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LIST: 2025 Cheyenne Neighborhood Night Block Party Locations
Fifteen block parties will be held throughout Cheyenne on Thursday, July 10, as the community celebrates Cheyenne Neighborhood Night. Now in its 16th year, the community-building event is designed to bring neighbors, businesses, and police...

Eye of the beholder: Nebraska's Interstate 80 Bicentennial sculptures nearing 50
They’ve survived 49 Nebraska summers and winters so far, challenging their viewers to mull the very definition of human art. As the nation marks 250 years of independence in 2026, Nebraska’s abstract Bicentennial sculptures at Interstate 80 rest...

Wildlife, not livestock: Why the Eastern Shoshone in Wyoming are reclassifying buffalo
“This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” Jason Baldes drove down a dusty sagebrush highway earlier this month, pulling 11 young buffalo in a trailer up from Colorado to the Wind River Reservation...

Slight Bump at the Pump for Wyoming Gas Stations this Week
Average gasoline prices in Wyoming have risen 0.8 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.12/g today, according to GasBuddy's survey of 494 stations in Wyoming. GasBuddy also released its Independence Day Forecast projecting the national...

Welcome to Wyoming Football: Max White
LARAMIE -- Wyoming has welcomed nearly 50 new faces this offseason. Transfer portal era, am I right? Jay Sawvel knew a rebuild on defense was in order after losing both starting linebackers and safeties, along with leaders like Jordan Bertagnole...

Curious About UFOs? Wyoming Has Some Surprising Numbers
Unidentified Flying Object, or better known as a UFO. LAB 360 via YouTube LAB 360 via YouTube Wyoming has many stories of people seeing something in the sky that doesn't belong there. Shoot, there are many stories of Wyomingites having stories of...

2024 H-1B petitions: Approvals for employers classified under Utilities industry across Central Wyoming News publication area
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New Jersey native on first rescue mission with Coast Guard helps save 165 Texas flood victims: ‘American hero’
A Coast Guard rescue swimmer is already being hailed as an “American hero” after his very first mission — helping to save the lives of 165 Texas flash-flood victims. “This is what it’s all about, right? Like, this is why we do the job,” said Scott...

Wyoming Drivers Beware Of Your Nasty Car Keys
Mysophobia is the extreme fear of germs. We all know that one person who's always using hand sanitizer or wearing gloves when they touch questionable surfaces. Or parents who won't let their kids be around other kids because of germs. It's a real...

Concealed carry allowed in many Wyoming state government buildings starting Tuesday
Over 21,000 Wyomingites get WyoFile delivered straight to their inbox. Join your neighbors and stay informed with the stories shaping Wyoming. Starting Tuesday, Wyomingites will be allowed to carry guns into state government buildings, with some...

Mike Tyson makes desperate drugs plea to Donald Trump on live TV and claims he 'couldn't live' without cannabis
Boxing icon Mike Tyson made yet another impassioned plea to President Donald Trump to push for the national legalization of marijuana on Monday morning. Marijuana consumption is completely legal for both recreational and medicinal use in 25 of the...

Laws with lookback windows gave Cassie Ventura and others the chance to fight back
Music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was acquitted Wednesday of the most serious charges against him in a trial that exposed allegations of sexual assault and abuse of power, placing a renewed spotlight on survivors who choose to speak out.Combs was...
Wyoming Men’s Swimming and Diving to Join MPSF Starting in 2025-26
WOODLAND, Calif. (6/26/25) – The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) has announced the return of the United States Air Force Academy, University of Nevada Las Vegas, and the University of Wyoming to its men’s swimming & diving programs...

Wyoming to celebrate Statehood Day with events launching America’s 250th anniversary countdown
Wyoming will mark Statehood Day on July 10 with a full day of public events at the Capitol Square in Cheyenne, launching a year-long celebration leading up to America’s 250th birthday in 2026. The festivities will take place from noon to 8 p.m. at...

Wyoming Pilot's Amaizing Flight Over The Bighorns
On this episode of Flying With Glenn (NOT Wyoming radio talk host Glenn Woods) a pilot named Glenn takes his little airplane from Gurnsey, Wyoming, over the Bighorn Mountains. After crossing the mountains, he stops at the airport in Buffalo for a...

Wyoming Workforce Services seeks public input on Quality Child Care Program rule changes
The Wyoming Department of Workforce Services is inviting public feedback on its updated Quality Child Care program rules, aimed at improving access to information about scholarships and grants. Following a reorganization of the program’s rules,...

Critical Minerals of Peril and Power: The Five-Element Spine of the Modern Arsenal
The pilot slides his thumb across the F-35’s throttle and the jet answers with a whiplash of thrust, airframe flexing like a living blade. Hidden beneath that carbon-fiber skin is a cathedral of metals the color of dusk and midnight: magnets that...

Artist moves from architecture to watercolor
By Laura A. Hobson Staff Reporter LHobson@cherryroad.com BRIGHT – Some people choose another path when they retire. Helmut Kientz, 76, is a good example. After a career as an architect, he now paints watercolor regularly after studying in the...

Dustin Hoffman and Faye Dunaway Once Shared the Screen in This Electric ‘70s Western That Holds a 91% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Western genre evolved significantly in the 1960s, as the “spaghetti” subgenre became quite popular thanks to films like A Fistful of Dollars and Django. While there was some crossover success stateside, American cinema was experiencing the...

Wyoming County purchases new communications tower
Wyoming County will now have a new communications tower in the northwestern part of the county where services can sometimes be lacking. At a Wyoming County Commissioners meeting on Tuesday morning (June 24), the county agreed to the purchase of a...