming, is North America’s only ski area open exclusively during the summer…

WeatherWyoFile

Drought delivers ‘worst case scenario’ for fire scar recovery in Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin

At the front end of what’s shaping up to be another active fire year, landowners and rangeland specialists speak to the challenges of healing a landscape b...

Local NewsBuffalobulletin

Drought delivers ‘worst case scenario’ for fire scar recovery in Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin

Hills on the right side of this gulch in the Bridger Mountains were not burned by the Red Canyon Fire. The slopes to the left lost their sagebrush overstory,...

Local NewsTrib

Drought delivers ‘worst case scenario’ for fire scar recovery in Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin

At the front end of what’s shaping up to be another active fire year, landowners and rangeland specialists speak to the challenges of healing a landscape b...

Local NewsQ2 News

‘Hurts my heart’: Wyoming archaeologist speaks out against petroglyph vandalism

A Wyoming archaeologist is speaking out against vandalism of petroglyphs in Bighorn Basin, which includes bullet holes and new engravings.

EducationCodyenterprise

NWC hosts drone champs in June competition

Northwest College will once again host the Wyoming State Drone Championships and Bighorn Basin Drone Challenge Cup on Saturday, June 6, in the Yellowstone Bu...

Local NewsPowelltribune

Wyoming State Drone Championships scheduled for June 6 at Northwest College

Northwest College will once again host the Wyoming State Drone Championships and Bighorn Basin Drone Challenge Cup on Saturday, June 6, in the Yellowstone Bu...

CrimeCody, WYPowelltribune

Board reaffirms value of shooting complex beyond top competitions

Phil Velayo, of Cody, is a professional long range shooter and instructor. He knows the big competitions and how much success the Wyoming State Shooting Comp...

SportsPowell, WYPowelltribune

Two Panthers earn All-Star nods

Two Powell High School graduates will take to the court in late July, as Coy Erickson and Nathan Preator were named to the Wyoming Coaches Foundation North/S...

Local NewsThesheridanpress

Game and Fish provides resources to report suspected screwworm infestations

Wyoming Game and Fish Department is providing information and resources to report suspected cases of New World Screwworm in the state.

Local NewsThesheridanpress

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Local NewsGillette, WYGillettenewsrecord

Gillette residents add tales to Re-Storying the West project

Last Wednesday, six members of the community added their stories to the stories of about 100 others as part of an effort to celebrate and share the tales of...

Local NewsLander, WYWyomingnews

Budget pinch at beloved Lander pool a symptom of Wyoming school funding challenges

Dawna Hopeman goes to water aerobics class three times a week at Lander’s indoor pool. With a small group of mostly seniors, she spends 75 minutes kicking,...

Local NewsKirby, WYCitizensvoice

‘Agnes’ documentary hits big screen at Kirby Center on Wednesday

The documentary film “Agnes” about the June 1972 flood that crippled the Wyoming Valley is hitting the big screen again.

Local NewsCitizensvoice

Wyoming Borough councilman accused of second PFA violation

A Wyoming Borough councilman who was recently sentenced to six months of probation for violating a protection-from-abuse order was charged Monday with violat...

Local NewsTimesleader

Wyoming Boro council member charged with second PFA violation

PLAINS TWP. — Wyoming Borough council member Russell Herron Jr. was charged by Plains Township police with violating a protection-from abuse order ...

Local NewsTrib

Thousands in Wyoming are paying sky-high health insurance costs. A new task force is digging into why

The new Health Insurance Affordability Task Force met for the first time. Here’s what they discussed.

Local NewsQ2 News

Q2 Billings Area Weather: Mostly sunny and warmer weather for us on Tuesday

Monday was a mild and gray day for much of central and eastern Montana & northern Wyoming, along with areas of rain, and a few severe thunderstorms. The show...

Public SafetyLaramie, WYGillettenewsrecord

WYOMING NEWS BRIEFS for Monday, June 22, 2026

LARAMIE—One man is dead and another hospitalized after a fiery crash involving a semi-truck on U.S. Highway 287 south of Laramie.

CrimeCheyenne, WYGillettenewsrecord

Lawmakers mull solutions to rising healthcare costs

CHEYENNE — Wyoming lawmakers and health care leaders gathered last week for the debut of the Legislature’s Health Insurance Affordability Task Force, a g...

Local GovernmentLaramie, WYWyomingnews

Judge backs Gordon on property tax cap question — for now

The State Board of Equalization must certify residential property tax values in Wyoming, a Laramie County District Court judge ruled Friday.

EducationJackson, WYWyomingnews

Former Wyoming schools superintendent Balow makes her case to Teton County for U.S. House

JACKSON — On the rooftop of the hotel The Cloudveil overlooking downtown Jackson, former Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow made he...

PoliticsTrib

Wyoming Supreme Court: 5 things to know About an ex-Casper cop’s failed appeal

Michael Hughes appealed his 21-to-26-year sentence. Here are 5 things to know about the case and what the court said.

Local GovernmentNatrona, WYTrib

They can fund it all this year, but what happens next has Natrona leaders concerned

With property tax revenue up in the air for municipalities across Wyoming, Natrona County is feeling the pressure as the upcoming fiscal budget comes together.

Public SafetyTimesleader

Look Back: Fort Wintermoot fire was a decoy prior to the 1778 Battle of Wyoming

Of the eight or nine forts and a number of blockhouses that lined the Susquehanna River from Hanover to Exeter in the 1770s, one was a loyalist stron...