Cheyenne News Staff
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Wyoming Air Guard Members Will Receive Reminders of Home [AUDIO]
U.S. Senator Mike Enzi says the application deadline for Fall 2013 page positions is June 5th. The 160 members of the recently deployed Wyoming Army National Guard's 133rd Engineering Company will be receiving regular reminders of home. Doug Randall reports.Click past the jump to listen to live Wyoming Radio News. [
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Fracking Bill Introduced In Congress [AUDIO]
A bill called the ''Fracturing Responsibility and Awareneness of Chemicals Act" has been introduced in congress. Deborah Smith, with Wyoming News Service, has a report. The Wyoming Rural Development Council will hold a workshop to train new community assessment team members. Amy Richards reports. Click past jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.
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Program Launches New “Hear This Wyoming” Campaign [AUDIO]
The Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming office released the proposed list of parcels for the quarterly competitive lease sale in Cheyenne on August 6th. The Wyoming Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program has launched a new awareness campaign called "Hear This Wyoming." Doug Randall has the details. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.
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Game And Fish Taking Mountain Lion Comments [AUDIO]
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is taking public comment on proposed mountain lion hunting quotas and rules. Amy Richards reports. Marc Wall, the U.S. Pacific Command's Foreign Policy Adviser and a former U.S. Ambassador to Chad is the new Senior Visiting Scholar in Global Studies at the University of Wyoming. Click past jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.
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Developer Drops Plans For Coal Export Terminal In Oregon [AUDIO]
A developer has dropped plans for a coal export terminal downstream of Portland along the Columbia River and will look for another site in the Northwest. A former apartment manager now has to payback money that was not hers. Kevin Koile reports. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.
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State Engineer: More Calls on North Platte Water Rights Likely [AUDIO]
The Wyoming State Engineer's office expects more calls on water rights in the North Platte River drainage in the months ahead despite heavy snowfall in the river's headwaters. Doug Randall has more on that story. University of Wyoming student Maggie Moran was chose as one of 21 recipients of the college women's leadership award. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.
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State Considering Lithium Development Policies [AUDIO]
In light of the discovery of lithium in Sweetwater County, the state is considering how to move forward on regulating development of the resource. Amy Richards has a report. After dropping for several years the rate of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has remained fairly level for the last few years. Deborah Smith of Wyoming News Service has a report. Click past jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.
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Senators Trying to Get Severance Tax Money Restored [AUDIO]
Senators from Wyoming and New Mexico say the will sponsor a bill that would restore about $110 million in cuts to a federal minerals payment program that hit their states the hardest. Doug Randall has the story. Holly Frontier Corporation reported a better first quarter in March this year than the same quarter an year ago. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.
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Black Hills Power To Sell Power Generation unit to Gillette [AUDIO]
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Mead Meets With Gun Company CEO [AUDIO]
A Florida who claims that Sheriff's Deputies in western Wyoming violated his rights when they detained him for carrying a handgun has appealed a judge's dismissal of his lawsuit. Amy Richards has details. Governor Matt Mead says he met Monday with Phillip Howe, the CEO of gun manufacturing company Hiviz, which last week announced it was moving it's core operations from Colorado to Laramie. Click past jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.