Laramie County
Sector outpaced all others for most of last year, report finds
CASPER — Mining outpaced all other Wyoming industries for job growth from the last quarter of 2021 to the same time in 2022, a recent report from the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services found.
The sector — which includes oil...
CHEYENNE — Two Cheyenne teens involved in a drive-by shooting in Lincoln Park that resulted in the death of a 15-year-old girl will be charged as adults.
Julian Espinoza, 16, was driving the vehicle during the time of the April 30 incident and has been charged with conspiracy to commit first-...
Slowing visitation could be harder to predict this coming summer
JACKSON — An annual report from the Wyoming Office of Tourism shows the number of tourists visiting the state declined 8.5% in 2022 compared to 2021.
But those 7.5 million tourists spent more money, adding up to an overall increase in...
Party has suffered serious losses over the past decade
CASPER — Democrats held 26 seats in the Wyoming Legislature in 2008, the year now-Wyoming Democratic Party Chairman Joe Barbuto was a freshman lawmaker. But over the years, as hard-line factions of the Republican Party like the Tea Party...
CHEYENNE (WNE) — Two apparently unrelated shooting incidents took place in Laramie County over the weekend, with one resulting in the death of a teenage girl.
The Cheyenne Police Department is continuing its investigation of a shooting at Lincoln Park in south Cheyenne as a homicide after the 15-...
SHERIDAN — During the second and final day of the Wyoming Legislative Joint Judiciary Committee meeting, former 4th Judicial District Court Judge and current Wyoming Supreme Court Justice John Fenn spoke before the committee about court and judge security, recommending legislative changes in court...
CHEYENNE — Air quality in Cheyenne has worsened since last year, and similar trends were observed statewide, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Lung Association.
The organization working to improve lung health and prevent lung disease revealed the air quality changes around...
The Wyoming Legislature adjourned the 2023 general session on March 3, but its last orders of business weren’t put to rest until Friday when Gov. Mark Gordon let several bills become law without his signature. That included a near-complete ban on abortion, which divided anti-abortion lawmakers over...
CHEYENNE (WNE) — A Laramie County man was arrested Thursday on a felony first-degree murder warrant in connection with the May 2017 death of a Burns man in Weld County, Colorado.
Mark Dean Switzer, 71, of County Road 206 in Carpenter was taken into custody by Laramie County sheriff ’s deputies at...
DOUGLAS — A second off-track pari-mutuel betting facility asked the Converse County Commission for permission to open up in Douglas this year, but its application hit a wall Tuesday when the commissioners voted 2-2 on a motion to approve it.
The tie vote effectively killed the resolution which...
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