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Wyoming Transportation Commission awards $33.1 million in contracts for DOT projects
Stormwater Solutions
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August 5, 2025
The Wyoming Department of Transportation (DOT) announced on July 31, 2025, that the Wyoming Transportation Commission awarded $33.1 million in contracts for five Wyoming DOT projects during its July 17 regular business meeting. The Commission...
University Of Wyoming Introduces New Fund For Student Internships
AM 1400 The Cowboy - Wyoming
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August 8, 2025
There's a new opportunity for students who attend the University of Wyoming College of Arts and Sciences. The Pete and Lynne Simpson Student Enrichment Fund in the Humanities will support student internships. As you know, when you're an intern,...
Nevada finds royalty has its rewards in Wyoming
Prince George Citizen
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Prince George cowgirl had a busy week at the National High School Finals Rodeo in Rock Springs, Wy. Nevado Jones had a lot to juggle with at the 77th annual National High School Finals Rodeo in Rock Springs, Wy. As if it wasn’t stressful enough to...
Adornment Assemblage Linked to Wyoming Native American Site
Archaeology - New York
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August 7, 2025
RIVER BEND, WYOMING—In the 1970s, archaeologists conducting a salvage operation prior to construction discovered a significant Native American site near the North Platte River in Casper, Wyoming. However, much of the material from the River Bend...
Dino digger: Norwin grad gathers fossils from Wyoming, aids research in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Tribune Review - Pennsylvania
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August 8, 2025
Nick Hornicak of North Huntingdon digs dinosaurs, literally. The 24-year-old Indiana University of Pennsylvania graduate student was part of a team of fellow dinosaur diggers who in June worked in the high desert of southern Wyoming. They...
Western makes progress on Health Science wing
Green River Star - Wyoming
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August 7, 2025
Western Wyoming Community College is continuing to make steady progress on the construction of its new Health Science wing, an $11.1 million expansion that broke ground in May 2024. Once complete, anticipated for August 2026, the new space will...
Hall to present at research symposium
Lovell Chronicle - Wyoming
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August 7, 2025
The University of Wyoming will host their annual McNair Scholars Undergraduate Research Symposium Wednesday, Aug. 13, in the Union Family Room. The symposium will feature the culmination of research activities of 13 undergraduate students who are...
From garage startup to Fortune 100 suppliers: The rise of LiveView Technologies
Utah Business
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August 7, 2025
While most kids dream of one day becoming a firefighter, astronaut or race car driver, Ryan Porter’s childhood dream was different. He wanted to come up with an idea no one had thought of before. After years of patience and hard work, Porter’s...
The Climate Science Shaking Up Court Cases As The EPA Changes Course
Forbes
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UNITED STATES - MAY 14: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin testifies during the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies hearing titled "A Review of the President's FY2026 Budget Request for the Environmental...
8 Local Wyoming Newspapers Shutdown Overnight
Montana Talks
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August 7, 2025
Early Wednesday, News Media Corp, which owns small-town newspapers across America, suddenly shut down 8 local Wyoming papers. There is nothing on the News Media Corp website about these shutdowns. There was no warning for their employees or the...
Uranium Company Receives Wyoming’s First Fast-Tracked Mining Permits
Inside Climate News
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August 6, 2025
Uranium Energy Corp.’s Sweetwater uranium project has become the first mining proposal in Wyoming to be fast-tracked under President Donald Trump’s March executive order to increase U.S. mineral production. The company announced Aug. 5 that it...
The Climate Science That Is Shaking The Courts: EPA Turns A Blind Eye
Forbes
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UNITED STATES - MAY 14: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin testifies during the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies hearing titled "A Review of the President's FY2026 Budget Request for the Environmental...
Forest Service faces identity crisis in USDA overhaul plan. Again.
WyoFile - Wyoming
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August 11, 2025
Care about high-quality wildlife reporting? Sign up for our free newsletter and get stories like this delivered to your inbox. This story was originally published by Mountain Journal. The U.S. Forest Service has been searching for an identity...
Wilson's Announce $90,000 in Donations to Wyoming Non-Profits
Y95 Country - Southeast Wyoming
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August 7, 2025
CINCINNATI, Ohio — Logan and Morgan Wilson are proud to announce $90,000 in charitable donations to six Wyoming-based non-profit organizations. The funds were raised through proceeds from their youth football camps and dinner auctions held in...
Five Wyoming elk herds have remained relatively unknown and uncounted — until now
WyoFile - Wyoming
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August 6, 2025
Care about high-quality wildlife reporting? Sign up for our free newsletter and get stories like this delivered to your inbox. In the middle of winter — starting in 2018 stretching into 2021 — contracted helicopter capture crews managed to subdue...
Is Wyoming 'Gone With the Wind'?
Douglas Budget - Wyoming
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When I first watched Victor Fleming’s “The Wizard of Oz” as a kid, I didn’t find it especially spectacular that the wind could blow Dorothy’s house miles away. Sitting cross-legged in front of that brown box-like television that seemingly weighed...
Wyoming AI Data Center Would Consume More Power Than All State Homes
DevX
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August 4, 2025
A proposed artificial intelligence data center near Cheyenne, Wyoming, would require an unprecedented amount of electricity, surpassing the combined power consumption of all residential homes in the state. The massive facility highlights the...
The West’s wolves can’t go to court for federal protection, so we went for them and won
Idaho Capital Sun
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August 11, 2025
In an amazing court victory for wild wolves and advocates who tirelessly speak on their behalf, the federal district court in Missoula, Montana, ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act when it determined...
Scientists chase storms through the Mountain West to study hail’s growing toll
KANW - New Mexico
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August 4, 2025
Dewey Kahawai was asleep when he heard a knock on his bedroom window. “I sprang out of bed and thought, ‘Oh my gosh, someone’s trying to get into my house,’” he said. That was soon followed by thumping on the roof as a hailstorm tore through...
A Wyoming town massacred its Chinese immigrant workers 140 years ago. This summer, descendants return to dig for the Chinatown ‘burn layer’
Wyoming Public Media
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August 6, 2025
A short drive from Main Street in Rock Springs, two rectangular holes, about four feet deep, form a checkerboard pattern in a grassy lawn. The green space, which connects a Slovenian Catholic church with a playground, has attracted a trickle of...