Wyoming News

Aggregated Wyoming News Articles

• Colleges Face a Reckoning: Is a Degree Really Necessary?
  
  Wyoming is one of many states that embraced a campaign to encourage more people to enroll in higher education. Some leaders and students wonder if they reached a limit.
  Alan Blinder.  New York Times.  Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:02:21 +0000.
• American icon's grim future inside Yellowstone National Park as tourist boom clashes with nature
  
  Figures from the Grizzly Bear Study Team, a group that tracks bear deaths in Yellowstone's Recovery Zone, show that there has been 63 deaths so far this year.
  Daily Mail.  Mon, 20 Oct 2025 12:40:10 GMT.
• Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement
  
  County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes.
  Adeel Hassan.  New York Times.  Thu, 09 Oct 2025 22:34:43 +0000.
• U.S. Offering Leasing Deals On Federal Lands For New Coal Mines
  
  Federal land reserves of coal are being leased for mining in Alabama, Montana, Utah, Wyoming and North Dakota in new deals accelerating under the Trump administration.
  By Noël Fletcher, Contributor.  Forbes.  Sun, 28 Sep 2025 22:12:07 -0400.
• Plane crashes in Wyoming mountains, killing girl and injuring family
  
  A medical helicopter spotted the downed aircraft after its crew was asked to fly over the area in Bighorn National Forest.
  CBS News.  Wed, 03 Sep 2025 06:26:17 -0400.
• 1 killed, 3 injured in Wyoming mountains plane crash
  
  A small plane carrying four passengers crashed in mountainous terrain in Northern Wyoming, Monday, killing a 13-year-old girl and injuring three relatives, police said.
  ABC News.  Wed, 03 Sep 2025 02:37:17 -0400.
• Missing hiker's body found on Wyoming mountain range a month after eerie final text to wife
  
  Minnesota hiker Grant Gardner was found dead under a ledge near Cloud Peak summit in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains a month after his final text to his wife.
  Fox News.  Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:09:56 -0400.
• Hiker who had been missing for nearly a month found dead in Wyoming forest
  
  After being missing for nearly a month, a man who had left for a three-day hike in Wyoming was found dead in Bighorn National Forest, the sheriff's office said.
  ABC News.  Fri, 29 Aug 2025 11:48:50 -0400.
• What Fed must do now after Jerome Powell's Jackson Hole epiphany
  
  Federal Reserve chairman acknowledges tariffs create only one-time price adjustments, not inflation spirals, as calls grow for aggressive 100 basis point rate cuts.
  Fox News.  Wed, 27 Aug 2025 05:00:01 -0400.
• Fed Chair Powell set to deliver big Jackson Hole speech Friday. Here's what Wall Street expects
  
  Powell is set to deliver what almost certainly will be his last keynote address at the central bank's annual conclave.
  CNBC.  Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:54:50 GMT.

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