The first-of-its-kind nuclear power plant slated for the Kemmerer area has received a key federal construction permit. It was issued about nine months quicker than expected.

"By adding these professional firefighters, paid firefighters, to these modules, that helps augment that lack of coverage during that daytime responses which will help in those critical areas," Fire Chief Jason Caughey said.

Steve Pearce, a former Republican congressman from New Mexico, would next need to clear a vote in the full Senate in the coming weeks to be confirmed.

The Utah congressional delegation introduced a resolution to undo the Biden-era management plan for the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, employing a rarely used law that's never before been used to target a national monument.

Researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno, have received a $9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study an unlikely candidate for future fuels: cactus pear.

One is a resolution calling on the federal government to increase the share of royalties Wyoming earns off of mining and drilling on federal lands. The other modernizes laws about subleasing state grazing land.

The act would set aside funds to support agricultural initiatives in a newly created trust. Representatives expressed concern about redundancy.

A slew of energy- and climate-related bills are before Wyoming lawmakers this year. Many aim to support fossil fuels.

The discovery in the Nevada desert could make a big difference to consumers in the future.

The team, led by a Boise State University civil engineering researcher, looked at half a million wildfire starts, and hundreds of attributes about them. Beyond the obvious weather variables like wind speed, temperature and humidity, they also considered human factors like density of development.