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Ken Decaria, director of government relations for the Wyoming School Boards Association, spoke against the bill, saying it sets "an extremely low bar."

The Youth Emergency Services House, or Y.E.S. House in Gillette has housed young adults ages 18-24 at the Brook Street Inn as part of their Youth Homeless Demonstration Project. Approximately 30 young people from Northeast Wyoming have been housed at the leased hotel since the program's inception in October 2021.

A legislative committee advanced a bill to expand Medicaid in Wyoming, paving the way for a familiar fight on the House floor.

The resolution sought to halt the sale of electric vehicles in Wyoming by 2035, making reference to the state's strong ties to the oil and gas industry and taking aim at what it called "the misadventure of electric vehicles."

Corporal punishment is rarely used in Wyoming schools these days, but there's still a law on the books providing immunity for teachers and administrators who use it. A new bill before the Legislature seeks to end that protection.

Medicaid expansion has become a perennial issue in Wyoming. But advocates are hoping that this year is the last legislative session they'll have to push for a bill that expands Medicaid.

Right now, if a premium cigar costs $10, you'd have to pay $2 in taxes. Under the new scheme, you'd pay just 30 cents, no matter how expensive the cigar is.

The Wyoming Division of Economic Analysis released statistics for the third quarter of 2022 which indicate that major economic drivers such as the mining and energy sectors have added jobs but still lag behind their pre-COVID figures. The leisure and hospitality and professional and business services sectors added some of the most jobs during that time. Despite gains over the last decade in diversifying its economy, the Cowboy State still ranks as one of the least economically diversified states nationally.

Emergency rental assistance programs have served tens of thousands of people and handed out hundreds of millions of dollars for things like rent and utility payments since they began during the pandemic. Now, many places in the Mountain West are no longer accepting applications because they’ve run out of funds.

The state's population rose to just over 581,000 according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics. The increase comes solely from new arrivals to the Cowboy State as deaths outpaced births among existing residents for the first time in decades.