Around Wyoming

Entertainment

Food

Sports

Obituaries

Wyoming Life

Employee kate meadows cropped

Kate Meadows

Energy

Green

Moorcroft sign inset 4 24 26

Cowboy State Daily is Wyoming’s largest newspaper with Wyoming’s most experienced journalists. 

<title>Powder River Energy Plans $23.5 Million Solar-Battery Project Near Moorcroft  | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A $23.5 million utility-scale solar generation and battery storage project is moving forward near Moorcroft. It will allow Powder River Energy to be in control of a power generation source for the first time in its 80-year history.

Powder River Energy Plans $23.5 Million Solar-Battery Project Near Moorcroft 

Heinz mark

Mark Heinz

Outdoors

Grizzly hay 4 24 26

<title>Wyoming Places: It's Not Every Day You See A Grizzly Fall Off Some Hay Bales | Cowboy State Daily</title>

When Cody resident Aubrey Slackey saw a grizzly on top of some hay bales near Yellowstone, he started shooting video. Then the grizzly fell off. “He looked like he was embarrassed. He gave me a look like, ‘You didn’t just see me do that,’” he said.  

Wyoming Places: It's Not Every Day You See A Grizzly Fall Off Some Hay Bales

Headshot of Cowboy State Daily's general assignment reporter, Clair McFarland.

Clair McFarland

Politics

Government & Politics

GOP Convention 4 23 26

<title>Wyoming Republican Party Vows To Sue, Won’t Comply With State Laws | Cowboy State Daily</title>

The Wyoming Republican Party said Thursday it won’t comply with state laws governing political parties and will sue to overturn them. “The state has no right to meddle in the internal affairs of the party,” said GOP Chair Bryan Miller.

Wyoming Republican Party Vows To Sue, Won’t Comply With State Laws

Coy Knobel

Don Day Weather

Daycap no play

<title>Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Friday, April 24, 2026 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Chance of snow, breezy in some areas of Wyoming on Friday, otherwise partly to mostly sunny. Possibility of snow in some areas overnight. Highs from the low 30s to low 60s. Lows mainly in the teens and 20s.

Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Friday, April 24, 2026

Teton county 4 23 26

<title>No Affordable Housing: Only 2 Teton County Sheriff's Deputies Live In Teton County | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Working as a first responder in the nation’s richest county illustrates a complex problem: How does a sheriff's deputy who earns a starting salary of $70,000 live in a town where the median home price is $3 million? They don't. Only 2 of 30 live there.

No Affordable Housing: Only 2 Teton County Sheriff's Deputies Live In Teton County

Kolby fedore

Kolby Fedore

Crime & Courts

Courts

Byron Griggs inset 4 23 26

<title>Inmate Serving Life At Rawlins Prison Caught Watching Child Porn On PlayStation | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A man serving life in the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins for sexually abusing young girls was caught by a guard watching child pornograpy on a PlayStation. He said he got files while in an out-of-state prison where security is more “relaxed.”

Inmate Serving Life At Rawlins Prison Caught Watching Child Porn On PlayStation

<title>Brandon D’narro Roberts | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Brandon D’narro Roberts

Brandon D’narro Roberts, 53