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Recidivism rates in the U.S. are some of the highest in the world. And in Wyoming, 33 percent of inmates are back in prison within the first year. But studies show that animal therapy can help reduce that by teaching things like responsibility, nonviolence and empathy. Wyoming has a special program – one of only five in the country – that teaches inmates how to tame wild horses.

Indigenous people were using horses in our region way earlier than previously thought. This comes from new research with contributions from a University of Wyoming (UW) anthropology graduate.Originally, the narrative was that horses made their way to Wyoming around the 1700s.

An article in the journal Science provides new research that Indigenous people were using horses in the American West much earlier than previously thought. The research has major contributions from a University of Wyoming (UW) graduate’s own research. Cassidee Thornhill earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in anthropology from UW. Wyoming Public Radio’s Kamila Kudelska spoke with Thornhill about her research.

The cost of goods has increased in America by about nine percent over the last year, which is the largest increase in 40 years. It has affected the price of everything, including groceries, gas, clothes and hay, an essential good for livestock in our region.

The Canon City facility southwest of Colorado Springs, which is currently holding roughly 2,500 horses, has been under a voluntary quarantine since Monday. Horses rounded up last fall in the West Douglas area near the Utah border have been the hardest hit.

The Bureau of Land Management has decided to open up a public comment period about the overpopulation of wild horses in Fremont County.

On Friday, Jan. 17, 40 horses from the Fifteenmile Herd Management Area will be up for adoption in the state's first wild horse adoption of the year in…

The Wyoming Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is proposing a multi-year wild horse gather in Southwest Wyoming. The herds in these areas have exceeded their…

The sun was just rising as a group of people struggled out of their cars and start getting their things put together. We are about 35 miles northwest of…

Reducing the number of wild horses and burros on Western public lands could take 15 years and cost $5 billion , the acting director of the Bureau of...