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As we begin feeling the first chills of fall, Mother nature is letting us know winter is coming and with its comes winter driving. As a way to prepare, wydot is letting folks know they are opening up the Wyoming travel authorization program or w-tap ahead of the 2022 -2023 winter season. With it, drivers can receive authorization to travel on sections of closed roadways during the winter when it is deemed safe.

Cowboys Have the Best Record in the Mountain West at 3-1, Start MW Play 1-0

Ranked teams fell, The Oil Bowl provides one Casper team with bragging rights, and East defends their top rank in 4A

The Wyoming Air Guard held its second annual “Discovery Day” on Friday, helping students and STEM take flight. This tri-state event showed about 800 students all of the opportunities Wyoming STEM fields hold. ”It’s our pride and our passion to try and make sure that our students leave the district able to contribute to society. If we don’t work really hard on that STEM engagement, we’re going to lose some of those opportunities for kids, so this is huge in helping us make sure they are ready for the future,” said Lindsey Stutheit, Career & Technical Education Coordinator- LCSD1.

Following the decision to curtail the residential portion of Class 46 and eventually close the Wyoming Cowboy Challenge Academy located at Camp Guernsey, the staff continues to provide options to cadets and their guardians for their academic success.

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed legislation by Sen. Cynthia Lummis to reduce the spread of a toxic chemical at commercial airports. Polyfluoroalkyl, or PFAS, is a toxic chemical used in fire retardants. It is a forever chemical that does not break down and is used at Wyoming airports. This new bill would leverage existing Federal Aviation Administration funding to purchase devices necessary to test their firefighting equipment.

Railroads and workers’ unions reached a tentative agreement early Thursday morning after almost striking prior to the compromise. According to officials, a strike would have created supply chain issues across many industries and sectors. In a statement, Union Pacific says, “We look forward to the unions ratifying these agreements and working with employees as we focus on restoring supply chain fluidity.”

SAEN’s complaint against the University of Wyoming involves an article retracted following a university investigation that found: “data irregularities, image reuse, and manipulation in a number of figures.”

Anywhere in north west Wyoming there is a possibility of running into grizzly bears. Game and fish wants hunters to take precautions before, during, and after their hunts.

“Firefighters from nearly 30 departments worked through the night to combat the Smokey Fire,” Incident Commander Tim Grubbs said. “The many air assets fighting this fire along with those firefighters on the ground are working tirelessly to get this fire under control.”

After months of preparation and training the Wyoming Air Guard’s Modular Airborne, Fire Fighting Systems or MAFFS unit has been called out to help fight wildfires in the western states. There are two national MAFFS units from California and Nevada already in Idaho working on wildfires in the northwest.

The Wyoming blockchain stampede runs from September 19th to the 23rd at the University of Wyoming. This will also include the cyber security conference, which will have several keynote speakers, including Dr. Erik Huffman. He is the CEO and Founder of Hand-Shake Leadership and is a Cybersecurity and Cyberpsychology researcher.

Thanks to some out-of-state fires, most of Wyoming woke up to smoke and haze Tuesday morning. According to Wyoming State Forestry, wildfires have been burning in Idaho.“They had some pretty intense fire behavior. The fire conditions and weather all lined up for erratic fire behavior and rapid fire growth. That caused most of the smoke to be filtering in from those areas,” said Jerod DeLay, Assistant State Forester, Fire Management Officer.

On top of trying to get back to full health and preparing for a new opponent with one less day, the Air Force Falcons offer a challenge unlike any other on offense

The Wyoming Breast Cancer initiative is hosting multiple events to raise money and awareness around the disease.

From Sept. 11 through 17 Wyoming Community Service Providers are recognizing National Direct Support Professionals week.

Wyoming is a gun friendly state, but there may be more to consider when it comes to using one for self defense.

’m standing here at the Cheyenne Frontier day event center at congressional hopeful Harriet Hageman’s watch party. National networks are setting up as folks are starting to trickle in for the results of tonight’s primary election. The sense of anticipation is growing as voting starts to wind down and those results start to come in.

An energetic and excited crowd at the Republican Nominee Harriet Hageman’s watch party was ready for a win, and boy did Harriet Hageman deliver on Tuesday evening. With about a 30 percent lead over the incumbent U.S. House Representative Liz Cheney, the crowd was cheering and clapping for Hagemans’ winning speech on Wyoming values and American ideals.

Cowboy Defense Forces Three Turnovers and Holds UNC to 147 Total Yards

Cheyenne South and Kelly Walsh were both given the chance to dash the zero in their win columns, but only one would manage to do it

"The Gateway West Transmission Line Project will support approximately 90 construction jobs and help integrate up to 765 megawatts of new renewable energy resources into the grid while also ensuring reliability of existing generation resources. Building transmission lines will help deliver cleaner and cheaper electricity that lowers costs for families and consumers. The Gateway West project is part of PacifiCorp’s Energy Gateway Transmission Expansion, a multi-year investment plan to add approximately 2,000 miles of new transmission lines across the West."

With the primaries behind us, many look to the general election to secure the offices for the year ahead, but there’s an office that is changing sooner than anticipated.We talked to officials to see what they might mean for Wyomingites and future elections.

. Each felony is punishable by no less than five years, nor more than fifty years, and a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars

Encompassing a holistic approach, Governor Gordon, alongside members of the Legislative and Judicial branches, is set to discuss the state of mental health in Wyoming during the 2022 Governor’s Mental Health Summit next month. Bringing together various perspectives from community partners, private providers and state leaders, panel discussions will highlight current efforts and the development of a common agenda for addressing mental health and substance abuse in Wyoming.

Wyoming still remains one of the states with the highest rate of suicide. Experts say the isolation, bootstrap culture and high gun ownership all play a factor in this statistic. But officials say that as mental health awareness grows, so do community resources and local support. The Wyoming Department of Health is encouraging everyone to attend the Wyoming Suicide Prevention Symposium on Sept. 26 - 27 at the Little America Hotel and Resort, the event is free and open to the public.

With inflation on the forefront of everyone’s mind, retaining educators and the cost of quality education are quickly becoming the focus of budget and long-term revenue projections.The Wyoming Joint Education Committee held its meeting on Tuesday morning, and Community College funding, Capital Construction, and future costs were up for discussion.

Through three years of work, Uprising has seen reports of trafficking in Wyoming go from almost nonexistent to often documented.

Bohl spoke highly of the bears ahead of Saturday’s matchup, showing that the team has moved on and won’t be taking the FCS school lightly

Saturday’s game marked the first time since a Sept. 30, 2017, Wyoming home win over Texas State (45-10) that Wyoming scored a touchdown on offense, defense and special teams