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The department's Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) grants are allocated to communities large and small and are being used to construct year-round, multi-use pathways. It comes as as interest in them is on the rise. This is addition to other funding initiatives that are managed by WYDOT aimed at improving the state's transportation network.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is spending nearly $200 million to reduce wildfire risk to communities nationwide, including many parts of the Mountain West.

As natural disasters strike the Mountain West, rural communities face some barriers to recovery. But they can’t always get their hands on climate resilience funding.

The Interior Department is spending nearly $85 million to help communities in the West tackle challenges brought on by drought, and many of the projects are in the Mountain West.

Federal lawmakers on Tuesday heard from tribal and border patrol representatives in a hearing on how the opioid crisis is impacting Indigenous communities. Some witnesses advocated for the federal government to fully fund various Indigenous health services and one called for border policies that would stop the flow of drugs into these communities.

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 Wyoming Department of Workforces Services reports that workers have received more than $42 million in unemployment insurance benefits since the…

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Legislation making its way through the U.S. Congress would significantly increase funding for roads in national parks.The national parks maintenance…

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