Over eight thousand businesses throughout the state of Wyoming received a portion of $420 million dollars in CARES Act funding that was distributed by the federal government to businesses to help them survive and set themselves up to thrive in the future.

Governor Mark Gordon is standing up for Wyoming’s oil and gas industry in a letter to the Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland.

Elizabeth Theresa Smith (38), from Riverton, Kevin Vanndara Chanthapannah (29), from Utah, and Kenneth Blake Wood (28), from Lander, were all convicted and sentenced related to their involvement in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and methamphetamine.