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The Campbell County Fire Department responds to an early season grass fire last week.

Northeast Wyoming Already Blowing Up As Wildfire Hot-Spot

Wyoming’s premier national forests might be safe from a nasty fire season, but in the northeast corner of the state, it’s already blowing up — and expected to get worse.

Mark HeinzMarch 25, 2024

Dave Simpson: Have The Republicans 'Gone Off The Rails'?

Columnist Dave Simpson writes, "Nah. The labels have changed, but the debate in the Wyoming Legislature isn't that much different from what we saw decades ago."

Dave SimpsonMarch 25, 2024

Helicopter, Drones Called In To Search For Missing Wyoming Woman

Multiple agencies are searching for Tami L. Sturgeon, 55, a Gillette, Wyoming, woman missing since Saturday afternoon, including using drones and calling in a helicopter.

Andrew RossiMarch 25, 2024

Guest Column: Why We Will Not Call A Special Session

Senate President Ogden Driskill and House Speaker Albert Sommers write, "A special session would require 8 - 10 days and cost approximately $35,000 a day. Should we spend $350,000 of taxpayer money because we couldn’t get our job done within the calendar that we had agreed upon?"

CSD StaffMarch 25, 2024

A railcar carrying 60,000 pounds of Dyno Nobel ammonia nitrate, a chemical fertilizer that also can be used to make explosives, left Cheyenne full and arrived two weeks later in California empty.

Railroad Still Investigating 30 Tons Of Missing Dyno Nobel Explosive

Coming up on a year after 30 tons of ammonium nitrate went missing on a train ride from Dyno Nobel’s Cheyenne plant to California, railroad authorities say they’re still investigating what happened to it.

Pat MaioMarch 25, 2024

Wyoming Senate President Ogden Driskill, R-Devils Tower, left, and House Speaker Albert Sommers, R-Pinedale.

Driskill, Sommers Won’t Call For Special Session To Overturn Governor’s Vetoes

Senate President Ogden Driskill and House Speaker Albert Sommers said Monday they won’t comply with requests from some Wyoming legislators to call for a special session to overturn Governor Gordon’s vetoes.

Leo WolfsonMarch 25, 2024

Guest Column: Governor Gordon Unconstitutionally Plays Politics with People’s Lives

Guest columnist Rep. Jeremy Haroldson writes, "The governor issued a line-item veto to remove funding for an aging water tower in my home of Wheatland - a water tower that is in such poor shape, it could breach at any moment, destroying ten or more city blocks in its wake."

CSD StaffMarch 25, 2024

The text Cowboy State Daily radio is overlaid on an image of a barn with mountains in the background.

Cowboy State Daily Radio News: Monday, March 25, 2024

Monday's headlines include: * Legislators Call for Special Session After Gov Vetoes * Gordon Vetoes Bill To Repeal Gun-Free Zones In Wyoming * There Really Was A Working Nuclear Reactor At UW 60 Years Ago

Wendy CorrMarch 25, 2024

An exact replica of the Liberty Bell that rests in Independence Hall in Philadephia can be found in a Mills foundry’s lobby.

Did You Know: Wyoming Has A Liberty Bell, And It’s Perfect Right Down To The Crack

A perfect 2,080-pound replica of the Liberty Bell has been on display in the lobby of a Mills foundry for more than 30 years — crack and all. Getting it to crack was an ordeal. They tried a sledge hammer, jackhammer, dry ice, and a heliarc torch.

Dale KillingbeckMarch 24, 2024

This illustration created by the Goddard Space Flight Center show's an artist's concept of the Hercules nova.

Once-In-A-Lifetime Nova Explosion Will Lighten Up Wyoming's Skies This Year

Scientists are predicting a once-in-a-lifetime nova explosion before September. The light from the nova explosion, which happened 3,000 years ago, will reach Earth and be visible to the naked eye. Wyoming will be a great spot to view it.

Andrew RossiMarch 24, 2024

Lou Taubert Ranch Outfitters is an anchor of historic downtown Casper.

Lou Taubert: A Boxer Turned Cowboy And Wyoming Western Wear Legend

Casper's iconic Lou Taubert Ranch Outfitters has for three generations been the go-to spot for working cowboys and those who love the Western lifestyle. It all began when a teen boxer from Germany came to the West to be a cowboy.

Dale KillingbeckMarch 24, 2024

Dozens of huge, mature cottonwoods have come down in Cheyenne recently, replaced by saplings.

Clear-Cutting Cheyenne's Parks: 160+ Cottonwoods Chopped Down & More To Come

There aren’t many trees in Cheyenne. It’s hard to grow them. That’s what makes longtime Cheyenne resident Buck McVeigh so angry at the city for cutting down more than 160 cottonwoods and there’s more to come.

Renée JeanMarch 24, 2024

Three members of the University of Wyoming college student rescue team that served at Medicine Bow Peak in 1955 included Robert Harrower, left, Courtney Skinner and Diggs Lewis.

Wyoming History: Cleaning Up Scene Of 1955 Plane Crash Was What ‘Hell Looks Like’

Robert Harrower, now 87, was 18 when he was tasked with helping clean up human remains from a 1955 plane crash on Wyoming’s Medicine Bow Peak that killed 66. He still vividly remembers the scene as what he envisions “hell looks like.”

Dale KillingbeckMarch 24, 2024

The smiling face of Bredo Morstol is among the first things visitors to the world's first International Cryonics Museum will see. The museum is set up at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, just a couple hours south of Wyoming.

Stanley Hotel In Estes Park Opens World's First Cryonics Museum

A new spirit is haunting the famous Stanley Hotel in Estes Park. It’s Bredo, the Frozen Dead Guy, in the world's first International Cryonics Museum. Cryonics is the technique of deep-freezing a person just after death in the hope that scientific advances will one day allow that person to be revived.

Renée JeanMarch 24, 2024

Rod Miller: Keep It Real, Wyoming

Columnist Rod Miller writes "Logan Gilbert pitches for the Seattle Mariners and doesn’t believe that Wyoming is real. There’s also a Reddit group that disbelieves Wyoming as well, and there are over a thousand members."

Rod MillerMarch 24, 2024

Parking lots at Teton Village fill up fast even at $35-$45 dollars a day. Because Jackson Hole Mountain Resort workers are required to pay for parking, they've been exploiting a hack to park free — until a local cartoonist outed the hack.

Locals Outraged At Cartoonist For Exposing Free Parking Hack At Jackson Ski Resort

Hundreds of employees at Wyoming’s largest ski resort had finagled a way to park for free (regular rates $35 - $45 per day) until a popular Jackson cartoonist accidentally exposed the hack. Now the free ride is over and so too, perhaps, the love affair with the artist.

Jake NicholsMarch 24, 2024

Wyoming History: Two Men ‘Blown To Bits’ In 1921 When Truck Hauling Nitro Exploded

The driver of a truck hauling nitroglycerine and the unlucky hitchhiker he picked up, were “literally blown to bits” in 1921 when it exploded in Bonneville, Wyoming, leaving a hole 16 feet deep. Nearly all 75 buildings in the small community were damaged by the blast.

Dale KillingbeckMarch 24, 2024

Volunteers from animal rescues all over the country worked with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Animals (SPCA) International to find homes for the 70 rescued dogs.

Wyoming’s Kindness Ranch Rescues 10 West Bank War Refugee Dogs

A few days ago, these 10 dogs were refugees in war-torn West Bank, shellshocked and some missing limbs. They were rescued last week by the Wyoming-based Kindness Ranch, a 1,000-acre animal sanctuary near Hartville.

Jen KocherMarch 24, 2024

A pro-class competitor races up Snow King Mountain during the 2023 World Championship Hill Climb.

Jackson Hill Climb A High-Octane Snowmobile Sprint Up North America’s Steepest Ski Run

The World Championship Snowmobile Hill Climb in Jackson this weekend is NASCAR for sledheads, an annual highmarking event that’s high-octane, adrenaline-fueled mayhem straight up the steepest ski run in North America on a snowmobile.

Jake NicholsMarch 24, 2024

After winning this year's NASA TechRise Student Challenge, a group of Evanston eighth graders are now working with scientists and engineers with the space agency to test their thermal moon mapping technology.

Evanston 8th Graders Build Cutting Edge Moon Mapping Tech For NASA

For the second year in a row, a group of Evanston eighth graders has won the NASA TechRise Student Challenge for their thermal moon mapping technology, which they’re developing with the space agency.

March 24, 2024

A large mule deer buck makes his way through a wildlife underpass along Highway 189 between La Barge and Big Piney.

Wyoming Wildlife Getting Used To New Network Of 9 Underpasses In Lincoln County

Since opening in October, the Dry Piney wildlife underpasses along Highway 189 near La Barge have already saved an estimated hundreds, if not thousands, of moose, deer, antelope, and other critters of all sizes.

Mark HeinzMarch 24, 2024

Noted Wyoming photographer Dave Bell of Pinedale says the beginning of spring is the prime time to view and photograph the Milky Way Galaxy.

Beginning Of Spring Is The Start Of Milky Way Season & Wyoming Is Prime Viewing

Astrophotographer Dave Bell says Wyoming is one of the best places in the country for Milky Way season, which just started. His favorite photo, which took him two years to get, has the Milky Way rising out of Square Top in Bridger-Teton National Forest.

Andrew RossiMarch 23, 2024

A 221-year happening will see two broods of cicadas emerge at the same time in the Eastern United States.

Rare 221-Year Cicada Apocalypse In Eastern US Will Bury Wyoming’s Cricket Swarms

Last year, swarming hordes of crickets covered entire towns in Wyoming like Edgerton which was buried by millions of them but that's nothing compared to the rare 221-year cicada apocalypse expected in the East next month. The last time this happened, Thomas Jefferson was president.

Andrew RossiMarch 23, 2024

Seeing Yellowstone from a snowmobile is akin to catching salmon from the river and cooking them over a campfire. But instead of tastes and smells, you’ll remember sights and feelings.

Aaron Turpen: Yellowstone From the Back of a Snowmobile Is the Best Way To Go

Columnist Aaron Turpen writes, "Going to Yellowstone in the winter is a bucket list item. I’ve been to Yellowstone a few times. Always during tourism season. This was the first time I actually heard Old Faithful when it erupted."

Aaron TurpenMarch 23, 2024

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