Seventeen states, including Wyoming, are reviewing the Albertsons-Kroger merger under state and federal antitrust laws. Opposition continues to build with a consumer lawsuit filed in California and a coalition of 100 entities organizing to stop the merger.
Hemp has long lacked a key link in its supply chain — a processing facility. A Hawk Springs man wants to change that to give the crop the boost it needs to finally take off in the Cowboy State.
A Chugwater history buff has re-discovered the brand of coffee that all cowboys once drank, including those who worked for the Swan Land and Cattle Co. in Platte County. It’s called Arbuckles’ coffee, and Wyoming cowboys still drink it.
U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman got to upgrade her political toolbox to tackle issues facing local Wyoming industry this week with a tour of northern Wyoming businesses, including putting on an apron to cover a “shift” at the Sheridan Home Depot.
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A small coalition of customers sued over the mega merger of Albertsons and Kroger. That’s been followed by an even larger coalition of organizations banding together to fight it. The group contains a few strange bedfellows.
To fight climate change, the U.S. Department of Energy is proposing new efficiency standards for washing machines and refrigerators. Research shows that could reduce reliability, increase repair costs and decrease durability.
Banks in Wyoming don’t have large numbers of uninsured deposits, don’t have the same exposure to the technology sector, and digital banks are required to hold 100% of the value of any digital assets on reserve.
Corey Lynn of Lynn Buys Houses in Cheyenne is known for saving houses not hotels, but she couldn’t let the hotel she remembered from her youth fall apart. She and her business partner Carter Ward found a way to save it from the wrecking ball.
Snowy Mountain is the third-oldest – and once smallest – brewery in Wyoming is maneuvering for a national footprint, including creating a can it hopes will serve as a calling card for the brewery and Saratoga tourism.
Wyoming’s first legal DAO is in the midst of an SEC enforcement action, but company officials say it’s “just a temporary drama.” They’re hopeful, meanwhile, that Gordon will sign Wyoming’s stable token bill into law.
More than two dozen Albertsons customers are suing to stop a $25 billion merger between the largest grocery chains in the U.S. They also want to rewind a recent $4 billion dividend paid out to Albertsons shareholders.
Despite passionate testimony from nearly two dozen construction workers and plumbers, Wyoming state lawmakers advanced a bill Wednesday that would prohibit government entities from bidding union-specific projects.
After waiting about a decade for promised federal regulation of the emerging digital financial landscape, Wyoming lawmakers are making their own. A bill to regulate third-party apps that interface with banks is close to passing the Legislature.
In another round of cost-saving moves, national big-box retailer Bed, Bath & Beyond has announced its closing hundreds of its brick-and-mortar stores, including the Casper and Cheyenne locations in Wyoming.
A bill that would make expand the number of liquor licenses available to include businesses which offer axe-throwing and chicken-roping has passed the House and Senate and is just one step away from hitting Gov. Gordon’s desk.
A new research facility in Laramie was announced on Thursday for what’s promised to be the world’s largest and most advanced indoor agricultural research center. The company has already raised $1 billion for the facility.
Best-selling author CJ Box on Thursday said Wyoming missed out on $90 million in on-the-ground spending for the productions of “Big Sky” and “Joe Pickett” because production companies shot his shows in Canada and New Mexico.
Booze, a Wyoming tradition even before statehood. And to celebrate booze at the Wyoming Tourism Conference, distillers across the state were challenged to make new concoctions. And they succeeded…
Residents are deeply divided over a proposal that would place a 195’ cell tower on the scenic highway between Cody and Yellowstone National Park.
Senate File 93, which would have required disclosing the identify of a trust owning an LLC, has been narrowly defeated in a Wyoming legislative committee.
Skill-based games are age-restricted in Wyoming, and are something the industry itself has told state lawmakers should be limited to adult locations — truck stops, bars and smoke shops. Senate File 41 would accomplish that and was advanced last week.
The union representing 750 Wyoming grocery workers on Wednesday said, “We are disappointed to see a ruling that favors a small number of ultra-wealthy shareholders over the many thousands of essential workers and millions of Americans who will be left to suffer the consequences of the outright financial looting of Albertsons.”
Not only is Cheyenne getting its Barnes & Noble back but the company is considering new locations in Wyoming. The company said it believes brick and mortar locations can work if they personalize the stores to each location.
Senators voted down an amendment that would have removed a 30-cent cap on the state’s cigar taxes from SF 42. The amendment would have gutted a bill that lawmakers say restores fairness for small, mom-and-pop shops that sell premium cigars.
Disney Hotel Cheyenne is a wild-west themed hotel in Paris that is an immersive themed experience built around an entire Old West town complete with restaurants, shops, and jail. It recently celebrated its 30th anniversary.
When the state Legislature passed it in 2007, a law aimed to boost employment training opportunities in Wyoming by allowing contractors to use apprentice programs on public works projects seemed a good idea. In the 15 years since, nobody has used it.
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Flour shortages during the pandemic spurred a shift in direction for Wyoming Heritage Grains, sparking a revival of an industry and a new flour milling operation in the Cowboy State.
Great pizza in cowboy country? Actually, yes. The owner of Pizza Carrello in Gillette says she’s a “tomato jerk” and that’s part of the reason for its success — along with homemade limoncello and cheese from Italy. Her vision started not with food, but with pottery.
Retired Col. Tucker Fagan, former wing commander at FE Warren Air Force Base, told Cowboy State Daily on Friday that the military has other channels to move sensitive information if the U.S. Postal Service is down.
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Amazon told Cowboy State Daily on Friday that they had communicated with Cheyenne postal authorities ahead of time about the gigantic influx of packages which forced the Cheyenne Post Office to close three offices and caused citywide chaos in the postal delivery system.
Sen. Dan Laursen is championing a bill that would prohibit employers from making employees have microchips implanted in their bodies.
There’s a reason that nearly all Cheyenne post offices closed down when Amazon dumped 13,000+ packages off at the same time. There’s an agreement the post office signed with carriers to finish deliveries and they had to scramble employees to get it done.
Two Powell businesses are moving ahead with plans to build electric vehicle charging stations. Car companies are requiring them of dealers who sell EVs.
Cheyenne postal workers say several post offices in Cheyenne were closed on Tuesday after Amazon dropped off 110 pallets of packages at the post office and were refusing to deliver packages in Cheyenne because of the recent storms in Wyoming.
Despite the thousands of customers that had their holidays ruined because of Southwest Airlines, a Cheyenne family made it to their destination. Most passengers on that flight, however, gave up as it was less than half full.
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A Moorcroft community hub for nearly 60 years, Donna’s Diner is for sale, but regulars confident the town’s only café still has plenty of life left.
L&H Industrial in Gillette has grown from a machine shop of six to a multinational company employing 387 people. It’s built parts for NASA and now has its focus on a new space — the nuclear power sector.
Although there are still technical challenges to drone-delivery like when a pilot lost control of an Amazon drone earlier this year and it crashed, causing a fire. Walmart is expanding its drone delivery into 34 new markets by the end of the year. Wyoming hasn’t made the list yet.
A Kroger-Albertsons deal that promises to impact 750 Wyoming grocery workers continues to pursue federal approval, while legal challenges are down to an appeal pending in Washington state.
Despite the price of Ford F-150 Lightning trucks increasing by $15,000 over one year, they’re sold out. Wyoming dealers say there’s been inquiries about the truck but no sales. The truck has a range of 240 miles and can be recharged in 8-10 hours.
With zSpace, entrepreneurs can run simulations of their prototypes, refining them in three dimensions before sending a finished design to a 3D printer.
Auto manufacturers are considering killing the AM radio dial in all of their cars because the frequency of the electric vehicle interferes with reception. Wyoming radio station owners say that’s a bad idea.
Wyoming-based American CryptoFed Dao will get more time to defend itself against SEC allegations that the company failed to provide even basic financial information when it tried to register two digital tokens.
The union that represents 750 grocery workers in Wyoming said when Albertsons and Safeway merged in 2014, lower prices & higher wages were promised. Instead, hundreds of workers lost jobs and retirements while food deserts widened.
Since the state Legislature passed a bill legalizing alcohol delivery, Cheyenne, Jackson, Casper and now Rawlins have OK’d alcohol delivery in their communities.
The Gillette-based Visionary Broadband has announced a $100 million commitment to expand high-speed internet in many communities across Wyoming including Lusk, Dayton, Yoder, and LaGrange.
Demand for service is rising at regional airports across the state, but a pilot shortage has forced airlines to cut the number of available flights at most of the state’s nine commercial airports.
At 10,450 ft. above sea level, Corbet’s Cabin is Wyoming’s highest-altitude restaurant. The eatery, which sits on top of Rendezvous Peak in Teton County, sells more than 500 waffles per day (400+ in the winter).
The snow at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort has been so good this year, skiers tell Cowboy State Daily it feels like midseason even though the mountain resort only opened right after Thanksgiving.
Like most cattle ranchers today, the Meads really needed to diversify their operation to remain profitable. They chose whiskey. Ten years later, Wyoming Whiskey is attracting international attention.
Jonathon DeVries, 32, has autism. He was not just “dipped” in autism, as one family member explained it, “he was dunked.” With his parents, Jonathon has become an entrepreneur.
Pointed questions were just what Wyoming union president Kim Cordova was hoping to hear during a congressional hearing into the merger deal between grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons, and she wasn’t disappointed.
Although Wyoming hasn’t been hit by roving gangs of criminals like other states, coordinated shoplifting efforts have increased which is driving the cost of goods up across the state.
Although some Wyoming communities reported record sales, crowds by and large felt thin at many stores in Wyoming for Black Friday, and even some Small Business Saturday shopping seemed to take a hit in some areas.
After decades of feeding people living in and traveling through Wilson, Wyoming, and being featured on “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,” Nora’s Fish Creek Inn reopens with new owners who have vowed to keep the landmark going and protect the place from developers.
The iconic onion-shaped building in downtown Casper has always been eye-catching from the outside. But the interior was drab and horrible. Thankfully, no longer. Owners Dr. Joe and Diane McGinley have completely overhauled it.
Anticipating supply chain issues, many Wyoming stores are sitting on large inventories for the holiday season, which could mean some good bargains for shoppers.
A congressional subcommittee plans to hold hearings next week to investigate the super-sized merger of two grocery store chains that also has been criticized by Wyoming grocery workers.
In a welcome about-face for Fremont County dairy farmers, state Department of Ag officials approved the sale of raw milk at a local farmers market.
When Wyoming called out Bank of the West for announcing it would divest from fossil fuel investments, the state didn’t have a lot of company. That’s changed, and the recent FTX scandal has highlighted the problem of businesses embracing woke culture.
The hairy, 400-pound gorillas in the room Wednesday at the Governor’s Business Forum in Laramie were inflation and a 3-to-1 ratio of available jobs to workers in Wyoming.
Brad and Jan Cundy lost their son 11 years ago. The parents are painfully aware that Wyoming is ranked No. 1 in the nation per capita for suicide. For them, that’s not just cold statistic.
If the Wyoming Department of Transportation were to follow all the federal guidelines for a program to build and operate EV charging stations along the nation’s roadways, Wyoming would need 17 charging stations at a cost of about $19 million.
Lottery officials announced Tuesday that a winning $2 billion Powerball ticket was sold in California. Wyoming remains one of four states that participate in the lottery that hasn’t had a winner.
Cheyenne IT consultant TJ Doan says he enjoys driving his Tesla Model 3 so much that he works as an Uber and Lyft driver on weekends just for the fun of driving his car.
Despite the astronomical odds, more people than ever before are purchasing Powerball tickets in Wyoming for the chance to win $1.9 billion.
KeeGan Johnson, a Rawlins firefighter, and his family want to bust some of the myths about tarantulas, saying they’re not the malevolent monsters Hollywood makes them out to be. “They’re teddy bears,” he says.
Wyoming’s love for big trucks helped propel the Cowboy State to the top of the list for the number of people with auto payments of $1,000 or more, according to a new Edmunds report.
A Wyoming union representative is cheering a court decision in Washington state to block a $4 billion Albertsons dividend payment to shareholders, which some say was a move to devalue the company and force the FTC to approve an announced merger with Kroger.
While it may seem sacrilegious to some, electric motorcycles are starting to gain a foothold. Even some Harley riders aren’t totally opposed to the idea.
Four states have filed lawsuits in response to the mega grocery merger between Albertsons and Kroger.
What started as a hobby for Cheyenne brothers Mark and Joe Whiteaker has turned into a multi-million dollar international “slime” business. Their products sell in more than 800 locations across the world.
Last year, with the help of investors, the Kerns, sixth generation ranchers in Sheridan County, launched Western Heritage Meats — the third USDA-certified meat processing plant in the state of Wyoming.
A University of Wyoming researcher studying workplace monitoring gave participants a series of tasks as well as an opportunity to cheat. Those who had been told they would be watched were more likely to cheat their employers than those who didn’t know they were being monitored.
According to the Tax Foundation, an independent tax policy non-profit, Wyoming is going into 2023 as having the best tax climate in the nation for doing business.
State Treasurer Curt Meier said the companies the state invests in shouldn’t be involved in woke investing and social credit scores. Companies should act politically neutral, he said.
Longtime Rock Springs grocery worker and union rep says Wyoming should prepare for higher prices and job losses if the proposed multibillion-dollar Kroger-Albertsons merger goes through.
Dr. Joseph McGinley of Casper has developed dozens of medical innovations, and also is advancing how businesses are financed as first Wyoming company to be part of relatively new SEC program.
Twelve states are suing the Biden administration for new regulations which they claim significantly hamper the effectiveness of dishwashers.
With Wyoming lagging near last in the U.S. in available internet speeds and service, Bluepeak’s aggressive plan is building out high-speed fiber-to-home networks around Wyoming and other Western and Midwestern states.
The California-based company that makes high-end pet-grooming supplies is choosing Riverton because of its location and the ability to save on trucking and shipping costs.
Visit Cheyenne President Domenic Bravo sat down for a Q&A with Cowboy State Daily to discuss Cheyenne’s new record for tourism despite a sluggish turnout for Cheyenne Frontier Days.
As “social credit scores” make it hard for oil, gas, coal and nuclear companies to get financing, some asset management firms are offering market-based ‘anti-woke’ financing solutions.
A proposal that will make New Zealand the first nation in the world to tax the farts and burps of livestock emissions would devastate the U.S. cattle industry if it happened here, says lifelong Wyoming rancher and industry advocate.
Wyoming’s first whiskey distillery “Wyoming Whiskey” has been recognized as one of the top 10 craft whiskey distilleries in the nation.
A Cody taxidermist uses spare parts from abandoned projects to make unique and mythic creations like Elkosauruses, ScorpioBeasts, Turtledillos, and more.
Most Wyoming McDonald’s ran out of their Adult Happy Meals within hours of the promotion starting which occurred on October 3. The Happy Meals were supposed to last through the end of the month.
Chinese companies have hundreds of millions of dollars invested in Wyoming. The state’s direct investment from Chinese companies at about $770 million.
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While the Federal Highway Administration has OK’d Wyoming’s EV plan, it denied most exemption requests to the 50-mile charge station rule.
The Wyoming Department of Agriculture has issued fewer licenses to grow hemp each year since the program began, but advocates say the industry needs time to grow.
