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In the first of multiple cases against the state-run facility for delinquent boys, some but not all claims of civil rights violations have been cleared for trial. #wyomingnews #wyomingboysschool #justice wyofile.com/judge-denies...
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Judge denies qualified immunity to Wyoming Boys' School staff in abuse lawsuit - WyoFile
In the first of multiple cases against the state-run facility for delinquent boys, some but not all claims of civil rights violations have been cleared for trial.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 55m
The Legislature’s Joint Labor, Health and Social Services Committee on Friday moved to draft legislation that would bump the limits of allowable personal assets and monthly personal spending, which haven’t kept up with inflation. #wyomingnews #medicaid #nursinghomes wyofile.com/lawmakers-mo...
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Lawmakers move to ease financial constraints for nursing home patients on Medicaid - WyoFile
Legislative committee to draft a bill that would bump personal spending and asset allowances for first time in decades.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 4h
Amid growing animus toward Flock-style cameras in Wyoming, state lawmakers have begun discussing legislation that would severely restrict the technology’s use in the Equality State. #wyomingnews #flock
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Wyoming lawmakers could pursue some of the nation’s strictest limits on Flock-like cameras - WyoFile
Draft legislation would severely restrict the technology's use in the Equality State.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 6h
OPINION: The Pentagon’s call for a new large-scale military base gives Wyoming an opportunity to buck the commodity roller coaster, writes guest columnist David Giralt. #wyomingnews wyofile.com/wyoming-shou...
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Opinion | Wyoming should compete for America’s next great base — on our terms
The Pentagon’s call for a new large-scale military base gives Wyoming an opportunity to buck the commodity roller coaster, writes guest columnist David Giralt.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 7h
Photo Friday: MLB in Grand Teton? We found seven existing or recent baseball diamonds in that park and in Yellowstone — at Moose, Moran, Old Faithful, Mammoth, West Thumb, Canyon Village and Fishing Bridge. We’ve got the pictures! #wyomingnews #mlb #grandteton #yellowstone
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Baseball in a national park? We found 7 ball fields at Grand Teton and Yellowstone. - WyoFile
Turns out, the field of nightmares proposed in Grand Teton National Park wouldn’t be unique.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 9h
The Wyoming Institute of Population Health released its 2026 Suicide Fatality Review last week. The review analyzed suicide cases in order to provide recommendations that can translate into meaningful community impact in Laramie County. #wyomingnews #suicide #ruralhealth
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A new suicide fatality review sheds light on prevention efforts in Laramie County - WyoFile
Social isolation, intimate partner problems and family relationship stress were the top three risk factors found by the Laramie County Suicide Fatality Review team.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 01/10/2026
Major League Baseball “will not continue to evaluate Grand Teton National Park as a potential site,” for a game, Commissioner Robert Manfred told local officials in a letter Thursday. #wyomingnews #mlb #grandteton
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MLB won't play ball in Grand Teton National Park - WyoFile
Major League Baseball “will not continue to evaluate Grand Teton National Park as a potential site,” for a game, Commissioner Robert Manfred told local officials in a letter Thursday.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 01/10/2026
The Wyoming Supreme Court upheld the state’s crossover-voting ban Thursday, ruling that the 96-day period in which voters are prohibited from changing party affiliation ahead of Election Day does not violate their constitutional rights. #wyomingnews #wyomingelections wyofile.com/wyoming-supr...
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Wyoming Supreme Court concludes crossover-voting ban is constitutional - WyoFile
The ruling clears the way for November’s general election to proceed with party-affiliation restrictions in place.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 01/10/2026
OPINION: The lackluster recovery of the Sublette Pronghorn Herd after the killer winter of 2022-23 whispers of trouble on the range, writes guest columnist Chris Madson. #wyomingnews #pronghorn #winter wyofile.com/the-plight-o...
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Opinion | The plight of the pronghorn: Part 2
The lackluster recovery of the Sublette Pronghorn Herd after the killer winter of 2022-23 whispers of trouble on the range, writes guest columnist Chris Madson.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 01/10/2026
OPINION: Stories — built from relationships with one another, with our environment, with a higher power — make us who we are and write the legacy we leave behind, columnist Walt Gasson reflects. #wyomingnews #relationships wyofile.com/things-that-...
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Opinion | Things that last
Stories — built from relationships with one another, with our environment, with a higher power — make us who we are and write the legacy we leave behind, columnist Walt Gasson reflects.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 01/10/2026
A century after John D. Rockefeller Jr. launched his conservation effort, which ultimately expanded Grand Teton National Park, another billionaire has plans to intervene in the management of a landscape that now draws millions of visitors every year. #billionaires #grandteton #conservation
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Billionaires in the wilderness - WyoFile
Private-sector wealth wants to save Greater Yellowstone. But for whom?
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 01/10/2026
New effort to develop “The Confluence" resort is one of several recent business moves by the TD Ameritrade founder, who also bought the Rim Station and Timberline Ranch near Merna. Upper Hoback neighbors remain skeptical of the billionaire’s plans. #wyomingnews #billionaire #greateryellowstone
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Billionaire Joe Ricketts resurrects plans for luxury Bondurant resort after ‘Saving Yellowstone’ accolades - WyoFile
New effort to develop “The Confluence" is one of several recent business moves by the TD Ameritrade founder, who also bought the Rim Station and Timberline Ranch near Merna.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 01/10/2026
Out of the maw of negotiations that tied EMTs, residents and county officials in knots, the parties hammered out a deal to extend first-responder services through a private company until local governments can assume management. #wyomingnews #emergencyservices #strike
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Fremont County avoids EMT strike after extending contract - WyoFile
The new two-year deal buys time to shift first-responder services under local government control while addressing employee needs, parties say.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 30/09/2026
U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming blocked a bipartisan-backed resolution Tuesday denouncing President Donald Trump for using tax dollars to pay for campaign-style television ads. The ads have come under fire by congressional members of both parties. #wyomingnews
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Lummis blocks Senate resolution criticizing Trump’s taxpayer-funded TV ads - WyoFile
The retiring senator from Wyoming argued the campaign-style ads are no different than PSAs from past administrations.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 30/09/2026
OPINION: Herds typically experience a reproductive bounce after a difficult winter. But that trend might not always remain, writes guest columnist Chris Madson. #wyomingnews #pronghorn #winter wyofile.com/the-plight-o...
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Opinion | The plight of the pronghorn: Part 1
Herds typically experience a reproductive bounce after a difficult winter. But that trend might not always remain, writes guest columnist Chris Madson.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 30/09/2026
OPINION: The Heritage Foundation touts classical curriculum as the cure for America’s future. But columnist Jessica Brauer, an alumna of the classical system, sees herself as far from the conservative think tank's ideal case study. #wyomingnews #heritagefoundation #schoolchoice
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Opinion | What my classical education actually taught me
The Heritage Foundation touts classical curriculum as the cure for America’s future. But columnist Jessica Brauer, an alumna of the classical system, sees herself as far from the conservative think ta...
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 30/09/2026
The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily revived a controversial federal database that Wyoming and other states have uploaded their voter lists to, clearing the way for the Trump administration to use the information to verify voters’ citizenship ahead of November’s election. #wyomingelections
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Wyoming elections chief applauds Supreme Court's ruling on controversial voter data system - WyoFile
The Trump administration has used the SAVE system to identify noncitizens voters on rolls.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 30/09/2026
The department had been running a largely flat budget for about a decade, but the cost of diesel fuel, vehicles and the need to increase salaries to attract top employees has been driving up costs. From Powell Tribune #wyomingnews #gamenadfish #inflation wyofile.com/dire-financi...
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‘Dire’ financial situation: Game and Fish interim director warns of future severe budget concerns - WyoFile
The cost of diesel fuel, vehicles and salary increases to attract top employees has been driving up costs.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 29/09/2026
An attorney for April Morganroth told a judge there is reasonable cause to believe that she has a mental illness or deficiency. A judge must now decide whether to order a mental evaluation for the former journalist, who’s also been accused of fabricating quotes. #wyomingnews
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Mental evaluation sought for Wyoming journalist accused of forgery - WyoFile
An attorney for April Morganroth told a judge there is reasonable cause to believe that she has a mental illness or deficiency.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 29/09/2026
Stunted vegetation in the Green River Basin doesn’t bode well for pronghorn and other species surviving the coming winter. While migratory animals fared better and put on fat, those that dwell year-round in the lowlands struggled to the point of starvation. #wyomingnews #wyomingwildlife #drought
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Malnutrition killed Wyoming pronghorn in peak summer as vegetation withered during record heat, severe drought - WyoFile
Stunted lowland vegetation in the Green River Basin doesn’t bode well for one of the state’s premier herd's survival the coming winter.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 29/09/2026
OPINION: Rebecca Bextel, the activist who ignited Wyoming’s “Checkgate,” is now running for governor. While columnist Kerry Drake believes she will lose big, he’s forever thankful she contributed to the Freedom Caucus’ implosion. #wyomingnews #checkgate #elections
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Let’s thank the politician who helped drive the Freedom Caucus out of power - WyoFile
After Checkgate, far-right Rebecca Bextel is stirring things up as the Constitution Party’s candidate for governor, columnist Kerry Drake writes.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 29/09/2026
Wyoming's behemoth trona mining and soda ash industry — its largest global export commodity — needs to "make some noise," one CEO says. The industry that records $1.3 billion in annual exports is in jeopardy, and it's going to need federal help to compete with China. #wyomingnews #sodaash
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A flood of Chinese soda ash has Wyoming's industry swimming in troubled waters - WyoFile
Though plans to expand the state's trona mining and soda ash industry have stalled, they're essential to surviving a fundamentally altered global market, one CEO says.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 28/09/2026
Gillette renters’ money is going to landlords likely based outside Wyoming, according to a Gillette News Record analysis of property data. #wyomingnews #landlords #privateequity #housing
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Out-of-state companies have swallowed up Campbell County housing rentals, records show - WyoFile
Gillette renters’ money is going to landlords likely based outside Wyoming, according to a Gillette News Record analysis of property data.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 28/09/2026
OPINION: This election season is a time for all Wyomingites to not only vote, but help strengthen our system to be more inclusive and accessible to all voters, writes the Equality State Policy Center board of directors. #wyomignews #2026elections
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Opinion | Your democracy needs you
This election season is a time for all Wyomingites to not only vote, but help strengthen our system to be more inclusive and accessible to all voters, writes the Equality State Policy Center board of ...
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 28/09/2026
The gnarled, spindly and not-very-tall whitebark pine began growing in Paintbrush Canyon at the same time as the Siege of Constantinople and shortly before vikings began raiding Europe. #wyomingnews #whitebarkpine #grandteton
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1,289-year-old whitebark pine, oldest on record, found in Grand Teton National Park - WyoFile
Beetles killed the tree in 2021. It had been growing since 732 A.D.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 28/09/2026
Data has shown that Wyoming kids often end up in the state’s adult judicial system, where the goal is punishment rather than treatment, training and rehabilitation. What determines when Wyoming kids can be treated like adults in court? #wyomingnews #juvenilejustice #criminaljustice
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When can Wyoming children be treated like adults in court? - WyoFile
Data has shown that Wyoming kids often are treated as adults in the state’s judicial system.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 28/09/2026
The news shot around Grand Teton National Park like the crack of a well-hit baseball echoing off Cascade Canyon. The Trump administration is scouting the park for a site to play a Major League Baseball game. When WyoFile did its own scouting, visitors panned the idea. wyofile.com/grand-teton-...
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Grand Teton National Ballpark? Visitors call it a field of nightmares. - WyoFile
Park visitors greet news of a potential MLB game in front of the Tetons with disbelief.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 25/09/2026
Federal agents detained Feride Bardakci at a bus stop Sept. 15 for allegedly overstaying her student visa. After learning of Wyoming community’s support, she plans to contest her removal. From Jackson Hole News&Guide #wyomingnews #ice
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After ICE arrest, Jackson restaurant worker’s community springs into action - WyoFile
Federal agents detained Feride Bardakci at a bus stop Sept. 15 for allegedly overstaying her student visa. After learning of Wyoming community’s support, she plans to contest her removal.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 25/09/2026
Roberts beat a Freedom Caucus-aligned lawmaker for a House seat and is soon headed to Cheyenne. The outgoing commissioner spoke to WyoFile about the recent Game and Fish turmoil, agency morale and navigating controversies. #wyomingnews #molliespack #codyroberts #freedomcaucus
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 25/09/2026
OPINION: Let’s celebrate the past, but more importantly, let’s make sure we’re securing the future, writes guest columnist Sam Mead. #wyomingnews #publiclands
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Opinion | Celebrating the Wyoming way of life on Public Lands Day
Let’s celebrate the past, but more importantly, let’s make sure we’re securing the future, writes guest columnist Sam Mead.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 25/09/2026
Photo Friday: A photo of discarded wind turbine blades being buried at a local landfill moved Casper sculptor Chris Navarro. The "Windborne" art installation transforms an industrial byproduct into something functional and inspirational, he says. #wyomingnews #photofriday #art #windturbine
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Bucking the wind: Wyoming artists transform wind blade into snowfence - WyoFile
The "Windborne" art installation transforms a discarded wind turbine blade into function inspiration, Casper artist says.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 25/09/2026
President Donald Trump last week ordered federal land managers to boost public access to public lands, including to landlocked parcels in Wyoming and to Western whitewater rivers. #wyomingnews #publiclands #cornercrossing
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Trump orders plans to unlock isolated public land, revise river-trip permitting - WyoFile
The efforts are contained in a push to bolster hunting heritage.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 24/09/2026
OPINION: President Trump pitched $5,000 to each American adult citizen as a ‘dividend,’ but let’s not pretend to be fooled, writes columnist David Romtvedt. #wyomingnews #trump #elections wyofile.com/what-a-bribe/
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Opinion | What, a bribe?
President Trump pitched $5,000 to each American adult citizen as a "dividend" if Republicans win, but let’s not pretend to be fooled, writes columnist David Romtvedt.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 24/09/2026
Liberty Counsel is defending a church on the Wind River Indian Reservation that’s embroiled in controversy after its pastor delivered a sermon urging Native congregants to renounce Northern Arapaho traditions. #wyomingnews #windriverchurch #pastorsarahlucas
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Who is the Christian legal group representing the Wind River church embroiled in sermon controversy? - WyoFile
Amid tribe’s call for banishment, Florida-based Liberty Council says Foundations for Nations church “will not be leaving its property.”
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 24/09/2026
El Nino could mean less wind for our notoriously blustery state. It could also produce above-average snow in the southern part of the state and below average in the north, "It's hard to do worse" than last winter without El Nino, a Wyoming meteorologist says. #wyomingnews #elnino #wyomingwinter
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What will 'super' El Nino bring to landlocked, parched Wyoming? - WyoFile
While poised to wreak havoc across the globe, El Nino might mean a closer-to-normal Wyoming winter after a wild, snowless one last season.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 24/09/2026
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is weighing pros and cons of feeding wildlife, which could lead to more chronic wasting disease. That’s raising questions about health risks beyond the herd. #wyomingnews #wyomingwildlife #CWD
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National Elk Refuge fields questions about what feeding elk could mean for Jackson Hole’s water - WyoFile
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is weighing pros and cons of feeding wildlife, which could lead to more chronic wasting disease. That’s raising questions about health risks beyond the herd.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 23/09/2026
OPINION: Humans yearn for a place that has meaning, that connects us to the earth and to our people, writes columnist Walt Gasson. #wyomingnews
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 23/09/2026
The Wyoming Judicial Branch says it’s awaiting more details regarding the scope of a cybersecurity breach of a third-party software company once used by the Wyoming Supreme Court and state district courts. It may have included data from cases between 2015 and 2025. #wyomingnews #cybersecurity
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Wyoming courts investigate extent of personal data exposed in cybersecurity breach - WyoFile
While the breach of third-party software did not impact the judicial branch’s current internal system, data from certain cases between 2015 and 2025 may have been exposed.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 22/09/2026
Backers of the proposed Alkali Creek Dam near Hyattville expect to condemn ranch property if landowners don’t agree to sell easements necessary for construction and operation of the troubled project, letters shared with WyoFile show. #wyomingnews #eminentdomain
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Backers of troubled Alkali Dam project threaten condemnation of private land - WyoFile
Water district sends “final offer” to landowners, saying it expects to “reluctantly initiate eminent domain proceedings” if offers are declined.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 22/09/2026
Powerful Wyoming organizations are teaming up to challenge a grassroots effort to cut property taxes. The campaign seeks to convince voters that it’s worth supporting local services instead of making further tax cuts. With KHOL 89.1 FM #wyomingnews #propertytax
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Teachers, hospital leaders launch $1M campaign to fight property tax ballot measure - WyoFile
Effort comes after 30,000 Wyomingites supported a 50% statewide tax break.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 22/09/2026
WyoHistory.org editors Kylie McCormick and Leslie Waggener revisit the chaotic 1891 night when a clerk’s “wet ink” note sparked accusations of fraud, vote buying and a political meltdown in Wyoming’s first Legislature. #wyomingnews #wyominghistory #legislativenews wyofile.com/wet-ink-the-...
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History | Wet ink: The forgery accusation that nearly wrecked Wyoming’s first Legislature
WyoHistory.org editors Kylie McCormick and Leslie Waggener revisit the chaotic 1891 night when a clerk’s “wet ink” note sparked accusations of fraud, vote buying and a political meltdown in Wyoming’s ...
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 22/09/2026
OPINION: Sen. John Barrasso is known for his frequent television appearances. But when he had an opportunity to defend the freedom of the press, Wyoming’s senior senator backed President Trump over the First Amendment, columnist Kerry Drake writes. #wyomingnews #barrasso #trumppressban
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Opinion | Barrasso loves attention from the media, but not protecting press freedoms
Wyoming’s U.S. senator backs President Trump’s ban on news outlets that say negative things about administration, columnist Kerry Drake writes.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 22/09/2026
Voters finally felt the threat to public lands had reached a critical point, observers say. From High Country News #wyomingnews #publiclands #election #freedomcaucus
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Wyoming chooses public lands at the ballot box - WyoFile
Voters finally felt the threat to public lands had reached a critical point, observers say.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 22/09/2026
Yellowstone National Park’s last original wolf pack, Mollie’s Pack, emerged unscathed from a Wyoming hunting season that opened last week and has already closed. The famous pack made headlines for leaving the safety of its longtime territory in the park. #wyomingnews #molliespack
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No Mollie’s Pack, Yellowstone wolves killed, state reports after hunt area’s quick close - WyoFile
Hunters fill a four-wolf limit in just four days, closing down two hunt areas for the season and sparing a wandering wolf pack.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 22/09/2026
Authorities don’t yet know what prompted the attack, which has caused concern within the broader Sikh community. The Sweetwater County prosecutor cautioned against making assumptions about the case.
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Sikh truck driver stabbed at Wyoming rest stop, suspect faces attempted murder charge - WyoFile
Authorities say there is no known motive for the attack, which has caused concern within the broader Sikh community.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 21/09/2026
In case you missed it: A new lawsuit accuses the TD Ameritrade founder’s former agent and a Star Valley developer of conspiring to run up costs, rig appraisals and falsely suggest that the U.S. Forest Service was interested in a land trade. #wyomingnews #billionaire #landswap
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Wyoming billionaire Joe Ricketts alleges he was defrauded out of $34 million in failed federal land swap - WyoFile
New lawsuit contends that TD Ameritrade founder’s former agent and a Star Valley developer conspired to run up costs, rig appraisals and falsely suggest that the U.S. Forest Service was interested in ...
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 21/09/2026
Though global engineering giant Bechtel was expected to see the ambitious nuclear power project through to completion, it wasn't able to reach an agreement with Bill Gates-backed TerraPower. Still, "construction in Kemmerer will maintain its current schedule," the company says. #wyomingnews #nuclear
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Lead contractor pulls out of Gates’ Natrium nuclear power plant project in Wyoming - WyoFile
TerraPower says construction will continue as planned as it seeks a new contractor, with its in-service date of 2031 intact.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 21/09/2026
OPINION: Guest columnist Paul Hansen, a first-time election judge, reflects on his experience and looks ahead to November’s general election. #wyomingnews #electionjudge
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Opinion | How Election Day looks from the inside
Guest columnist Paul Hansen, a first-time election judge, reflects on his experience and looks ahead to November’s general election.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 21/09/2026
University of Wyoming faculty told WyoFile they remain optimistic, if not cautiously so, about President Shane Reeves’ stance on academic freedom after Reeves was named in a federal lawsuit that accuses him of firing a West Point professor for teaching about climate change. #wyomingnews
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University of Wyoming optimistic on academic freedom despite censorship lawsuit naming new president - WyoFile
Faculty leadership largely back Shane Reeves in wake of litigation stemming from his time at West Point.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 19/09/2026
Authorities don’t yet know what prompted the attack, which has caused concern within the broader Sikh community. The suspect faces an attempted first-degree murder charge, and the Sweetwater County prosecutor cautioned against making assumptions about the case. #wyomingnews
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Sikh truck driver stabbed at Wyoming rest stop, suspect faces attempted murder charge - WyoFile
Authorities say there is no known motive for the attack, which has caused concern within the broader Sikh community.
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