Latest Wyoming Headlines
All the headlines from our Wyoming Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Insurance Among Reasons Organizers End Wyoming Hot-Air Balloon Fest
Jan 29 2015 // Organizers of an annual hot-air balloon festival in Wyoming have reluctantly decided to end the event after 19 years. Mikki Smith, organizing committee president, says the 12-member panel voted unanimously Jan. 21 to end...
Wyoming Fracking Trade-Secret Justification Required Under Deal
Jan 29 2015 // A legal settlement will require petroleum companies to provide justification when they ask Wyoming regulators to withhold from the public details about the chemical products they pump underground. Last year, the Wyoming...
Committee Advances Bill To Increase Wyoming Workplace Safety Fines
Jan 23 2015 // A bill to increase penalties against Wyoming employers when safety violations result in worker fatalities has cleared its first hearing. The Senate Labor, Health and Social Services Committee on Wednesday recommended...
Wyoming Women Struck By Car Sue Bar That Served Driver
Jan 6 2015 // Two women who were struck by a car outside a Cheyenne, Wyo. bar have filed civil complaints against the bar owners arguing bar employees knowingly served alcohol to the underage driver who hit them. The Wyoming Tribune...
Wyoming Governor Names Glause Insurance Commissioner
Jan 5 2015 // Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead has selected Paul Thomas Glause as the new commissioner of the Wyoming Department of Insurance. Glause assumed the duties of commissioner on Jan. 3. The job is to regulate the insurance marketplace...
Wyoming Workplace Fatality Bill Endorsed by Lawmakers
Dec 18 2014 // Lawmakers have advanced a proposal that would sharply increase penalties when employee deaths occur because of safety violations at large companies in Wyoming, which has long been among the top states for workplace...
Cloud Seeding Can Increase Snowpack, Says Wyoming Study
Dec 12 2014 // State-funded research in Wyoming suggests that cloud seeding can increase mountain snowfall by up to 15 percent a year, has negligible environmental effects – and almost no impact on precipitation in surrounding...
Wyoming Needs More Workplace Inspections, Official Says
Dec 11 2014 // Wyoming needs to hire more workplace safety inspectors and allow police to pull over and ticket drivers not wearing their seat belts, the state’s outgoing workplace safety epidemiologist said. Wyoming had the worst...
Workers Inhaled Uranium at Wyoming Mine, NRC Says
Dec 9 2014 // Six workers at a Wyoming uranium mine inhaled the radioactive element while cleaning up a spill inside a processing building just days before the mine delivered its first shipment last year, according to the Nuclear...
Wyoming Up Nearly Double So Far From Last Year
Nov 26 2014 // Nearly twice as many people have died on Wyoming highways so far this year compared with 2013. Wyoming Highway Patrol figures show that 135 people have died as of last week this year in highway crashes. At the same point...
Hydraulic Leak Contributed To Wyoming Coal Mine Death
Nov 14 2014 // A hydraulic leak and the failure to use a safety block contributed to the crushing death of a contractor at a Wyoming coal mine. The Mine Safety and Health Administration investigated the June 6 death of 25-year-old Joshua...
$28M Verdict Upheld in Wyoming Carbon Monoxide Case
Oct 24 2014 // A federal judge has upheld a jury’s $28.2 million damage award to a woman who suffered a permanent brain injury from carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty furnace in the apartment she was renting in Casper,...
Wyoming Offers Drive Sober App
Oct 16 2014 // A new smartphone app gives people who have had too much to drink in Wyoming another way to find a ride home. The Governor’s Council on Impaired Driving announced the launch of the Drive Sober Wyoming app this past...
Federal Grant Goes To Minimize Flood Risk in Wyoming City
Sep 30 2014 // The U.S. Department of Commerce has given Cheyenne, Wyo. a grant for a storm sewer project that should help minimize the risk of flooding downtown. The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported the department’s Economic...
Leavitt Group in Montana Taps Macy, Fellows, Schermerhorn
Aug 28 2014 // Brian Macy, Brett Fellows and Wendy Schermerhorn have joined joined Leavitt Great West Insurance Services in Billings, Mont. Macy will focus on commercial insurance for the oil, gas and hospitality industries. Fellows is...
Wyoming County OKs Settlement in Solar Array Collapse
Aug 8 2014 // The Teton County, Wyoming, commissioners have accepted a $100,000 settlement from the designers of a solar array atop the Teton County-Jackson Recreation Center that collapsed in November. The Jackson Hole News & Guide...
Wyoming Sponsor Of Earhart Search Wants Suit To Continue
Jul 14 2014 // A Wyoming man who paid $1 million to sponsor a search for Amelia Earhart’s missing airplane is asking a federal judge not to dismiss his fraud lawsuit against expedition organizers. Tim Mellon maintains that the...
Lawsuit Over Hiker’s Death Moves to Wyoming from India
Jul 3 2014 // A federal lawsuit seeking damages against a Wyoming-based wilderness training academy over the death of a hiker on a 2011 trip to India will be heard in Wyoming. The lawsuit filed by Elizabeth Brenner of Minnetonka,...
80 Mph OK on Some Wyoming Highways Starting Today
Jul 1 2014 // Motorists traveling in Wyoming can go a little faster on certain stretches of interstate highways. Wyoming Department of Transportation crews began changing speed limit signs along three sections of Interstates 25, 80 and...
Wyoming City to Seek State Help For Landslide Costs
Jun 16 2014 // The town of Jackson, Wyo. plans to ask the state for help in covering the cost of a creeping landslide that damaged and threatened several homes and businesses. The Town Council will meet tonight to consider asking the...
