Wyoming Government News

A Jackson Hole pathways project received $170,000 in grant funding, officials announced this week.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is deferring the auction of controversial oil and gas leases in the high desert Adobe Town area in southwest Wyoming.

Some key Wyoming legislators say the Hathaway Scholarship Fund won't stretch as far as it does now if a tuition hike is approved for the University of Wyoming.

A top Wyoming official says various federal agencies gave the state conflicting instructions about how to calculate the number of jobs the federal economic stimulus program has created in the state.

Officials with Aristotle International say Wyoming had 7,723 dead people registered to vote through October and another 45,547 who have moved from the district where they are registered to vote.

Forget Halloween . It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in much of the West, where residents woke up to the first major snowstorm of the year.

For the fifth year in a row, Wyoming producers have won or placed extremely high in the World's Forage Analysis Superbowl at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis.

The Colorado Department of Transportation has closed Interstate 70 from Denver to the Kansas border because of blowing snow.The highway was shut down Thursday afternoon as a powerful wintry storm continued moving east.

Wyoming Department of Transportation public affairs officer Doug McGee says it's unlikely that Interstate 80 across southeastern Wyoming will be reopened on Thursday.

Bridger-Teton National Forest officials have released a draft plan to sell 10 acres that contain the current forest headquarters in Jackson in northwest Wyoming.

An abandoned car sits alongside Colorado Highway 93 as a winter storm continues to deposit snow throughout the state on Wednesday, Oct.

17, 2009, during the official opening of the updated airstrip now capable of handling the massive cargo aircraft.

A major early season cold front brought gusting winds and cool temperatures to the Southwest and prompted warnings of heavy snowfall and blizzard conditions in parts of Wyoming and Colorado.

Operation Shepherd 2009, spear-headed by the U.S. Marshal's Office results in 106 arrests.

Authorities in Colorado and Wyoming have arrested more than 100 people in a sex offender sweep this month.

State lawmakers from around the West are gathering in the northern Wyoming resort town of Jackson over the next few days to figure out how to get better coordinated on energy issues.

Cheyenne City Councilman Jim Brown, thinking it was time his city joined the movement to keep drivers from being distracted by their handheld cell phones, steered an ordinance banning the practice into law last month.

A plan to put toll booths on Interstate 80 in Wyoming to help pay for maintenance while also reducing congestion, hazards and traffic deaths is cruising forward.

Lawmakers in the Cowboy State have invited their neighbors to parley on energy issues, and they're putting up more than $400,000 to pick up the tab.

Joe Hudon, formerly of The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, becomes associate publisher of the Buffalo Bulletin, the latter paper reports .