Wyoming Politics News

August 5, 2009 - 12:03 am

Supercomputing center takes shape

CHEYENNE -- The first color renderings of the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Wyoming supercomputing center were released Tuesday.

August 5, 2009 - 12:03 am

Authorities presume man drowned at Boysen

RIVERTON -- Fremont County authorities presume that a man missing since Sunday drowned in Boysen Reservoir north of Shoshoni.

August 5, 2009 - 12:03 am

Court rules against injured miner

CHEYENNE -- A Rock Springs man paralyzed in a trona mining accident in 2002 has lost his legal battle against his supervisor, the mine company and the company that made the machine he was operating.

August 5, 2009 - 12:03 am

Colleges cut spending

CHEYENNE -- All seven Wyoming community colleges are cutting their budgets in line with Gov. Dave Freudenthal's request that state agencies reduce spending by 10 percent this year.

August 5, 2009 - 12:03 am

Livestock disease meetings planned

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Livestock officials in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho are planning a series of meetings to explain new rules proposed for the animal disease brucellosis in the area around Yellowstone National Park.

August 5, 2009 - 12:03 am

Group appeals power plant ruling

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- A conservation group has appealed a judge's dismissal of its lawsuit that alleges the coal-fired Big Stone power plant in northeast South Dakota violated federal environmental laws by not installing modern pollution controls.

August 5, 2009 - 12:03 am

Police use Taser on parade participant

State agents are investigating a Saturday incident in which a 76-year-old man driving a tractor in Glenrock was tasered by police after allegedly failing to obey their orders.

August 5, 2009 - 12:03 am

Troopers no longer with patrol

Two state troopers put on leave in conjunction with the investigation of former trooper Franklin Ryle Jr. no longer work for the Wyoming Highway Patrol, the agency's top official said Tuesday.

August 5, 2009 - 12:03 am

Wyoming Briefs

Abduction suspect surrenders POWELL -- A Powell man surrendered to police Monday and was charged with felony larceny and kidnapping in relation to an incident last month where witnesses say he and two other men snatched a fourth man off the street and drove away.

August 4, 2009 - 06:03 pm
NEWS FEED: Politics West

Colleges cut spending

CHEYENNE -- All seven Wyoming community colleges are cutting their budgets in line with Gov. Dave Freudenthal's request that state agencies reduce spending by 10 percent this year.