A U.S. District judge said it was “not hard to imagine” that some horses and burros went to slaughter in his ruling that led to the Bureau of Land Management’s decision to shut down the adoption program.

Wyoming Game and Fish says the annual regulations could change due to the easily transmissible, always fatal brain disease.

The Kemmerer coal mine is laying off 28 workers. City officials hope other, incoming energy projects can absorb them.

The judges said the ranch could not deny access to federal public lands for lawful purposes and affirmed that corner crossing is not trespassing, as long as private land is not physically touched.

The grant program provided funding to buy food from small-scale producers and distribute it to folks in need across the state.

A new scientific analysis shows spring is getting warmer across the U.S. because of climate change. Some of the fastest-warming cities are in the Mountain West, threatening to shrink water supplies and increase wildfire risk.

Colorado and Wyoming will fly one balloon a day, a potential public safety risk, meteorologists say.

An early outlook from the National Interagency Fire Center anticipates “normal” potential for large wildfires in Wyoming through June. Normal still means fires. A few early-season blazes near Wheatland already caused evacuations in February.

The report finds that about one-third of species, including many in the Mountain West, are at high or moderate concern from a conservation perspective.

Wildland firefighter advocates are celebrating the permanent pay raises included in a larger funding bill passed by Congress late last week.