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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is officially recognizing ‘conservation’ as one of the multiple uses of land it oversees, and it’s controversial with lawmakers in Wyoming.
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The Wyoming Game and Fish Department will soon see a change in leadership.
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Some tribal residents on the Wind River Reservation are concerned that a new law could allow Wyoming to take over jurisdiction of land within the reservation. But legislators say that wasn’t the law’s intent, and that tribal lands won’t be affected.
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King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom ruled for less than a year. He abdicated the throne in 1936 in order to marry American divorcee Mrs. Wallis Simpson.
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Lawmakers packed the Capitol's historic courtroom Monday to consider possible interim issues ranging from artificial intelligence's impacts on society to abortion access, water to the affordable housing shortage.
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The Biden administration is restoring protections for threatened wildlife that had been previously dropped during the Trump presidency. The changes are minor, but they’ve sparked fierce debate about the purpose and function of the Endangered Species Act.
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Gov. Mark Gordon is calling a proposal for a coal-fired power plant to install carbon capture technology a win for Wyoming — if it proves economically beneficial.
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The Bureau of Land Management is planning about a dozen prescribed burns in Wyoming this year in an effort to mitigate future fire risk.
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Offering visas for sale to the highest bidder is a controversial approach to managing immigration in the United States. Economist Julian Lincoln Simon favored the idea in a 1985 paper on the subject.
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Secretary of State data show there are nearly 90,000 fewer registered voters in Wyoming today than there were two years ago. That's because Wyoming law requires county clerks to remove the names of voters who did not vote in the most recent general election of 2022.
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The House voted 27 to 35 against returning to Cheyenne this summer, while the Senate voted 16 to 15 in favor of the idea.
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Both suicides and overdose deaths remain high in Wyoming, according to new statistics provided by the state's Department of Health.
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One of the few remaining structures at a former Japanese internment camp in Northwest Wyoming is one step closer to being restored.
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Fifteen years after the EPA said greenhouse gasses are a danger to public health, the agency finalized rules to limit climate-warming pollution from existing coal and new gas power plants.
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A majority of justices appeared skeptical of granting a president blanket immunity from prosecution for criminal acts, but it is unclear whether the court would act swiftly to resolve the case.
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"They risked everything to feed people they did not know," the chef and founder of the humanitarian group said of the seven aid workers who were killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza.
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Hundreds of protesters were arrested in Boston, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas, on Wednesday and into Thursday. Students continue setting up new encampments, including at Princeton and Northwestern.
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A grand jury in Arizona has indicted a slew of Trump allies for their efforts to try to keep him in power after the 2020 election. Arizona is now the fourth state where "fake electors" face charges.
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The influential website faced multiple defamation suits over conspiracy theories about 2020 election fraud that it's accused of promoting.
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Federal officials and scientific experts say the virus detected in retail milk samples may be inactive and unable to cause an infection.
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At issue is a clash between federal and state law about how pregnant women must be treated in the emergency room.
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Taylor Swift, whose latest album is now the first to surpass one billion Spotify streams in a single week, has smashed another record as well.
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UNICEF says one child is injured or killed in Gaza every 10 minutes. This is the story of a 12-year-old boy shot by Israeli forces while he was trying to get food aid.