Wyoming News

Unforeseen complications are slowing down the work on the renovation project of Wyoming’s Capitol and the adjacent Herschler Building. These complications will also send the base $259 million price tag climbing.

Cheyenne - LGBT marriage equality has arrived in the 'Equality State.' Wyoming on Tuesday became the 32nd US state to legalize same-sex marriage, joining six other mostly conservative states which have done so this month.

Yellowstone National Park has plans in the works to reduce its' buffalo population by up to 900 animals, one-fifth of the park's herd, by killing off those that stray outside the park this winter.

According to a new study performed by researches at Stanford University, oil and gas companies are fracking much closer to underground water sources than previously thought.

Wyoming - Last week, an eight-months pregnant teenager and her boyfriend were found murdered by a Craigslist user they'd arranged to meet for sex.

Dr. Taylor Haynes is a Republican candidate for the Governor of Wyoming. He is also selling the idea of opening Yellowstone Park for drilling. Recent seismic activity and melting roads raises concerns of a Super Volcano Eruption.

Cheyenne - Passengers on a Frontier Airlines flight from Washington DC to Denver probably thought their trip could not get much worse after their plane was diverted to Wyoming because of bad weather.

At one time, long ago, there were over 50,000 grizzly bears roaming North America. Today, there are about 1,800 grizzly bears remaining in the lower 48 states, primarily the Northern Continental Divide Population and the Yellowstone Population.

Wyoming, the nation's top coal-producing state, is the first state to reject the new educational K-12 science standards proposed by top national education groups, due to state officials disagreeing with the inclusion of global warming concepts.

Cheyenne - Two cold cases have recently been solved. In one, a 75-year-old Missouri woman has been found guilty of second-degree murder Thursday for killing her husband back in the 1970s. In the second, her husband faces charges for killing his wife and two sons.

The EPA ruled Dec. 19, 2013, that Wyoming towns of Riverton, Kinnear and Pavillion are now within the boundaries of the Wind River Reservation. The EPA also approved a tribal application for "State Status" for the reservation, which includes the towns.

With European manufacturers boycotting the sale of the drugs normally used to painlessly execute prisoners in the United States, some politicians are panicking. Now they are looking for alternative methods to kill.

Johannesburg - Jack Maseko, a 28-year-old man from Zimbabwe was recently mugged by three men in South Africa, wanting nothing but his cell phone and his dreadlocks.

Worland - A classified ad placed in a Wyoming newspaper by a mother seeking to teach her son a lesson has gone viral through social networking outlets.

The US government has announced that it will no longer list the gray wolves of Wyoming as an endangered species. This will allow the wolves to be shot on sight across the state.

Buford - The town of Burford, Wyoming was placed for sale on Thursday. In a unique twist of events, the town was posted online through an auction site with a listing time of only 11-minutes.

Buford - Buford, the smallest town in the U.S., with only one resident and his own ZIP code, was sold yesterday at auction to two Vietnamese investors who paid nine times the starting price.

Rick Santorum had an easy victory in the Republican presidential caucuses in Kansas , but front-runner Mitt Romney was victorious in the Wyoming county caucuses.

Wyoming - A "Who Done It" mystery has been brewing along I-35 to the north of Minneapolis, Minnesota. A billboard has gone up and the person responsible for it remains anonymous.

The start to the 2009/2010 college bowl season is just over 24 hours away with three games this weekend and then just 3 days off through the BCS Championship Game.

On January 5, Wyoming’s residents held a caucus, just days after Iowa’s January 3 meetings. However, results haven’t been widely publicized. If you’re dying to know who won, it’s former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.

Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and crisp, clear vistas, is starting to worry it has made itself too attractive in one respect: Convicted sex offenders from out of state are moving in, apparently because the laws are less restrictive.

Gray wolves in Wyoming get a reprieve, for now.