For a little over two decades, Craig Dougherty has led Sheridan County School District #2 as superintendent. And now he's retiring. Dougherty began his teaching career in Alaska, moving to Montana to teach on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. He came to the Sheridan County School District as an assistant superintendent. Wyoming Public Radio's Catherine Wheeler spoke with Dougherty about his unique impact on the school district. He begins by describing what it was like when he first took over as superintendent in 2000.

The new telestroke services help VA providers when a veteran comes into the Sheridan VA urgent care with stroke-like symptoms.

After the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service started hazing a famous grizzly and her two cubs, the public believes the bears will be killed by the agency. Grizzly 863, also known as Felicia, has been living in an area of Togwotee Pass for the past six years. She has become a popular bear since she can be viewed near the highway.

Johnson County is facing a new hurdle as it tries to receive more than $20 million in back-taxes from a coal-bed methane producer.

HerdDogg is an ag-tech innovator located in Laramie. The company's traceability program offers Bluetooth animal tags that enable the producer to develop data sets that can be linked to a physical QR code. That code can be accessed on a smartphone much like a menu at a restaurant.

Grady Kirkpatrick spoke with South Dakota native and The Artisanals frontman Johnny Delaware about the release of their new album Zia.

Wyoming projected over a $1 billion in revenue losses due to COVID-19, but it turns out the state could be looking at close to $1.5 billion in new state and federal money.

High-elevation forests in the Rocky Mountain region are burning more now than at any point in the past 2,000 years. That's according to a new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon objects to recent move by the Biden Administration to reverse a Trump-era rule change.

The state of Wyoming will receive more than $3 million to go towards education as part of COVID-19 relief funds. The Wyoming Department of Education recently submitted its plan on how that money will be used.

The Trump administration moved BLM headquarters away from Washington, D.C. Now the Biden administration has to decide whether to move it back.

The digital divide in the Mountain West stretches across vast swaths of rural, urban and Native lands and disproportionately affects residents in low-income brackets and people of color. But as federal pandemic relief dollars start flowing into state coffers, the cash is opening up opportunities to dramatically expand broadband access in Western communities and beyond.

One of the only things federal lawmakers can agree on these days is that telehealth should be remain a fixture in the U.S. health care system.

As tourism booms and crowds grow, the Navajo Nation considers reopening its parks and some states charge non-residents more for entry.

As the Western U.S. steels itself for another summer of dry, fire-prone conditions, some are turning their attention to recovering from last season's blazes.

The yes vote comes a day after the Senate unanimously moved to recognize June 19 as a commemoration of the end of chattel slavery in the United States.

Some institutions have dropped the name Columbus Day or switched to celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day. One New Jersey school district came up with a new solution: eliminate all holiday names.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with The Root producer Felice León about colorism and the lack of dark-skinned Afro-Latinx representation in the film In the Heights.