In denying billionaire Joe Ricketts’ proposal to build a “Little Jackson Hole” in rural Wyoming, Sublette County Commissioner Doug Vickrey said, “I would like Mr. Ricketts to know that with all his wealth, there are some things in this world money cannot buy, and by God I’m one of them.”
According to a 2022 housing study, Cheyenne needs 5,000 more single-family housing units and an additional 8,401 rental units. The lack of housing is a problem all over the state.
The $1.1 billion meat processing facility that was looking at moving to Cheyenne will not likely happen due to the city’s lack of infrastructure.
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Kel-Tec Firearms on Wednesday announced it is expanding to Rock Springs and has purchased a 33,000-square-foot facility. It is expected to bring 250 jobs to the area.
Falcon Car Corporation has announced it will develop a manufacturing plant to assemble full size pickup trucks and buses onsite at a future facility in Sheridan.
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A lumber mill in South Dakota owned by a Hulett, Wyoming family is closing down on Friday due to shortages in available timber.
The eight grants made under the Business Interruption Stipend program, ranging from $2,560 to $32,891, were approved Wednesday, according to a page on the state’s transparency platform website.
Blockchain banking could open new avenues for employment in the Cowboy State, but people should start learning about it as soon as possible, according to self-taught blockchain guru Caitlin Long.
Cheyenne Botanic Gardens volunteers boast theirs is the only botanic gardens in the nation to have a submarine periscope. But the journey that ended with the periscope finding its new home in Cheyenne took a lot of planning, fast thinking and even more luck.
The influence of rapper Kanye West on the community of Cody continues to grow after his purchase of a ranch in Park County.
Laramie is one of three cities selected nationally by the Brookings Institution for a study cataloging the factors involved in creating a vibrant downtown.
By Ike Fredregill, Cowboy State Daily Online shopping is giving the Cowboy State’s brick-and-mortar retailers a run for their money, but it’s also creating new opportunities for local businesses, a Wyoming Business Council spokesperson said. “We’ve added 74 net new businesses and 168 net new jobs to the Wyoming economy in 2018,” said Tom…
Wyoming’s unemployment rate is a good indicator of a healthy economy: people are working and therefore able to buy homes, cars — and Christmas and Hanukkah gifts.
Over 600 Wyoming business people and civic leaders filled the halls of Little America Hotel and Resort in Cheyenne as part of the Wyoming Governor’s Business Forum.
Wyoming’s economy continues to grow, but it’s at a slower pace than in the past – raising the question of whether a recession is in the near future.
A low unemployment rate is creating some difficult situations for Cody’s restaurants.
Wyoming business leaders and U.S. aerospace and defense companies met in Casper this week to explore the chances of increasing Wyoming’s access to the aerospace and defense market.
As revenue from coal continues to decline, many people around the state are looking at new ways to use the state’s rich resource and think outside of the coal box for future portfolio diversification.
Business and government leaders around the Wyoming are scrambling to make sure Wyoming workers remain Wyoming workers as the jobs in the coal industry subside.
An agreement between Wyoming and Taiwan signed earlier this week should increase the amount of Wyoming beef and lamb sold overseas, according to Gov. Mark Gordon.
Like a challenge delivered out of the Old West, a shootout at high noon was held Saturday in Shoshoni, Wyoming.
Of Wyoming’s 23 counties, why is Converse County leading the way economically?
Some Wyoming businesses are starting to introduce their products into the market of Taiwan, thanks in part to assistance from the Wyoming Business Council.
Farmers and ranchers in eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska are facing nature’s deadline as construction crews work to repair an irrigation breach that left 800 irrigators without water.
Tourism officials in Cheyenne are predicting that the city’s annual Frontier Days celebration will bring at least as many people to Cheyenne as showed up for the 2018 event.
As it enters its third decade of existence, the Wyoming Business Council finds itself at a crossroads.
Affordable housing costs, a lack of inventory and Wyoming’s tax structure are contributing to create a seller’s market for Cheyenne homes, according to members of the city’s real estate and lending industries.
Once upon a time, coal helped to usher in a new technological age. So much concentrated energy in such a convenient package helped power the steam engines that drove the Industrial Revolution, transforming the way we live and work. Now, with coal’s future anything but certain, innovators are looking for new uses for the mineral that could fuel a new carbon-based high-tech manufacturing industry.
Residents in many Wyoming cities and towns are pitching in to invigorate their communities in the face of declining populations.
A controversial proposal to enact a temporary hiring freeze in the city’s $56 million budget for Fiscal Year 2020 was eliminated upon third and final reading before the Cheyenne City Council’s Committee of the Whole on Wednesday evening.
An upgrade to Wyoming’s nuclear weapons system could be coming to Cheyenne’s FE Warren Air Force Base — but is Cheyenne ready?
Gordon opened the WY-Wind River: Economic Development & Entrepreneurship Symposium on Wednesday at the University of Wyoming with remarks about moving forward together with Wyoming’s Native American population, embracing the outdoors and supporting entrepreneurship.
This weekend in Casper, high school students came together to hear from a variety of speakers including Governor Mark Gordon, entrepreneur Jerad Stack, and Leadership Wyoming Executive Director Mandy Fabel, among others at the second annual LIFT Wyoming Conference.
Few kids see the construction trades as a potential career choice these days, but a new partnership between Wyoming’s public and private sectors is working to change that.
