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Send this Headwaters page to a friend or colleague: Two Elk coal-fired power plant in Wyoming moves forward After more than 10 years of struggling to obtain proper permits and financing to build a coal-fired power plant near Wright, Wyoming, the Colorado-based Two Elk Generation Partners say they are on track to have final construction contracts ...

Contracts totaling more than $18.2 million for 11 highway projects around the state were awarded by the Wyoming Transportation Commission during its March meeting in Cheyenne.

An environmental group in KOTA Territory filed a lawsuit to stop construction of a power plant.

After almost a month of delay, the lodging tax board finally will be able to get started at the end of January.

Insulated from the harshest effects of the housing bust, and buoyed by an abundance of energy and agriculture, five contiguous rural states have the lowest U.S. unemployment rates.

Col. Richard Knowlton, commander of the Wyoming Army National Guarda s 115th Fires Brigade, will talk Wednesday about the April deployment of soldiers in the Campbell County area.

Highway funding, Workersa Compensation, carbon sequestration and water for Gillette are a few of the issues that the Campbell County delegation to the state Legislature will wrangle with this year.

Denna Lawrence, a senior flutist from Wright High Junior/Senior School, also was picked for the All-Northwest group.

RAYMOND POTTS, Will face aggravated vehicular homicide charges in District Court.