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The news shot around Grand Teton National Park like the crack of a well-hit baseball echoing off Cascade Canyon. The Trump administration is scouting the park for a site to play a Major League Baseball game. When WyoFile did its own scouting, visitors panned the idea. wyofile.com/grand-teton-...
Grand Teton National Ballpark? Visitors call it a field of nightmares. - WyoFile
Park visitors greet news of a potential MLB game in front of the Tetons with disbelief.
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Federal agents detained Feride Bardakci at a bus stop Sept. 15 for allegedly overstaying her student visa. After learning of Wyoming community’s support, she plans to contest her removal. From Jackson Hole News&Guide #wyomingnews #ice
After ICE arrest, Jackson restaurant worker’s community springs into action - WyoFile
Federal agents detained Feride Bardakci at a bus stop Sept. 15 for allegedly overstaying her student visa. After learning of Wyoming community’s support, she plans to contest her removal.
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Roberts beat a Freedom Caucus-aligned lawmaker for a House seat and is soon headed to Cheyenne. The outgoing commissioner spoke to WyoFile about the recent Game and Fish turmoil, agency morale and navigating controversies. #wyomingnews #molliespack #codyroberts #freedomcaucus
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OPINION: Let’s celebrate the past, but more importantly, let’s make sure we’re securing the future, writes guest columnist Sam Mead. #wyomingnews #publiclands
Opinion | Celebrating the Wyoming way of life on Public Lands Day
Let’s celebrate the past, but more importantly, let’s make sure we’re securing the future, writes guest columnist Sam Mead.
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Photo Friday: A photo of discarded wind turbine blades being buried at a local landfill moved Casper sculptor Chris Navarro. The "Windborne" art installation transforms an industrial byproduct into something functional and inspirational, he says. #wyomingnews #photofriday #art #windturbine
Bucking the wind: Wyoming artists transform wind blade into snowfence - WyoFile
The "Windborne" art installation transforms a discarded wind turbine blade into function inspiration, Casper artist says.
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President Donald Trump last week ordered federal land managers to boost public access to public lands, including to landlocked parcels in Wyoming and to Western whitewater rivers. #wyomingnews #publiclands #cornercrossing
Trump orders plans to unlock isolated public land, revise river-trip permitting - WyoFile
The efforts are contained in a push to bolster hunting heritage.
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OPINION: President Trump pitched $5,000 to each American adult citizen as a ‘dividend,’ but let’s not pretend to be fooled, writes columnist David Romtvedt. #wyomingnews #trump #elections wyofile.com/what-a-bribe/
Opinion | What, a bribe?
President Trump pitched $5,000 to each American adult citizen as a "dividend" if Republicans win, but let’s not pretend to be fooled, writes columnist David Romtvedt.
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Liberty Counsel is defending a church on the Wind River Indian Reservation that’s embroiled in controversy after its pastor delivered a sermon urging Native congregants to renounce Northern Arapaho traditions. #wyomingnews #windriverchurch #pastorsarahlucas
Who is the Christian legal group representing the Wind River church embroiled in sermon controversy? - WyoFile
Amid tribe’s call for banishment, Florida-based Liberty Council says Foundations for Nations church “will not be leaving its property.”
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El Nino could mean less wind for our notoriously blustery state. It could also produce above-average snow in the southern part of the state and below average in the north, "It's hard to do worse" than last winter without El Nino, a Wyoming meteorologist says. #wyomingnews #elnino #wyomingwinter
What will 'super' El Nino bring to landlocked, parched Wyoming? - WyoFile
While poised to wreak havoc across the globe, El Nino might mean a closer-to-normal Wyoming winter after a wild, snowless one last season.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is weighing pros and cons of feeding wildlife, which could lead to more chronic wasting disease. That’s raising questions about health risks beyond the herd. #wyomingnews #wyomingwildlife #CWD
National Elk Refuge fields questions about what feeding elk could mean for Jackson Hole’s water - WyoFile
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is weighing pros and cons of feeding wildlife, which could lead to more chronic wasting disease. That’s raising questions about health risks beyond the herd.
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OPINION: Humans yearn for a place that has meaning, that connects us to the earth and to our people, writes columnist Walt Gasson. #wyomingnews
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The Wyoming Judicial Branch says it’s awaiting more details regarding the scope of a cybersecurity breach of a third-party software company once used by the Wyoming Supreme Court and state district courts. It may have included data from cases between 2015 and 2025. #wyomingnews #cybersecurity
Wyoming courts investigate extent of personal data exposed in cybersecurity breach - WyoFile
While the breach of third-party software did not impact the judicial branch’s current internal system, data from certain cases between 2015 and 2025 may have been exposed.
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Backers of the proposed Alkali Creek Dam near Hyattville expect to condemn ranch property if landowners don’t agree to sell easements necessary for construction and operation of the troubled project, letters shared with WyoFile show. #wyomingnews #eminentdomain
Backers of troubled Alkali Dam project threaten condemnation of private land - WyoFile
Water district sends “final offer” to landowners, saying it expects to “reluctantly initiate eminent domain proceedings” if offers are declined.
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Powerful Wyoming organizations are teaming up to challenge a grassroots effort to cut property taxes. The campaign seeks to convince voters that it’s worth supporting local services instead of making further tax cuts. With KHOL 89.1 FM #wyomingnews #propertytax
Teachers, hospital leaders launch $1M campaign to fight property tax ballot measure - WyoFile
Effort comes after 30,000 Wyomingites supported a 50% statewide tax break.
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WyoHistory.org editors Kylie McCormick and Leslie Waggener revisit the chaotic 1891 night when a clerk’s “wet ink” note sparked accusations of fraud, vote buying and a political meltdown in Wyoming’s first Legislature. #wyomingnews #wyominghistory #legislativenews wyofile.com/wet-ink-the-...
History | Wet ink: The forgery accusation that nearly wrecked Wyoming’s first Legislature
WyoHistory.org editors Kylie McCormick and Leslie Waggener revisit the chaotic 1891 night when a clerk’s “wet ink” note sparked accusations of fraud, vote buying and a political meltdown in Wyoming’s ...
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OPINION: Sen. John Barrasso is known for his frequent television appearances. But when he had an opportunity to defend the freedom of the press, Wyoming’s senior senator backed President Trump over the First Amendment, columnist Kerry Drake writes. #wyomingnews #barrasso #trumppressban
Opinion | Barrasso loves attention from the media, but not protecting press freedoms
Wyoming’s U.S. senator backs President Trump’s ban on news outlets that say negative things about administration, columnist Kerry Drake writes.
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Voters finally felt the threat to public lands had reached a critical point, observers say. From High Country News #wyomingnews #publiclands #election #freedomcaucus
Wyoming chooses public lands at the ballot box - WyoFile
Voters finally felt the threat to public lands had reached a critical point, observers say.
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Yellowstone National Park’s last original wolf pack, Mollie’s Pack, emerged unscathed from a Wyoming hunting season that opened last week and has already closed. The famous pack made headlines for leaving the safety of its longtime territory in the park. #wyomingnews #molliespack
No Mollie’s Pack, Yellowstone wolves killed, state reports after hunt area’s quick close - WyoFile
Hunters fill a four-wolf limit in just four days, closing down two hunt areas for the season and sparing a wandering wolf pack.
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Authorities don’t yet know what prompted the attack, which has caused concern within the broader Sikh community. The Sweetwater County prosecutor cautioned against making assumptions about the case.
Sikh truck driver stabbed at Wyoming rest stop, suspect faces attempted murder charge - WyoFile
Authorities say there is no known motive for the attack, which has caused concern within the broader Sikh community.
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In case you missed it: A new lawsuit accuses the TD Ameritrade founder’s former agent and a Star Valley developer of conspiring to run up costs, rig appraisals and falsely suggest that the U.S. Forest Service was interested in a land trade. #wyomingnews #billionaire #landswap
Wyoming billionaire Joe Ricketts alleges he was defrauded out of $34 million in failed federal land swap - WyoFile
New lawsuit contends that TD Ameritrade founder’s former agent and a Star Valley developer conspired to run up costs, rig appraisals and falsely suggest that the U.S. Forest Service was interested in ...
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Though global engineering giant Bechtel was expected to see the ambitious nuclear power project through to completion, it wasn't able to reach an agreement with Bill Gates-backed TerraPower. Still, "construction in Kemmerer will maintain its current schedule," the company says. #wyomingnews #nuclear
Lead contractor pulls out of Gates’ Natrium nuclear power plant project in Wyoming - WyoFile
TerraPower says construction will continue as planned as it seeks a new contractor, with its in-service date of 2031 intact.
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OPINION: Guest columnist Paul Hansen, a first-time election judge, reflects on his experience and looks ahead to November’s general election. #wyomingnews #electionjudge
Opinion | How Election Day looks from the inside
Guest columnist Paul Hansen, a first-time election judge, reflects on his experience and looks ahead to November’s general election.
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University of Wyoming faculty told WyoFile they remain optimistic, if not cautiously so, about President Shane Reeves’ stance on academic freedom after Reeves was named in a federal lawsuit that accuses him of firing a West Point professor for teaching about climate change. #wyomingnews
University of Wyoming optimistic on academic freedom despite censorship lawsuit naming new president - WyoFile
Faculty leadership largely back Shane Reeves in wake of litigation stemming from his time at West Point.
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Authorities don’t yet know what prompted the attack, which has caused concern within the broader Sikh community. The suspect faces an attempted first-degree murder charge, and the Sweetwater County prosecutor cautioned against making assumptions about the case. #wyomingnews
Sikh truck driver stabbed at Wyoming rest stop, suspect faces attempted murder charge - WyoFile
Authorities say there is no known motive for the attack, which has caused concern within the broader Sikh community.
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Photo Friday: WyoFile’s Jared Steinman celebrates the value of an unsuccessful hunt. #wyomingnews #hunting #photography wyofile.com/enjoying-my-...
Photo Friday | Enjoying my backyard on a beautiful September day
WyoFile’s Jared Steinman celebrates the value of an unsuccessful hunt.
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OPINION: Wyoming still has what other states sold off. Rescission of the Roadless Rule could take what’s left of our backcountry, writes guest columnist Dan Smitherman. #opinion #roadlessrule #backcountry wyofile.com/what-politic...
Opinion | What politicians could learn from horses
Wyoming still has what other states sold off. Rescission of the Roadless Rule could take what’s left of our backcountry, writes guest columnist Dan Smitherman.
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The noxious invasive grass has been detected west of the Bighorns for the first time. Killing it won’t be easy or cheap, at a time that resources are declining. #wyomingnews #invasivespecies
Destructive ventenata — arguably worse than cheatgrass — sweeps west across Wyoming - WyoFile
The noxious invasive grass has been detected west of the Bighorn Mountains for the first time.
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Fremont County voters passed a tax in August that unionized EMTs and paramedics say was part of a deal to eventually move them from contract employees to working for the county. They’ve pledged to strike Sept. 28. “Let ‘em,” said one commissioner, who maintains there was no such deal. #wyomingnews
Unionized Fremont County first responders say they'll strike over rift with local officials - WyoFile
The county commission voted to let a contract with the employer 30 EMTs and paramedics expire while negotiating a deal with a regional hospital where they can't organize.
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The ruling finds that the state failed to adequately fund teacher salaries, but it reverses requirements to pay for safety officers, computers and nutrition. With the Wyoming Tribune Eagle #wyomingnews #schoolfunding #teachersalaries
Supreme Court finds Wyoming must spend more on teachers, strikes down other funding demands - WyoFile
Mixed ruling from high court in school funding suit draws praise from both lawmakers and educators. Decision reverses requirements to pay for school safety officers, computers and student nutrition.
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Immigration enforcement agents have shown a “shift in tactic” according to one Jackson immigration attorney after arresting a 26-year-old Turkish woman Tuesday afternoon at a bus stop. The woman was targeted for overstaying her yearlong visa. #wyomingnews #immigration #ICE
Immigration attorney notes ‘shift in tactic’ after ICE arrests Turkish woman at Jackson bus stop - WyoFile
The 26-year-old was targeted for overstaying her yearlong visa, DHS says.
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