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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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