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Wyoming looks to replenish emergency funds and prepare crews for future fire...
Gov. Gordon and State Forester Kelly Norris talk with officials at pre-fire season press conference (Jordan Uplinger / WPR)The 2024 fire season has been described as “historic,” “expensive” and “a...
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A Casper resident got a double surprise in his garage recently. The Casper College Chinook reports Brian Wagner found a rare baby two-headed snake. He donated it to Professor Charlotte Snoberger for...
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Parents sue state to halt eight Cheyenne schools from closing
A plaque on Deming Miller Elementary School noting its 1945 construction. Lawsuit plaintiff Franz Fuchs has two children who will (or would) attend Deming — but a planned overhaul of Cheyenne schools...
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There’s enough snow. Yellowstone’s winter season is open
Mt. Haynes is near the Madison River in Yellowstone National Park.(NPS / Jacob W. Frank)This story is part of our Quick Hits series. This series will bring you breaking news and short updates from...
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With a helicopter, Teton County Search and Rescue more than doubles missions...
(Dante Filpula Ankney / Jackson Hole Community Radio)With less than an hour until takeoff, six volunteers slipped into harnesses and insulated layers at a hanger overlooking Jackson. Carabiners, slings...
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Teton County commissioners punt decision on new natural resources overlay plan
(Dante Filpula Ankney / Jackson Hole Community Radio )An updated planning tool could change how the county protects natural resources, like wildlife and water, from development. But only if county...
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With heavy hearts, Albany County school board votes to close the UW Lab School
A climbing rock on the playground in front of the UW Lab School. The school board says they'd like to find a way to bring the kind of outdoor education that the Lab School used to the entire school...
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President Theodore Roosevelt was a man comfortable on horseback. In each of his three visits to Wyoming in the early 1900s, he set aside time in his schedule to ride.His first visited Wyoming in 1900....
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The Valley Service Organization’s Giving Tree was rendered tagless just ten days after going up. The Saratoga Sun reports children from Saratoga and Encampment, as well as some nursing home residents,...
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Going into 2025, Food Bank of Wyoming looks local to combat increasing food...
Neighbor and volunteer stories + photos/video interviews + general mobile pantry photos( Food Bank of Wyoming)The price of groceries was a big talking point in this year’s election, and high costs of...
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Could the iconic Christmas tree be in trouble because of warmer temperatures?
A Christmas tree farm in Rainier, Washington — one of the top producers of these firs. <br/>(Karla Salp / Wyoming State Department of Agriculture)We see them every holiday — towering green...
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Wyoming governor will lead national education policy organization starting in...
( picserver.org)This story is part of our Quick Hits series. This series will bring you breaking news and short updates from throughout the state.Gov. Mark Gordon will chair the Education Commission of...
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Winter has arrived in the Tetons! Here’s how to get outside in GTNP
(Hannah Habermann / Wyoming Public Media )This story is part of our Quick Hits series. This series will bring you breaking news and short updates from throughout the state.Some classic spots in Grand...
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Museum Minute: Native American artist uses bright colors to paint portraits...
A painting depicting a man with a white headdress with red buffalo horns. He wears a blue and orange striped shirt with a black vest, a blue and pink bandana, and wears two yellow bands around his...
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Gov. Gordon goes forward with Kelly Parcel sale as he protests the BLM’s Rock...
A man sits on a horse near an aspen grove on the Kelly Parcel.(REED MATTISON / REED MATTISON )The U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) proposal for managing development and conservation on 3.6...
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A local business is helping its owners, the community, and people across the world. The Kemmerer Gazette reports that Perspicacity’s Whim’s is taking in wedding dresses and donations to support the...
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Congress protects access to rock climbing anchors in the wilderness
(Hanna Merzbach / Wyoming Public Media )Rock climbers are rejoicing after Congress passed an act Thursday protecting outdoors access — specifically the way climbers get down from rocks in wilderness...
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It’s a rough time for movie theaters. But they’re still the center of...
Washakie Cinemas on a Thursday night in Worland — a Wyoming town of less than 5,000 people. The theater reopened in recent years and community members say they’ve thankful for the much-needed...
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Hunters tag fewer elk on refuge
Wildlife biologist Amy Girard peers into an empty head barrel. She removes the head to take samples later used to track diseases like Chronic Wasting disease or CWD, in the herd.(Dante Filpula Ankney /...
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Forty-five Wyomingites died in the workplace in 2023
(Wyoming Department of Workforce Services)This story is part of our Quick Hits series. This series will bring you breaking news and short updates from throughout the state.Eleven more Wyomingites died...
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