Around Wyoming

Entertainment

Food

Sports

Obituaries

Wyoming Life

Heinz mark

Mark Heinz

Outdoors

Wildlife

Bear v wolf 5 19 25

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

<title>Momma Grizzly Doesn’t Mess Around When Wolf Tries To Snatch Her Tiny Cub | Cowboy State Daily</title>

The first grizzly bear to appear this spring with a new cub in Yellowstone National Park’s Lamar Valley wasn’t messing around when she fended off a huge wolf trying to snatch her tiny cub.

Momma Grizzly Doesn’t Mess Around When Wolf Tries To Snatch Her Tiny Cub

Headshot of Cowboy State Daily's business and tourism reporter, Renée Jean

Renée Jean

Business & Tourism

Business

National Weather Service Cheyenne IMG 3154 5 19 25

<title>Short-Staffed Cheyenne National Weather Service Office Ends 24/7 Monitoring | Cowboy State Daily</title>

The National Weather Service forecast office in Cheyenne is short staffed and has killed its overnight shift, ending the office's 24/7 monitoring. Meteorologist Don Day says that could mean less accurate forecasts and less timely warnings for southeast Wyoming.

Short-Staffed Cheyenne National Weather Service Office Ends 24/7 Monitoring

Headshot of Cowboy State Daily's Feature Reporter, Andrew Rossi.

Andrew Rossi

Crime & Courts

Law Enforcement

Climbing on Jackson antler arch 5 5 19 25

<title>Drunk Montana Man Trying To Impress Girls Caught Climbing On Jackson Antler Arch | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A drunk Montana man was reportedly trying to impress girls by climbing on one of the famous antler arches at the town square in Jackson, Wyoming. He got a $100 ticket, and his dumb deed posted to social media.

Drunk Montana Man Trying To Impress Girls Caught Climbing On Jackson Antler Arch

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

Clair McFarland

Courts

Fentanyl sentencing 8 30 24

<title>Drug Dealer Wants His Fatal Fentanyl Overdose Conviction Overturned | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A Greybull man convicted of manslaughter for dealing the fentanyl pills that led to another man’s fatal 2023 overdose now says he got bad advice. He wants his 15- to 20-year prison sentence overturned and another chance at trial or a new plea deal.

Drug Dealer Wants His Fatal Fentanyl Overdose Conviction Overturned

David Madison

Energy

Coal

Shovel operatopr buckskin mine coal gillette 5 19 25

<title>Judge Blocks Firings From Program That Supports Coal Miners With Black Lung | Cowboy State Daily</title>

When the federal government tried to fire a team protecting coal miners from Wyoming to West Virginia from black lung disease, a miner filed a lawsuit. Last week, a federal judge ordered the restoration of a program that screens miners for the disease.

Judge Blocks Firings From Program That Supports Coal Miners With Black Lung

Anna-Louise Jackson

Thorofare Ranger Station 2 NPS

<title>Most Remote Place In Lower 48 Is In Wyoming, But State Not As Rural As It Seems | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Wyoming rightfully lives up to the distinction as home to the most remote place in the continental U.S. That’s the Thorofare Ranger Station in Yellowstone. But when considering what percentage of each state’s population lives in a rural area, Wyoming comes in 12th.

Most Remote Place In Lower 48 Is In Wyoming, But State Not As Rural As It Seems

<title>Mary Lou Griswold | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Mary Lou Griswold

Mary Lou Griswold, 96