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Incident commanders Don Whittemore said Tuesday that count is based on a survey of half of the 7,100-acre fire area. Authorities have previously said that dozens of homes were destroyed in the fire th...

Harold Ernst of Colusa, Calif., talks with police officers on Tuesday, September 7 after Ernst drove his pickup pulling his fifth wheel trailer into the 21st Street underpass near Montana Avenue. The ...

HELENA — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the protection of the Montana arctic grayling is warranted, but it won't be listed as an endangered or threatened species because other species tak...

She faces six counts of narcotics violations for the drugs she's accused of bringing to the medium-security prison in June. Authorities say a random search of Welch and her vehicle turned up marijuana...

CASPER — Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson is apologizing for comparing Social Security to a milk cow but some critics still want him removed from President Obama’s deficit commission.The Wyoming Repu...

JACKSON — A retired surgeon and rancher from Cheyenne has failed to qualify to run an independent candidate in Wyoming’s governor’s race.Taylor Haynes submitted a petition this week to be listed...

CASPER — Gov. Dave Freudenthal has increased the amount of sage grouse habitat that will be protected in Wyoming.On Wednesday Freudenthal issued an executive order revising one he issued in 2008. It...

and Ryan W. Dupree filed a federal lawsuit in Cheyenne challenging the Wyoming law that defines marriage as existing only between a man and a woman. They are asking U.S. District Judge Alan B. Johnson...

CHEYENNE — Wyoming is a long way from places where sugar cane is grown, but a test plant in the northeast part of the state will soon be turning sugar cane waste into biofuel.KL Energy Corp., based ...

CASPER — El Paso Corp. didn't expect the backlash it got for striking a deal with environmentalists over a Wyoming-to-Oregon gas pipeline, a company spokesman said.El Paso subsidiary Ruby Pipeline L...

LARAMIE — Classes at the University of Wyoming started this week and the school expects to see a 2 percent increase in enrollment.That would put UW’s on- and off-campus enrollment at more than 13,...

CHEYENNE — The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees has approved a supplemental budget request.The trustees held a telephonic conference on Tuesday and agreed the university will ask the Legislat...

CHEYENNE — Driver’s licenses in Wyoming are getting a new look.The Wyoming Department of Transportation says it will begin issuing the new driver’s licenses, identification cards and concealed w...

PINEDALE — A father-son team of sheriffs is a possibility in western Wyoming.Stephen Haskell of Big Piney, the son of Sweetwater County sheriff Rich Haskell, is now one of two independent candidates...

Yellowstone’s grizzlies are going to be particularly hungry this fall, and that means more dangerous meetings with humans in a year that is already the area’s deadliest on record. Scientists repor...

LARAMIE — Rankings make a difference for some students when they’re picking a college.The University of Wyoming moved into the first tier of ranked national universities in the 2011 edition of “...

HELENA — The chief executive officer of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana is retiring after 36 years with the company. Sherry Cladouhos announced Tuesday she planned to retire before the end...

Stillwater Mining Co. is buying Marathon PGM Corp. for $118 million to gain control of the Canadian company's Ontario precious metals reserve and other properties, the companies announced Tuesday. ...

Some state and county officials say they're unhappy with Duke's decision to appeal the property tax assessments of more than $40 million on the projects.

Interim election administrator Brett Rutherford completes a test of ballot counting machines as workers open ballot envelopes at the Yellowstone County Courthouse on Tuesday.