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Wyoming First Lady’s initiative awards $150K to fight food insecurity

Wyoming First Lady’s initiative awards $150K to fight food insecurity

Wyoming First Lady Jennie Gordon’s Hunger Initiative is helping local organizations fight food insecurity. More than $150,000 in grants have been awarded to 47 nonprofits across the state. The funding will help expand services and improve...

Wyoming Football Coach Jay Sawvel Optimistic for 2025 Season

Wyoming Football Coach Jay Sawvel Optimistic for 2025 Season

Wyoming head coach Jay Sawvel is eager to move past last season's 3-9 record as the Cowboys prepare for their season opener against Akron. With enhanced coaching staff continuity and key player acquisitions, Sawvel emphasizes it's time to prove...

Wyoming PBS Foundation receives $500K challenge grant from Hughes Charitable Foundation

Wyoming PBS Foundation receives $500K challenge grant from Hughes Charitable Foundation

Riverton, Wyo. - As Wyoming PBS celebrates its ongoing commitment to statewide storytelling, the Foundation has received a generous $500,000 challenge grant from the Hughes Charitable Foundation to establish the Legacy of the West Endowment. This...

Wyoming rooftop solar installers are busier than ever. But demand could plummet Jan. 1

Wyoming rooftop solar installers are busier than ever. But demand could plummet Jan. 1

Electrician Andrew Weatherford scrambled up the utility stairs of the Albany County Courthouse. He popped on the roof where several rows of black solar panels glistened. “So they're angled a little bit so they can get the best production,” said...

Wyoming’s Godwin Mercado opens as year-round market and event hub

Wyoming’s Godwin Mercado opens as year-round market and event hub

A new $5.8 million produce marketplace opened in Wyoming with plans to offer space for local farmers and food makers to connect with the public year-round. Godwin Mercado, located at 301 36th Street SW, is the latest addition to Site 36, a 75-acre...

MAGACOIN FINANCE, Ethereum & VET Forecast as 5 Best Altcoins for 2025 Growth Cycle

MAGACOIN FINANCE, Ethereum & VET Forecast as 5 Best Altcoins for 2025 Growth Cycle

With the 2025 cryptocurrency heating up, investors are intensifying their search for the best altcoin to buy now. The reason is simple. A slowdown in the market is a strategic opportunity for crypto investors and traders to accumulate breakout...

Fed chair Powell hints at rate cut as inflation and jobs pressure economy

Fed chair Powell hints at rate cut as inflation and jobs pressure economy

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hinted on Friday that a key interest rate could be lowered in the coming months, but gave no indication of when, implying that the central bank will proceed cautiously while assessing the impact of tariffs and...

How Good Can This Wyoming Offense Really Be?

How Good Can This Wyoming Offense Really Be?

LARAMIE -- How good can this Wyoming offense really be? Kaden Anderson didn't hesitate. "I tell the O-line, 'Just give me three seconds and we can really carve some people up,'" the sophomore quarterback said on Monday. "We've got talent...

City of Cheyenne seeks community input on sustainability plan

City of Cheyenne seeks community input on sustainability plan

Cheyenne, Wyo. - The city of Cheyenne is working on a sustainability plan; Prospering Together: Laramie County's Path to a Sustainable Future. "No matter what anyone's philosophy was, it all boiled down to we want our kids to prosper, we want our...

Powell revises policy framework for evolving economy

Powell revises policy framework for evolving economy

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday opened the door ever so slightly to lowering a key interest rate in the coming months but gave no hint on the timing of a move and suggested the central bank will proceed cautiously as it continues to...

“It was the best case scenario”: Wyoming journalists discuss the closure, and rescue, of 8 newspapers

“It was the best case scenario”: Wyoming journalists discuss the closure, and rescue, of 8 newspapers

The state’s news ecosystem experienced earthquakes this month. Wyoming Public Radio thought it might be a good time to take the temperature of journalism across the state. Wyoming Public Radio’s Melodie Edwards sat down for a conversation with...

Fire Truck Pull fundraiser to benefit Special Olympics Wyoming

Fire Truck Pull fundraiser to benefit Special Olympics Wyoming

Cheyenne, Wyo. - This unique event is a fundraiser to benefit Special Olympics Wyoming athletes. On August, 23 2025, it's the ultimate tug-of-war challenge, and a GREAT team-building event! Gather a team and play "tug of war" with a fire truck....

Akron Notebook: Wyoming Not Disregarding New-Look Zips

Akron Notebook: Wyoming Not Disregarding New-Look Zips

LARAMIE -- Buzzsaw. Ambush. Blitzkrieg. Whatever you want to call it, Wyoming walked into last August in the Arizona desert. Kenny Dillingham sent out the warning: This isn't the same ol' Sun Devils. Boy, was the young head coach right about that....

Jackson is home to a lab researching brain diseases like ALS

Jackson is home to a lab researching brain diseases like ALS

When you think about brain disease research, you might not think of Wyoming. But in Jackson, across from a grocery store and a rafting company on Highway 89, a nonprofit lab is researching diseases like Alzheimer's and ALS. It’s called Brain...

‘It's the job of the newspaper to hold up the mirror to the community’: A conversation with the couple who rescued 8 Wyoming newspapers

‘It's the job of the newspaper to hold up the mirror to the community’: A conversation with the couple who rescued 8 Wyoming newspapers

A couple of weeks ago, a media company that owned dozens of newspapers across the region suddenly collapsed. It forced eight Wyoming papers to shut down. The outcry statewide was immediate. But, a week later, the owners of the Buffalo Bulletin...

University of Wyoming launches fund to support Wind River tribal students

University of Wyoming launches fund to support Wind River tribal students

Students from the Wind River Reservation will soon have additional financial support to attend the University of Wyoming. The university’s Board of Trustees has established the Wind River Promise Fund, a $2 million endowment with $250,000 in...

Property tax cuts are a mixed bag for this Wyoming mayor

Property tax cuts are a mixed bag for this Wyoming mayor

In recent legislative sessions, Wyoming lawmakers passed bills to cut property taxes, including a 25% cut to single-family homeowners and the expansion of a property tax refund program. There could be even bigger cuts down the road. In 2026,...

WyoPreps Preseason Football Tour: Wyoming Indian Chiefs [VIDEO]

WyoPreps Preseason Football Tour: Wyoming Indian Chiefs [VIDEO]

The fifth stop on the WyoPreps Preseason Football Tour was in Ethete earlier this week to visit the Wyoming Indian Chiefs. The program won two games last season, but it has also experienced two winless seasons in the past four years. Wyoming...

A Wyoming legal legend passes

A Wyoming legal legend passes

RIVERTON — One of Wyoming’s most famous sons, a man who fought to represent people against major corporations and the government and never lost a criminal case, passed away Aug. 13. From hunting with his dad outside of Sheridan to fighting battles...

Cowboy state heat: Wyoming ranchers report on Red Canyon, Sleeper Ranch fires

Cowboy state heat: Wyoming ranchers report on Red Canyon, Sleeper Ranch fires

Two different Wyoming fires have burned pasture, fences and more. But reports indicate no loss of human life, no significant structure loss and very few, if any livestock have been killed. Red Canyon Fire The Red Canyon fire has burned about...

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