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The season starts with invitationals scheduled to take place at Cheyenne, Douglas, Riverton, Rocky Mountain, Lingle-Ft. Laramie, Saratoga and Cokeville. Continue reading…
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Los Angeles sued the Justice Department on Tuesday over the Trump administration's threat to cut millions in federal funding for so-called sanctuary cities, which limit their cooperation with federal authorities on immigration enforcement. The lawsuit...

A decades-long effort to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, the nation's largest estuary, is showing signs of success. But scientists now say progress could be hindered by a hydroelectric dam, located on the Susquehanna River in northern Maryland. The...

The developer behind the Dakota Access Pipeline , which for months drew thousands of protesters , has sued Greenpeace and several other environmental groups for their role in delaying the pipeline's construction. In the racketeering lawsuit it filed in...

The British publisher of an academic journal has reversed a decision to take down hundreds of articles from its Chinese website. In a statement released Monday, Cambridge University Press said it's reposting the more than 300 articles to "The China...

The push for renewable energy in the U.S. often focuses on well-established sources of electricity: solar, wind and hydropower. Off the coast of California, a team of researchers is working on what they hope will become an energy source of the future —...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE6WgHd5rHg The vicious shade-throwing by the Treasury secretary's wife, Louise Linton, Monday was intended to put an Instagram commenter on blast, but it almost immediately blew up in the Scottish-born actress' perfectly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-sJp1FfG7Q Product placement is everywhere these days — including in our music. This fact struck pop culture reporter Kim Bhasin at Bloomberg recently when he was listening to "Bad and Boujee" by Migos and Lil Uzi Vert....

This week's Trump presidency Internet sideshow (see also: Melania appearing to bat Trump's hand away, the president's aggressive handshakes , the frenzy over Kellyanne Conway's inauguration outfit ) came in the form of a couture-heavy Instagram post from...

While the university is expecting the largest freshman class it has ever seen, the overall enrollment at UW will remain relatively stable. Aguayo said this is because the university also just graduated its largest class ever this year. Continue...

Author Karl Ove Knausgaard — known for his six-volume autobiographical series, My Struggle — has embarked on a brand new multi-part project. Autumn , the first in a four-part quartet, is a collection of texts, each focused on a single subject. In these...

The four suspected members of a terror cell — the only members believed to be alive — appeared in a Madrid court Tuesday in connection with the attacks in Spain last week that killed 15 people. The hearing took place behind closed doors. But numerous...

Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: For decades, Alaska has saved its oil money in a sovereign wealth fund, a giant savings account. Well, now the oil and the money are drying up. And the man who pushed Alaska to create that fund...

Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The White House has billed its new Afghanistan strategy as a regional approach. That means getting Pakistan to do more to fight terrorism and getting India and other players to help with...

Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: President Trump spoke of a regional approach to the conflict in Afghanistan last night, including a pledge to further develop the U.S. strategic partnership with India. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED...

In the wake of congressional Republicans' failure to pass a health care bill, two governors from different parties are going to bring their own ideas to Washington. Staff for Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a...

During the eclipse, the Fort Laramie B & B saw a bigger crowd than they have ever seen. The four-bedroom lodge saw more than a hundred camped out. The crowd was comprised of a family reunion, researchers, and tourists all gathered together. A group from...

Brent Deppe is taking me on a tour of the farm supply business, called Key Cooperative , that he helps to manage in Grinnell, Iowa. We step though the back door of one warehouse, and our view of the sky is blocked by a gigantic round storage tank,...

Two more Wyoming football games will be televised this fall with the AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain and the Mountain West Conference announcing their schedule Monday. Continue reading…
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German police stopped a vehicle Saturday night, only to find the father and son inside allegedly hauling a heap of ecstasy. The roughly 5,000 pills packed in a handful of bags had a street value of nearly $46,000, according to authorities in Osnabrück ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY5A2dPZVnQ The very best joke of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as determined by a poll of the British public, was delivered by Ken Cheng . In a deadpan voice, of course. "I'm not a fan of the new pound coin ," Cheng...

If you've been experiencing headaches, nausea or both (and you're neither hungover over or pregnant), these could be side effects of the the solar eclipse. Continue reading…
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Muslim men in India will no longer be able to terminate their marriages in a matter of moments, after a split decision by the country's Supreme Court overruled the practice of "triple talaq." Previously, Muslim men (and only men) could irrevocably end...

Move-in day for University of Wyoming students is Monday, Aug. 28 and the City of Laramie is working to get the intersection on 15th and Grand Avenue open before students start arriving. Continue reading…
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The Albany County Planning office is offering vouchers to residents to dispose of tires and refrigerators at the Laramie landfill free of charge. Continue reading…
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The Wyoming Department of Transportation says the 68 percent increase was most pronounced in Laramie County, which saw 209,394 vehicles more than average for the third Monday in August. Continue reading…
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The Denver Post referred to a CDOT news release several days ago when it reported the traffic on I-25 could be as bad as six Denver Broncos football games letting out simultaneously. Continue reading…
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Reba Brenner was more than elated to know that she was the first University of Wyoming student selected for a prestigious internship program to conduct meaningful research this summer at the famed St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis,...

A University of Wyoming Ph.D. student recently received the highest honor bestowed by the American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) on a graduate student.
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University of Wyoming fall semester classes will begin Wednesday, Aug. 30. UW business and administrative offices will observe regular hours (8 a.m.-5 p.m.) beginning Monday, Aug. 28.
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A University of Wyoming Extension educator serving southeast Wyoming has received recognition for helping provide Wyoming residents agricultural and horticultural information.
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As part of the 13th annual College Colors Day celebration, the University of Wyoming is encouraging fan support across social media for the Cowboys. The grand prize is a chance to win an all-expenses-paid trip to the College Football Playoff National...

How to get more out of grazing and protect grass resources is the focus of the Basics of Rangeland Management workshop Thursday, Sept. 7, at the Lance Creek School/Kremer’s Ranch northwest of Lusk.
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The University of Wyoming’s Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute (EORI) has hired a petroleum industry veteran to assist with the institute’s technical outreach efforts.
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A weekly look at Wyoming business questions from the Wyoming Small Business Development Center (WSBDC), part of WyomingEntrepreneur.Biz, a collection of business assistance programs at the University of Wyoming.
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The University of Wyoming cut the ribbon today (Thursday) on the High Bay Research Facility -- a large, flexible, state-of-the-art laboratory facility for cutting-edge oil and gas research.
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After growing up in the flatlands of eastern South Dakota, Jordan Jensen got his first taste of Wyoming’s high country by participating in an archaeology field school in the Cowboy State as an undergraduate at the University of Tennessee-Martin.
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