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Wyoming Is Half In Drought & Half Green
Wake Up Wyoming
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August 16, 2025
When it comes to how much rain the Cowboy State has received in 2025, Wyoming is split in half. The eastern side of the state has been mostly green all year long. The western side, and mostly the south-western side, is a completely different...
Saturday update: ‘Favorable weather’ moderates Crosho Fire activity; 284 personnel deployed to fight flames
Steamboat Pilot & Today - Colorado
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August 16, 2025
The Crosho Fire covered 2,200 acres as of Saturday morning, according to an update from the Wyoming Type 3 Team managing the fire suppression effort. The fire is zero percent contained and is threatening 240 structures in the area. Saturday’s...
Mountain Health Co-Op to Stop Covering Wyoming Residents—What’s Next?
Live Insurance News
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August 16, 2025
Big changes are hitting Wyoming. Mountain Health Co-Op—one of the last affordable health insurance choices here—is leaving the state by the end of 2025. Why? The answer stings: soaring healthcare costs and unique financial challenges have made it...
Tribal Solar Projects Meet Different Fates In Wyoming After Trump Administration Kills Funding
Inside Climate News
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August 16, 2025
WIND RIVER, Wyo.—Last week, the Northern Arapaho tribe learned that it was losing about $10 million in federal grants that would have helped members of the tribe lower their electrical bills. “For us, it’s really a kick in the balls,” said Patrick...
Wyoming game wardens take 3,102 actions in 2024, public tips crucial
Your Wyoming Link
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Wyoming Game Wardens took over 3100 law enforcement actions in 2024, with the public providing a big help in those efforts. Wyoming game wardens patrolled more than 600,000 miles and took 3,102 law enforcement actions statewide in 2024, according...
Cheyenne's Frontier Mall welcomes new businesses
Your Wyoming Link
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More and more local businesses are moving here to the Frontier Mall. At a time of uncertainty for malls across the country, I decided to ask new and older businesses in the Frontier mall how they were faring One New Business that's going to be...
Climate change may amplify the impacts of geomagnetic storms
Earth.com
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Rising carbon dioxide high above Earth is expected to change how geomagnetic storms disturb the upper atmosphere. Peak densities during storms may be lower than they are today, yet the swing from calm to storm could be greater. That shift matters...
Q2 Billings Area Weather: Hotter weekend weather with isolated PM thunderstorms
KTVQ 2 - Montana
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August 15, 2025
BILLINGS — After the cold front passage on Thursday, much of Montana and Wyoming returned to more seasonable weather on Friday. This evening will be quiet and warm for most of us, with only isolated showers and thunderstorms. There will also be...
Weekend Weather Outlook: Hot, Breezy, and Stormy
KIFI Local News 8 - Idaho
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August 15, 2025
East Idaho and western Wyoming remains sandwiched between two major weather systems: a strengthening high-pressure area near the Four Corners and a persistent area of low pressure off the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia coast. This setup...
Fire ban in effect on grounds in SE Wyoming
High Plains Journal - Kansas
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August 15, 2025
Due to extreme fire danger across southeast Wyoming, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department has implemented an open fire ban on all Game and Fish Commission-owned and administered lands within Albany, Carbon, Goshen, Laramie, and Platte counties....
Wyoming Guard Exercise Builds Readiness for Aeromedical Evacuation Teams
US Army
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August 15, 2025
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Members of the 187th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, the Wyoming Army National Guard Dustoff unit and the Critical Care Air Transport Team, or CCATT, from the 302nd Airlift Wing at Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado Springs,...
‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will cost Wyoming $50 mil. State lawmakers are worried
Wyoming Public Media
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August 15, 2025
Wyoming is set to lose about $50 million a year because of new federal breaks for the coal industry. This has state lawmakers increasingly worried. Rep. Robert Wharff (R-Evanston) spoke with fellow lawmakers this week during the Select Federal...
Wyoming crowd boos Hageman retort that protections against greenhouse gases based on ‘false science’
WyoFile - Wyoming
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August 15, 2025
Over 21,000 Wyomingites get WyoFile delivered straight to their inbox. Join your neighbors and stay informed with the stories shaping Wyoming. Wyoming’s U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, responding to a question during a recent town hall event in...
Buffalo (almost) officially wildlife on some 2M new acres of Wyoming, a step toward roaming free
WyoFile - Wyoming
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August 15, 2025
Care about high-quality wildlife reporting? Sign up for our free newsletter and get stories like this delivered to your inbox. In late April, Jason Baldes sat at a table at the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative’s headquarters processing a...
Risk, reward and questions: Wyomingites weigh in on nuclear microreactor waste storage
Wyoming Public Media
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August 15, 2025
Should Wyoming let nuclear microreactor manufacturers store spent fuel in the state? That question has been top of mind for Wyoming residents and lawmakers on the Joint Minerals, Business and Economic Development Committee this summer. The group...
Cheyenne County Fair Celebrates Top 4-H Talent
Sidney Sun Telegraph - Nebraska
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August 14, 2025
BARBARA PEREZ Sidney Sun-Telegraph Sidney, Nebraska – The Cheyenne County Fair recently wrapped up with outstanding achievements by local 4-H participants. Youth from across the county showcased their skills in a variety of events, ranging from...
Cheyenne County: A look Back
Sidney Sun Telegraph - Nebraska
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August 14, 2025
10 Years Ago, The Sidney Sun-Telegraph, 2015 The Cheyenne County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a bid for the construction of a new livestock building at the fairgrounds on Monday morning. The $368,000 structure will replace an aging...
Wyoming Hunger Initiative allocates $152,891 in grants to anti-hunger nonprofits
Wyoming News Now
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Cheyenne, Wyo. - First Lady Jennie Gordon’s Wyoming Hunger Initiative allocated $152,891 recently for infrastructure needs through the Initiative’s seventh grant cycle since launching in October 2019. Wyoming Hunger Initiative grants are intended...
'Lie! Lie!' Wyoming community blasts Republican at town hall
AlterNet
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August 15, 2025
Comments from climate change denier Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.) went badly at a recent town hall in rural Pinedale. WyoFile reports the community of Pinedale suffered alarming ozone spikes in the late 2000s, with one measurement surpassing that...
Safety Tips for Working in Hot Weather
News Letter Journal - Wyoming
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August 15, 2025
Working in hot weather poses unique challenges, especially for those in Northeast Wyoming and Southwest South Dakota. Extreme heat can lead to exhaustion, dehydration, and heat-related illnesses, making it essential to take precautions when...