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An enormous tornado with a debris cloud two miles wide tore through the metropolitan area just south of Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon.

UPDATE 9:28 p.m. EST: At least 51 people were killed in the storm, including seven children from Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, according to KFOR in Oklahoma City. The news station reported that 75 student and staff were inside the school when the storm struck. Officials said Monday night that the search of the rubble remaining of the school had turned to a recovery mission.

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The Wyoming Transportation Commission  awarded contracts totaling $35.7 million for eight highway projects around the state Commission during its May meeting in Cheyenne.

Oftedal Construction of Casper submitted the low bid of $12

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Governor Matt Mead says the Governor's Council on Impaired Driving is launching a statewide campaign to reduce drunk driving related fatalities and injuries in wyoming.

The Governor says the new multimedia campaign is " hard hitting and specific to Wyoming

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Police are investigating a homicide that occurred late Sunday night in the city of Laramie.

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The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. was unchanged last week according to oil field services company Baker Hughes Inc. Doug Randall reports. This year's boy scout elk antler auction in Jackson brought in a record $131,400 in sales. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News. 

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The Wyoming Department of Transportation just announced that they will be delaying the opening of U.S. 14A from Burgess Junction to Lovell.

The road was scheduled to open today, Monday, May 20 at 12 PM, however due the inclement weather on the mountain we will delay the opening until tomorrow Tuesday, May 21 at 12 PM. Thi

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An official with the Cheyenne Police Department says that while an environmental analysis of the property the city wants to use for a new Public Safety Building didn't raise any red flags, some further testing for environmental hazards will be needed before the purchase of the property can be finalized

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A spokesman for the Sweetwater County Sheriff's Department  says a new telephone scam involving the bogus delivery of medical equipment has been widely reported.

Dick Blust says the scam begins with a recorded phone message telling the intended victim that their "medical adviser" has approved a "medical appliance" for the person which needs to be delivered

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SHERIDAN, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is reminding people who find young animals this spring to leave newborn wildlife alone even if they appear to be abandoned.

The agency says most animal mothers hide their young and return to them periodically to nurse

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~~~~By Frosty Wooldridge ~~~~

How do you kill a country?  Answer: kill its language for starters.

The great philosopher Emanuel Kant said, “The two great dividers are: language and religion.”

Over the

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