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Mountain West Releases 25th Season Teams for Outdoor Track & Field
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Mountain West Conference has announced its 25th season team for outdoor track & field prior to this week's conference championships. Wyoming had four former student-athletes on the list along with current Head Coach and Associate Head Coach of the Track & Field program, Bryan Berryhill and Quincy Howe.
Lummis Blasts EPA Administrator For Damage Done To Wyoming
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Lummis grilled Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Regan during an Environmental and Public Works Committee hearing on this administration’s outrageous FY2025 Budget and the deluge of EPA regulations that undermine American energy and impose unrealistic electric vehicle (EV) mandates. “Instead of...
Laramie Residents Get Free Landfill Vouchers for Spring Cleaning
Grab your rakes and gardening gloves, Laramie. Spring cleaning season has arrived; with the arrival of Spring weather, many Laramie residents have begun preparing for the annual clean-up of their yards. The City of Laramie wants to help residents tidy up their yards with a free voucher for the city...
Rain, Snow In SE Wyoming Ahead Of Warm Weather This Weekend
It looks like a couple of more days of wet weather are in the forecast for Southeast Wyoming residents through Thursday, ahead of much warmer weather over the weekend. That's according to the Cheyenne Office of the National Weather Service. The agency posted the following on its website:. Rain will...
Laramie Proposal To Pave Way For Apartments Defeated In Council
A proposal to favor terminating a lease on the 1st Street parking lot to pave the way for a new apartment complex to be built at that location was voted down by a 6-3 margin on Tuesday night by the Laramie City Council. That vote means the project will not...
More Details Released On Tuesday Albany County Safety Alert
UPDATE 11:30 a.m. May 8: The Albany County Sheriff's Office released more details on a Tuesday afternoon incident that prompted issuing a Public Safety Alert. The details include the name of the fleeing suspect from Colorado who prompted the alert and who was found dead in an apparent suicide. The...
1 Dead After Pickup T-Bones Car in South Cheyenne
A 65-year-old Colorado woman was killed in a T-bone crash in south Cheyenne on Saturday afternoon, May 4, according to the Wyoming Highway Patrol. The crash happened around 4:18 p.m. at the intersection of College Drive and South Greeley Highway. According to a fatality crash summary, a Toyota Tacoma was...
86 Mile Per Hour Wind Recorded In Southeast Wyoming
You are right if you think it's been windy in southeast Wyoming and the Nebraska Panhandle the last couple of days. Below is a listing of some of the top wind gusts recorded by the Cheyenne Office of the National Weather Service in the 24 hours before 8:30 p.m. on Monday:
Extreme Wind: Prepare For 70mph Gusts In Southeast Wyoming
Southeast Wyoming can expect more windy weather today, with winds of 70 miles per hour or more expected. That's according to the Cheyenne Office of the National Weather Service. The agency included the following in a special weather statement:. While the strongest winds have passed, west wind gusts 60-70 mph...
Caleb Driskill Leads Wyoming’s ‘Hybrid Crew’ into 2024
LARAMIE -- "The Hybrid Crew." The slogan plastered across Caleb Driskill's T-shirt really says it all. While the Gillette product has been known throughout his tenure at Wyoming as a road grader, paving the way for running backs like Xazavian Valladay, Titus Swen and Harrison Waylee, his versatility has been on display this spring.
PhotoFest: Thermopolis Track Meet
The Bobcat at Invitational Track Meet on Friday in Thermopolis was one of the larger events on the track schedule this season with 17 schools participating. The Worland girls took 1st in the team standings with 165 points, Powell was 2nd with 135, Kemmerer 3rd with 74, Big Piney took 4th with 53, and Thermopolis 5th with 47 points.
Cowgirls Fall to Tulsa in NIT Quarterfinals
BRADENTON, Fla., – The Wyoming Cowgirl tennis team’s season concluded Monday afternoon in the quarterfinals of the UTR NIT Championship, losing 4-0 to Tulsa. After dropping a hard-fought doubles point to the Golden Hurricane, the Cowgirls (16-11) lost at the No. 4 through 6 singles positions to lose the contest. Wyoming was leading at the first and second singles matches after winning the first set, before the match was ended once Tulsa clinched. Sophie Zehender and Noesjka Brink each won their first sets, 6-3.
Wyoming Battles BLM Over New Energy & Migration Rules
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is in charge of more than 18 million acres of public lands in Wyoming. The BLM is drawing criticism from Gov. Mark Gordon and the oil and gas industry over new rules for that land. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D.,...
Univ. of Wyoming Cancels Black 14 Social Justice Summer Institute
On October 17, 1969, fourteen African American players were unceremoniously dismissed from the University of Wyoming football team by then-head coach Lloyd Eaton. The players wanted to make a statement at the next day's game against BYU, a school viewed by the players as racist due to the school's ties to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The players wanted to wear black armbands to protest the LDS policy of not allowing African Americans to become priests.
Hurricane-Force Wind to Blast Southeast Wyoming Through Wednesday
Wind gusts of 70 to 80 mph are expected to blast much of southeast Wyoming today through Wednesday, the National Weather Service in Cheyenne says. A High Wind Warning is currently in effect through 9 p.m. Tuesday for much of southeast Wyoming, including Cheyenne and Laramie, with gusts up to 70 mph expected.
2nd Annual Historic Downtown Bar Crawl Returns to Laramie
Raise a glass to the historic beauty of Downtown Laramie at the 2nd Annual Historic Downtown Bar Crawl! Presented by the Albany County Historic Preservation Board, the second iteration of the Bar Crawl returns to Laramie on Friday, May 17. Raise a Glass at the 2nd Annual Historic Downtown Laramie...
80-85 MPH Winds, Rain, Snow Possible In SE Wyoming
According to the Cheyenne Office of the National Weather Service, areas of southeast Wyoming could see winds of up to 85 miles per hour over the next couple of days. While the forecast as of Sunday morning was calling for wind speeds in Cheyenne to top out at around 65 miles per hour, Laramie could see gusts of up to 85 miles per hour.
Rollover Crash in Cheyenne Leaves 1 Dead, 1 Injured
One person was killed and another was injured in a single-vehicle rollover crash in Cheyenne on Wednesday, the Wyoming Highway Patrol says. The crash happened around 2:09 p.m. at the Interstate 25/Interstate 80 interchange. According to a fatality crash summary, the driver of a Ford Ranger had just exited I-25...
Wyoming Man Killed in Rollover Crash in Northern Wyoming
The Wyoming Highway Patrol says speed may be to blame for a single-vehicle rollover crash that left a 49-year-old Wyoming man dead. The crash happened around 2:38 p.m. on Tuesday, April 30 at milepost 107.9 on Wyoming 32 near Byron, a small town in Big Horn County. According to a...
Gary Crum Announces Run For Wyoming State Senate
A Laramie businessman and former University of Wyoming football star says he is running for the Wyoming Senate as a Republican. Gary Crum says he is running as a Republican for Senate District 10. That seat is currently held by Republican Senator Dan Furphy, who is not running for re-election.
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