Wyoming News

A customer in Gillette won't face criminal charges after accidentally depositing an envelope of marijuana at a local bank.

A Gillette woman felt the agony of defeat on Monday morning after she drove over her own foot while attempting to corral her dog.

A single car accident early Sunday morning on Interstate 80 east of Cheyenne killed at 17-year-old Carpenter girl, according to a spokesman for the Wyoming Highway Patrol.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Gov. Matt Mead says it appears likely that state agencies won't face more spending cuts in the two-year budget cycle that begins next year. Mead says he's informed state lawmakers that state agencies won't honor their request to present proposed spending cuts of up to 6 percent at legislative committee hearings this summer...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A University of Wyoming official is crediting the school's scholarship opportunities with the university's 4.9 percent federal loan default rate, well below the national average of 13 percent. Financial Aid Director Joanna Carter says 42 percent of UW undergraduate students take out federal loans, compared with about two-thirds at most colleges...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A judge in Casper has sided with the state of Wyoming and ruled against environmentalists who sought to make public the lists of ingredients that go into hydraulic fracturing fluids. Natrona County District Judge Catherine Wilking says Wyoming's state oil and gas supervisor was correct to withhold the ingredient lists as protected trade secrets...

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — Dry and windy conditions have increased the fire danger across lower elevation areas of Wyoming. The Associated Press reports that several agricultural burns have gotten out of control in the upper Wind River Basin...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming company is mulling a project to store power generated by a Platte County wind farm. Winhyne Energy Group hopes to begin testing the nine-turbine wind project at a site near Guernsey by late 2014. The Casper Star-Tribune reports the energy stored would be used to power turbines during times of low wind...

September 11, 2001: It’s the day no American will ever forget. Lt. Col. Robert Darling was with the vice president and national security advisors beneath the White House during the attacks of 9/11, giving him a unique perspective far beyond the media reports and documentaries attempts to convey  what happened during the worst terrorist attack in history on U...