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The Sublette County Attorney’s Office released a statement Monday, April 22, on the recent wolf incident in Daniel. This comes after the killing and alleged torture of a wolf by local Cody Roberts in late February has received international attention.
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Austrian-American Architect Victor Gruen is credited with the development of the concept for the American shopping mall. He was an influential architect and city planner, working in the U.S. and Europe from the 1940s through the 1970s.
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Roughly half a million dairy calves were transported from seven states in the upper U.S. to calf-rearing operations in New Mexico, Arizona and Texas in 2022, according to an investigation conducted by the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), creating potential health risks for animals and people.
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Last summer, Riverton Police Chief Eric Hurtado proposed adding community service officers (CSOs) to the department to help with a high volume of calls and understaffing issues. CSOs don’t make arrests or carry a gun, but they can help with low-risk incidents like parking tickets or minor car accidents. Ideally, that frees up other officers to respond to more serious crimes.The police chief’s proposal turned into a reality at a City Council meeting in Riverton last week.
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The largest electricity provider in Wyoming is proposing rate hikes to customers again. Rocky Mountain Power, a division of the six-state utility PacifiCorp, is asking the state to approve an average of a 12.3 percent hike to its 144,511 Wyoming customers’ bills.
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The panel will discuss UW’s new Statement of Principles.
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Wyoming's only two major processing and distribution centers, located in Casper and Cheyenne, are being downsized in an effort to improve delivery efficiency in the region.
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If elected, this would be his fourth time in the Senate.
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On Saturday some roads in Yellowstone National Park will open for the summer season. Weather permitting, visitors can drive from the West and North entrances to Old Faithful as well as from Norris Junction to Canyon Village.
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A Wyoming nonprofit that operates a museum at a former internment site joins the Smithsonian networkThe Smithsonian added Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation to its network of museums earlier this month.
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The fast-food restaurant franchise Taco John’s got its start in Cheyenne in 1969. Co-founder Harold Holmes was a private pilot and often scouted locations for new restaurants by plane.
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University of Wyoming students recently elected their student body president and vice president for the next year, rejecting an alternate presidential ticket backed by the state’s far-right Freedom Caucus.
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Wyoming has received a couple of rounds of federal funds recently, amounting to about $35 million, to help with restoring land used for old coal mines.
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In an effort to crack down on airlines that charge passengers steep fees to check bags and change flights, the Biden administration announced new regulations aimed at expanding consumer protections.
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NPR's A Martinez speaks with photojournalist Ivan McClellan about his new book documenting Black cowboys, Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture.
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The case comes from Idaho, where the law banning abortions is sufficiently strict that the state's leading hospital system says its patients are at risk.
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Tesla's sales are down. It's slashing car prices and laying off staff. Yet CEO Elon Musk remains bullish on a future that's self-driving and battery-powered.
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The United States is millions of homes short of demand, and lacks enough affordable housing units. And many Americans feel like housing costs are eating up too much of their take-home pay.
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The Federal Trade Commission has voted to ban employment agreements that typically prevent workers from leaving their companies for competitors, or starting competing businesses of their own.
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The DOJ settlement goes to 139 victims of Larry Nassar, the disgraced team doctor of USA Gymnastics who sexually assaulted elite and Olympic gymnasts, after the FBI failed to promptly investigate.
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After the arrests of dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters, students across the country have erected encampments on campuses in solidarity.
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"I'm not playing with persona," St. Vincent says of All Born Screaming. "It's a really a record about life and death and love. That's it. That's all we got."
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PEN America has cancelled its annual Literary Awards ceremony after nearly half of the authors nominated withdrew in protest over the organization's response to the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza.