Sen. Mike Gierau
A guided angler floats under a Thermopolis bridge over the Bighorn River in September 2022. Roughly 40% of all anglers Wyoming Game and Fish surveyed on the Bighorn are guided, according to a 2021 report. (Mike Koshmrl/WyoFile)
FROM WYOFILE:
Complaints of overcrowding, out-of-state competition prompt proposals for permitting systems, but institutional misgivings have made netting legislation tricky.
Some days out on the water the drift boats and rafts are so dense, Wind River Troutfitter owner Ron Hansen feels like...
CHEYENNE — One-hundred and ninety-six bills passed out of the Wyoming Legislature during the general session, but that doesn’t mean nothing was left on the table.
Lawmakers recognized there were missed opportunities, while still applauding steps toward saving hundreds of millions of dollars,...
Of the more than a dozen bills aimed at providing residential property tax relief, Wyoming lawmakers settled on three: one to expand an existing refund program for low- and middle-income homeowners and two to lay the groundwork for more ambitious future reforms.
Several lawmakers expressed...
Visitors walk past overflow parking at Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Park as they make their way to the natural attraction June 20, 2021. (Angus M. Thuermer, Jr./WyoFile)
With a new $6 million trust fund designed to award grants to outdoor recreation projects, Wyoming is poised to join the growing list of states that are investing government dollars in the burgeoning industry.
House Bill 74 – Wyoming outdoor recreation and tourism trust fund passed out of the...
CHEYENNE — Senate leaders issued a formal letter of reprimand against Cheyenne Republican Sen. Anthony Bouchard on Wednesday for his behavior that led to a second ethics complaint in less than a year.
The Senate Rules Committee met Wednesday morning to give the letter to the Laramie County...
CHEYENNE — Gov. Mark Gordon issued 21 line-item vetoes to the supplemental budget bill passed by the Wyoming Legislature this general session.
The vetoes — outlined in a letter sent Friday evening to House Speaker Albert Sommers, R-Pinedale — balanced applauding the successes of lawmakers and...
CHEYENNE — An unprecedented $1.4 billion will be placed into savings by the Wyoming Legislature upon the governor’s final approval of the supplemental budget bill. The 2023-24 supplemental budget was carefully assembled by the Joint Appropriations Committee throughout the interim, and final...
Senators have killed a bill that would have legalized “physical force” to “terminate” a perceived trespass, rejecting an expansion of criminal statutes backed by 57 representatives.
House Bill 126 – Trespass-removal of trespass ran into heavy criticism in a Senate committee for what many saw as...
Sen. Larry Hicks (R-Baggs) responds to criticism about a bill he conceived that would send $5.25 million from Wyoming's rainy day fund to states that share a border with Mexico. (Mike Koshmrl/WyoFile)
CHEYENNE — Sen. Larry Hicks (R-Baggs) doesn’t consider himself a racist, bigot or xenophobe.
In the majority floor leader’s office just off the Wyoming Senate gallery last week, he said that part of the promise of the United States is what it offers to immigrants: “the freest country in the...
JACKSON — Teton County has a lot to gain from what’s shaping up to be the most popular property tax bill in Wyoming’s most conservative Legislature in recent history.
House Bill 99 would allow more people to apply for an existing state-funded property tax refund program while putting several...
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