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A federal fugitive, wanted for interstate flight to avoid prosecution, was arrested Wednesday afternoon in Laramie.

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U.S. Senators Mike Enzi and John Barrasso, both R-Wyo., joined their GOP colleagues in sending a letter to President Obama asking that he help them get to the bottom of the recent IRS scandal. According to a Treasury Inspector General report, the IRS began targeting Tea Party and other similar conservative organizations with increased scrutiny as early as 2010

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The House Natural Resources Committee voted 28 – 13 Wednesday in favor of H.R. 957, The American Soda Ash Competitiveness Act, authored by U.S. Representative Cynthia Lummis that restores the federal royalty to 2% for soda ash produced on federal lands

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Nobody was hurt in a fire at a power plant near Wheatland. Doug Randall has the story. The Forest Service and UW's Ruckelshaus Institute will hold open houses in Laramie, Saratoga and Steamboat Springs, Colorado for the public to learn more about forest recovery. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.

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A Montana man, who was crop dusting in eastern Laramie County for Circle S Aviation, crash landed his plane this morning about a mile west of the Pine Bluffs Airport. Laramie County Sheriff's Department spokesman Gerry Luce says the pilot, identified as Mark Nardin from Emigrant, Montana was able to walk away from the crash

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Loretta Ford, the founder of the national nurse practitioner movement will be telling her story at an event on the campus of the University of Wyoming.

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The owner of  the New Jersey based credit repair and protection company Better Qualified says there is nothing wrong with credit cards if they are used properly.

But he says the cards unfortunately tempt some people to spend more then they can afford

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Federal Reserve says farm income growth slowed across the Plains and western states in the first quarter as costs increased and the drought lingered.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Mo

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Governor Matt Mead thanked the outgoing Director of the Wyoming Department of Revenue, Ed Schmidt, who is retiring and announced that Dan Noble will be the new Director, subject to confirmation by the State Senate. Schmidt has served as Direc

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) A bipartisan group of western lawmakers are pushing legislation in Washington to restore cuts of $110 million in federal mineral royalty payments to 35 states. Senators from New Mexico, North Dakota, Utah and Idaho have signed onto legislation that Sen

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