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CHEYENNE – Former Republican candidate for Wyoming governor Rex Rammell filed a lawsuit last week in federal district court and requested more than $12 million in damages for an alleged civil rights violation.   The complaint was against Sublette County Sheriff K.C. Lehr and Deputy Sheriff Ty...
CASPER – Former President Donald Trump’s popularity continues to hold strong in Wyoming, a new poll from the University of Wyoming shows.  The survey also found that a majority of Republicans in Wyoming prefer Trump as the Republican presidential nominee rather than another candidate.  The poll,...

Harriet Hageman, Wyoming's Republican nominee in the race for U.S. House of Representatives, gets ready to vote at the Kiwanis Community House in Cheyenne on Tuesday.  Photo by Alyte Katilius, Wyoming Tribune Eagle. 

CHEYENNE — As expected, Republican U.S. House candidate Harriet Hageman came out of the general election victorious Tuesday night, along with many other Republicans in the state.  She easily defeated three other contenders in the race, as called by the Associated Press before 9:30 p.m.  Democratic...
CASPER —Republican nominee for state superintendent of public instruction Megan Degenfelder came to Natrona County’s school board meeting on Monday to weigh in on the district’s book controversy, saying the books at issue aren’t appropriate for children.  But Degenfelder also stressed that she...
CASPER —The Wyoming Democratic Party filed a complaint against the campaign of Paul Vogelheim, a Teton County Republican running for House District 23, after the campaign accepted a $10,000 donation from Vogelheim’s mother-in-law.  The complaint, submitted Monday to the Wyoming Secretary of State’s...
CASPER — Lynnette Grey Bull, the Democratic nominee for Wyoming’s lone House seat, hasn’t slowed down her campaign following a harrowing primary election that saw incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney defeated by Trump-backed Republican nominee Harriet Hageman.  Now, Grey Bull is hoping Cheney, an outspoken...
CHEYENNE — The Wyoming Democratic Party is at risk of losing major party status if Democrats in the state don’t register and vote in the general election.  The Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office reported that out of the more than 182,000 votes cast in the primary election overall, only 4.5% were...
CHEYENNE (WNE) —Republican U.S. House of Representatives primary winner Harriet Hageman has declined an invitation to debate Democratic contender Lynnette GreyBull next month.  WyomingPBS confirmed Monday that officials had provided two dates in October for Hageman to participate in the general...

Photo by Walter Sprague/NLJ

Donna’s Diner hosted a poll watch party on Tuesday, Aug. 16. A full house of voters and some local candidates gathered to cheer or boo as the preliminary results of Wyoming’s Primary Election came in. Two major local candidates, Garret Borton, who is running for Weston County Commissioner, left, and Allen Slagle, running for Wyoming House District No. 2, right were congratulated by the crowd and by Kari Drost, chairperson for the Weston County Republican Central Committee, center.

 
Wyoming voters will flock to the polls one more time this year for the Nov. 8 general election, and while several of those races are uncontested, voters will be asked to choose between the Republican candidate and the Democratic candidate in various state races and the race for the state’s lone...
JACKSON — A Democratic candidate for Wyoming House District 23 announced in a Sunday press release that he had received the wrong absentee ballot in the mail last week. Ryan Sedgeley said that he and his wife have “always been registered as Democrats in Wyoming” but received ballots in the mail Aug...

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