Wyoming Government News

A The 61st Wyoming Legislature will convene in a Joint Session of the Wyoming Senate and House of Representatives this morning at 10 a.m., during the first day of legislative proceedings of the 2012 Budget Session.

A LARAMIE, Wyo. Two groups of University of Wyoming track and field student-athletes put their names in UW's record book Friday, competing in two states.

The governors of Wyoming and Colorado are teaming up with the head of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to chair a task force dedicated to protecting sage grouse.

The Teton County School District #1 Board of Education this week adopted calendars for not one, but two coming years - both reflecting a traditional nine-month school year.A Superintendent Pam Shea says the final schedules were created with A input from both faculty and parents.A Shea says both school years ease in with three, then four and finally ... (more)

PAVILION, Wyo. - On the mountainous Wind River Indian Reservation in western Wyoming, cattle grazing in a valley share space with more than a hundred gas wells.

Ozone-forming air pollution measured along the Colorado Front Range by scientists is up to twice the amount that government regulators have calculated should exist, according to a new study.

A federal oil and gas lease sale in Cheyenne brought in more than $22 million for the federal government and state of Wyoming.

Federal officials investigating a pipeline break that spilled 1,500 barrels of oil into a Montana river said Wednesday that few companies take river erosion and other risks into account when evaluating pipeline safety.

Five University of Wyoming wrestlers will take part in the last home dual of their careers Wednesday as the Cowboys host conference foe Northern Colorado.A Action begins at 7 p.m. in the UniWyo Sports Complex versus the Bears.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has named several state legislators and state Republican officials to his leadership team for Wyoming.

The Bureau of Land Management plans to offer more than 150 parcels of land for oil and gas leasing in Wyoming in the spring.

Sex offenders wouldn't be able to live near Wyoming child care facilities under a proposal from a Bridger Valley lawmaker.

Alyssa Alt digs her car out of the snow in Denver on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, after a snow storm dumped 10 inches of snow overnight.

Allow us to re-introduce you to the octogenarian congressman who's currently perched atop the catbird seat in the oversight hearings every fracker in America is watching with bated breath.

Group formed to encourage Wyomingites to buy local Expanding the mission of "Think Wyoming First," formed last year to give in-state companies priority on major construction projects, on Thursday, "307 First" was launched to promote consumers to buy locally produced goods and to hire local companies to provide services.

The National Weather Service said snow was falling at 2 inches an hour on the Eastern Plains, producing some blizzard conditions.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in no way contends that a draft report on groundwater pollution in Wyoming could apply to hydraulic fracturing in any other part of the U.S., an EPA official told a U.S. House subcommittee.

Tuesday, Jan. 31, beginning at 8 a.m., maintenance crews from the Colorado Department of Transportation will perform guardrail repair work in the center median of Interstate 25 between mile marker 289 and MM 290 north of Wellington and south of the Wyoming border.

Wyoming safety regulators have issued 19 citations for an explosion and fire that killed three workers near an oil well last year, an example of the trouble that has plagued a state that consistently records some of the nation's worst workplace fatality rates.

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says investigators have found a convicted killer pardoned by former Gov.