Wyoming Radio News

A Wyoming state lawmaker plans to push a bill in the 2014 legislative session to shorten the school year. Amy Richards reports. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is asking gray wolf hunters to participate in a harvest survey now underway...

A man suspected in an elaborate, multi-state bank scam has pleaded guilty in Casper. For agriculture producers, 2014 may be a bit of a letdown, according to an economist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

A Casper teen may be able to avoid prison, after admitting to a string of cabin break-ins on Casper Mountain. The USDA and Bison producers are conducting the first ever survey to learn more about different aspects of the industry.

People who park at the Rock Springs-Sweetwater County Airport may be asked to make a monetary donation soon. One of the country's largest producers of gun magazines is moving it's operations to Wyoming and Texas. Amy Richards reports.

Campbell County Memorial Hospital is implementing restrictions on visitors because of an increasing number of flu cases. Amy Richards reports. Wyoming's Deputy Attorney General is reminding residents that despite the legalization of marijuana in Colorado, the drug remains illegal in Wyoming...

The Casper/Natrona County Public Health Department has named a new director, Doctor Kelly Weidenbach. Ice anglers are being warned to be cautious on the ice this winter. Amy Richards reports.

Winhealth announced that a new partnership with the Billings clinic in Montana will further expand it's primary network beyond Wyoming's borders. Amy Richards reports. The first phase of construction on the Gillette College Rodeo Agriculture complex is underway...

BLM and Forest Service officials have released the Draft Wyoming Sage-Grouse Management Land Use Plan Amendment/Draft Environmental Impact Statement. Backcountry users in Northwestern Wyoming and Eastern Idaho are being warned to be careful after two avalanche deaths...

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is seeking volunteers to help count bald eagles in the Powder River Basin.

Beginning in January, hunters will be required to use an online application process to apply to hunt in Wyoming. The owner of U.S. Bentonite in Casper says he hopes to be back in business soon, after the mining company filed for bankruptcy and laid off 40 people...