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The Sublette County Attorney’s Office released a statement Monday, April 22, on the recent wolf incident in Daniel. This comes after the killing and alleged torture of a wolf by local Cody Roberts in late February has received international attention.
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The agency says the increases aim to boost returns to the public, curb speculation and cover potential cleanup for wells that are no longer producing.
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The recreation center in Hanna, Wyo. is struggling financially. The small town, located about 40 miles east of Rawlins near Interstate 80, is grappling with population loss and increasing expenses. For local residents, it’s an inflection point in the boom and bust economic cycle.
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Eastern Shoshone tribal member and veteran Ivan Posey recently announced that he’s running for House District 33, which includes part of the Wind River Reservation. Posey is currently the tribal education coordinator at Central Wyoming College and previously served on the Eastern Shoshone Business Council. He’ll run against current Representative Sarah Penn (R-Lander) this fall. Wyoming Public Radio’s Hannah Habermann spoke with Posey about why he’s throwing his hat in the ring.
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Some 70 West Bank-rescued dogs were flown across the Atlantic Ocean, ending up at different shelters across the country. It’s a taxing journey for any animal, but for 10 of these dogs, their trip ended here in Wyoming at The Kindness Ranch, an animal sanctuary tucked into flat, grassy lands on Wyoming’s eastern plains.
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The 2024 legislative budget session ended last month, but the impacts of the bills that passed – or died – are still being felt across Wyoming. How much do you know about this year’s session and the history of the state Capitol?
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Rosa Bonheur, a 19th century French painter and sculptor most well-known for her highly detailed depictions of animals, never visited the American West. But Whitney Western Art Museum Assistant Curator Ashlea Espinal says she developed a fascination with the place through interacting with American artists and her friendship with William F. Cody.
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The Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra's next concert will feature pieces inspired by our solar system.
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Game and Fish responded to KHOL and others public records requests Wednesday with videos of the wolf, confirming many allegations.
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An anti-communist sentiment was one of the driving features behind the film version of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. The animated, feature length movie was co-produced in Great Britain by American filmmaker Louis de Rochemont.
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A vigil to honor a young teen who was stabbed and killed at a mall in Casper is set for Thursday night.
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If Ivan Posey wins in Nov., he’ll be the only Native American representative in the state Legislature. He’s running as a conservative Democrat against Rep. Sarah Penn (R-Lander) for House District 33, which encompasses part of the Wind River Reservation.
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How do different cultures record their histories? For hundreds of years, many Plains Indian tribes created pictorial calendars called winter counts. Every year, a keeper of the history drew an image on an animal hide to record the most important event that had taken place from one winter to the next.
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In an effort to crack down on airlines that charge passengers steep fees to check bags and change flights, the Biden administration announced new regulations aimed at expanding consumer protections.
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Plaintiffs including 17-month-old boy nicknamed Woodpecker bring landmark climate litigation in South Korea, the first in Asia to get a public hearing.
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Climate change is making it harder to meet clean air goals, says the 25th annual State of the Air report from the American Lung Association.
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NPR's A Martinez speaks with photojournalist Ivan McClellan about his new book documenting Black cowboys, Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture.
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In 1963, William Lewis Moore was murdered in Alabama while on a civil rights protest walk. Silence around the murder bothered one man for years, until he campaigned to put up a marker about it.
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The case comes from Idaho, where the law banning abortions is sufficiently strict that the state's leading hospital system says its patients are at risk.
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The agency stressed the material is inactivated and that the findings "do not represent actual virus that may be a risk to consumers," but it's continuing to study the issue.
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Tesla's sales are down. It's slashing car prices and laying off staff. Yet CEO Elon Musk remains bullish on a future that's self-driving and battery-powered.
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The United States is millions of homes short of demand, and lacks enough affordable housing units. And many Americans feel like housing costs are eating up too much of their take-home pay.
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"It was not like anything I had ever seen before," Alejandro Otero says. It turned out his home was hit by debris from the International Space Station that had been circling the Earth for three years.