Wyoming news

UNLV head coach Dave Rice calls for a new player against Colorado State during their Mountain West Conference game Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 at the ...

MISSOULA -- A 36-year-old Helena man accused of using investors' money to fund his personal lifestyle has been sentenced to two years in federal prison and must pay more than $1.2 million in ...

HELENA -- State and union negotiators met with a mediator Friday, but didn't reach a settlement yet over the union's request for a pay raise for 300 Department of Transportation ...

DENVER -- The federal government's new plan for oil shale development on public lands would keep activity off thousands of acres of environmentally sensitive areas, with new leases initially ...

HELENA -- The Montana Department of Corrections on Friday retracted its request for bids to build a new 120-bed medium-security prison -- just a week after originally saying the new multimillion ...

Contract negotiations between the local United Steelworkers International union and the ExxonMobil refinery in Lockwood are ongoing, with the third extension in less than a week allowing them to ...

Mark Hamill and U.S. Sen. Jon Tester share a laugh as they have their picture taken after Hamill was award medals he earned in Iraq during Desert Storm and Desert Shield. The medals were presented ...

Arrowhead Elementary School health and physical education teacher Jerry Weik, right, passes the ball to student Michael Richmond as Anthony "Ant" Atkinson of the Harlem Globetrotters ...

Judge E. Wayne Phillips sits on the bench in the 10th Judicial District, which hears cases for Fergus, Judith Basin and Petroleum ...

A Miles City medical marijuana provider who is awaiting sentencing on federal drug crimes is facing state allegations of having sex with a minor. Justin Lane Flor, 34, appeared in Custer County ...

The Beartooth Ranger District is seeking public comment on the issuance of a special-use permit requested by Black Wolf Mototours of Red Lodge for aone-day motorcycle ride on July 1. The event ...

The Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge's proposal for a federal reserved water rights compact with the state of Montanawill be the topic of two public workshops Feb. 13-14 in ...

HELENA --Wendy's International has a beef with a franchisee that owns 11 fast-food restaurants in Montana, Oregon and Washington. The Dublin, Ohio-based corporation last month asked a ...

HELENA -- Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock says the Ennis School District improperly used taxes levied for adult education and transportation costs to build a $9 million grade school. ...

HAMILTON -- A trio of co-conspirators who defrauded Montana's Medicaid system received three years of probation each and must reimburse more than $10,000 to the state. Hilda Sue Towe -- now ...

KALISPELL - Flathead County officials have released the name of the back country skier who died in an avalanche in the Jewel Basin Hiking Area near Bigfork. Forty-two-year-old Mark Albee of ...

A Musselshell County sheriff's deputy is facing a misdemeanor charge of improperly transporting livestock. Fergus County Attorney Tom Meissner, who is prosecuting the case, said Friday that ...

MISSOULA -- The U.S. Forest Service wants to speed up work on national forests, for both timber production and forest health. "Collaboration is most effective in getting forests managed in a ...

HAMILTON -- The defiant attitude of a man who stole a tiger pelt earned him a tougher sentence in Ravalli County District Court on Wednesday. District Judge Jeffrey Langton gave Mitchel J. Gouse, ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo.-- Investigators in Laramie County say they found two people dead in a trailer damaged in a suspected arson fire. Laramie County Sheriff's Office spokesman Gerry Luce says the ...