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CASPER — Ten organizations are seeking money and services from the city of Casper during the spring round of community promotions funding. That money is doled out by the Casper City Council to an...

CASPER — Wyoming’s drunken driver reporting program resulted in more than 700 arrests last year, according to figures released Monday by the state Highway Patrol. More than 7,200 people called ...

Austin Eby, 9, plays a game of table tennis with his friend Reno Bolden, 10, at the Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming on Monday afternoon in Casper. The club is one child-care option for parent...

CASPER — Like it or not, property owner Ed Corrigan lives in a nation, state and county with a longstanding legal system, a district judge told him Monday. “We have the right to life, liberty a...

CHEYENNE — One of the interim studies authorized by legislative leaders last week will focus on a higher tax on gas and diesel fuel. The fuel tax may be considered as an alternative to the failed...

CASPER — Prosecutors charged a Casper woman with assault and battery Monday after police say she spraying tear gas at her soon-to-be ex-husband’s 25-year-old girlfriend. The incident is alleged...

MISSOULA  — A woman is dead after a crash on Highway 93, Montana Highway Patrol officials say. Patrolman Shad Andersen said the collision happened Sunday afternoon, when a wheel came off a singl...

HELENA — Tea party leaders in Montana have some advice for lawmakers when they come to town for next year’s 2011 Legislature: Try to cut general-fund spending by about a billion dollars. Trimmi...

A 24-year-old Billings man accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy was charged Monday in Yellowstone County Justice Court. James Jay Gauna appeared before Judge Larry Herman by video from...

Veteran coordinates volunteers for fire clean up A local veteran brings volunteers together to help clean up debris from a fire that destroyed the home of Steven Butler on February 15, 2010.

IDAHO FALLS - With a turn out of more than a thousand people, Monday's job fair in Idaho Falls could be considered a success. But just how helpful are these kinds of fairs? Many job-seekers are fr...

CHEYENNE — The Wyoming Air National Guard will not host the air power air show in July. Among the factors influencing the decision to cancel this year’s show are deployments, construction affec...

CHEYENNE — About half of the Laramie County Community College employees who completed a recent survey indicated a lack of trust and confidence in the school’s leadership. A campus council is sc...

CODY — Nearly a century after oil was discovered in Oregon Basin, companies are still working to find new reserves there, and to find new ways to recover untapped oil from wells drilled decades a...

Dwain Haggard’s high school history lesson on Friday backfired. Haggard, who used to be a Civil War reenactor, was showing the five students in Reed Point High’s American history class his repl...

The City Council Monday night killed a Fire Department plan to buy two small quick-response vehicles after strong opposition from some residents and leaders of the firefighters’ union. The counci...

Stephanie Steingraber, guest services supervisor at the Billings Clinic, stands near wheelchairs that are used at the clinic. The specialty chair at left holds up to a 700-pound person. The one at cen...

DILLON — The state Board of Regents has approved a $500,000 deferred-compensation package for Montana State University’s new president. In a 5-2 vote Friday, the regents approved a plan in whic...

Billings businesswoman Terri Jabs Kurth, who is serving federal time for a drug conviction, along with some of her friends and other residents testified Monday they bought cocaine from Domingo Baez...

IDAHO FALLS – It wasn't your everyday job fair. Each year, Idaho Falls Mayor Jared Fuhriman holds events for businesses and job seekers to network and further their contact base. Monday wa...