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The Wyoming Safety Improvement Fund is now accepting applications from employers for workplace safety contracts. Amy Richards reports. Governor Matt Mead says with the state already having had 19 large fires so far this year and the fire season not over yet, it’s impossible to estimate what the final cost of fighting fires in the state this summer will be. But he says it will certainly be “quite s

Governor Matt Mead says he is “optimistic” that congress will restore AML funding. a recently passed Federal Transportation Funding Law put a cap on how much Abandoned Mine Land payments states can get. The Wyoming Territorial Prison in Laramie is attracting more tourists. Doug Randall reports. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.

The 17th annual Susan G. Komen Wyoming Race for the Cure® is Saturday, August 11 at the Wyoming State Capitol in Cheyenne! Join thousands in Wyoming who will participate in the Race to eradicate breast cancer. You can register early online at www... Read More ...

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is asking the public for ideas to help the agency avoid a future budget crisis. Doug Randall has the details.  More Farmers Markets  are springing up across the country, that’s according to U.S.D.A. Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.

Kenneth Sims, an Associate Professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Geology and Geophysics, has received a National Science Foundation Grant to study Mount Erebus in Antarctica. Amy Richards has a report. Solvay Chemicals has installed  a methane recovery facility at it’s trona mine in Sweetwater County. Business Reporter Sharon Fain  has details. Click past jump to listen to Wyoming R

Small, nonfarm businesses in 13 Wyoming counties and neighboring counties in Colorado, Montana,  Nebraska and South Dakota are eligible to apply for low‑interest federal disaster loans from the U. S. Small Business Administration (SBA) ...

T he judge in a lawsuit filed by the widow of a man killed by a grizzly bear has decided not to visit the mauling site near Yellowstone National Park. Doug Randall has the details. Wyoming Air National Guard and F.E. Warren Air Force Base firefighters demonstrated the new Mobile Aircraft Fire Trainer  (MAFT) Friday. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced legislation this week that would restore the money owed to coal producing states from the Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Trust Fund. In June, the House and Senate passed a two-year transportation bill which included a provision that raided trust funds used for reclaiming abandoned mine lands.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from environmental groups that sought to block federal coal leases in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on the grounds that burning the coal would contribute to global warming.  Clay Van Houten, Emerging Diseases Unit Chief for the Wyoming Department of Health, says the number of Whooping Cough (aka Pertussis) cases in Wyoming are up this year. Click past the jum

Wyoming Air National Guard and F.E. Warren Air Force Base firefighters demonstrated the new Mobile Aircraft Fire Trainer (MAFT) Friday. F.E. Warren Fire Chief John McDougall says the MAFT allows firefighters to train locally on how to safely extinguish an aircraft fires. He says in the past, crews had to travel across the country annually to receive the training.