Sweetwater County

Very few know about Wyoming’s biggest export and how it’s produced. And yet, there’s a mini-underground world below the desert of Green River. Wyoming Public Radio brings you an audio tour of trona mining.

The trona and soda ash industry could be hurt by retaliatory tariffs. If so, Wyoming’s bottom line could take a hit.

Sections of southwest Wyoming’s iconic sprawling sagebrush landscape could soon look different: No wild horses. That’s because the Bureau of Land Management is planning to remove all of the wild horses roaming a 2.1 million acre area near Rock Springs.

James Kincaid moved his family over 1,000 miles to join Wyoming’s mining sector and nab a resident elk tag. Two months later, he was laid off.

A mine safety office in Green River is on the list. There are conflicting reports and details have been hard to confirm.

The letter comes as the Trump administration ramps up deportations and is anticipated to request or demand assistance from local law enforcement to carry out federal policies, a duty long considered outside the scope of practice in places like Teton County.

Wyoming lawmakers Cody Wylie and J.T. Larson have filed a defamation lawsuit against the Wyoming Freedom PAC, claiming the group falsely accused them of voting to remove Donald Trump from the ballot.

In case you missed it over the holidays, the federal government released its final decision for how to manage millions of acres of public land in southwest Wyoming. The plan is over a decade in the making. Reactions from state politicians are very unhappy. Many are looking to a Trump administration for relief, but that route isn’t clear.

Soda ash is Wyoming’s largest export. It’s in things like baking soda and glass, and it comes from the mineral trona. The industry relies on trona miners in Sweetwater County, but many are without jobs this week due to layoffs at Genesis Alkali.

At least 30 Genesis Alkali workers in Sweetwater County received notice that they’ll be laid off by early December. The company said it’s because of a downturn in the soda ash market, but workers are shocked because some of them were just hired.