Renée Jean
Renée Jean is the business and tourism reporter for Cowboy State Daily and is based in Cheyenne. Previously, Renée spent seven years covering energy and agriculture in North Dakota and Montana. She has won many writing awards over a 30-year career, and has written magazine articles for Guideposts.
Latest from Renée Jean
Ian Munsick’s Latest Album Comes With A Documentary Celebrating Wyoming
When Sheridan's Ian Munsick moved to Nashville 10 years ago and became immersed in a city with some of the world’s best songwriters, he made himself a promise. He was not going to forget his Wyoming roots.
Renée JeanFebruary 11, 2024
How Volunteers And Valentine’s Day Saved Hartville, Wyoming's Post Office
To save its post office, the tiny town of Hartville created a commemorative Valentine's Day stamp in 1996. The stamp has become so popular, collectors from around the world seek it out. The Pony Express joins in too with a Valentine's Day-themed ride to the town.
Renée JeanFebruary 11, 2024
Wyoming’s Only Pro Racing Team In Lead To Defend Endurance Cup Title
In only its third season, Wyoming’s only professional auto racing team has won one IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup and is in the lead for another. It all started 20 years ago when Herb Korthoff bought a $600,000 car to get things started.
Renée JeanFebruary 10, 2024
Jack In The Box, Del Taco To Open Soon In Wyoming
Jack in the Box has announced that it and Del Taco will build new stores in Wyoming, bringing two entirely new fast-food franchises to Wyoming. The expansions are riding on the coattails of what Jack in the Box says have been record profits in 2023.
Renée JeanFebruary 08, 2024
U.S. Postal Service Says Casper Mail Processing Should Move To Billings
The U.S. Postal Service has concluded that some of Casper’s mail processing should move to Billings, which means that along with a similar move in Cheyenne, Wyoming would be left without a major mail processing center.
Renée JeanFebruary 07, 2024
Wyoming Mourns Country Superstar Toby Keith, A Cheyenne Frontier Days Favorite
Wyomingites are remembering country music superstar Toby Keith, who died Monday. Country music star and Moorcroft native Chancey Williams said he'll never forget the time he got to sing “Should’ve Been a Cowboy” with Keith at Cheyenne Frontier Days.
Renée JeanFebruary 06, 2024
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort Remains Locally Owned As Sale Closes
After 32 years of building Jackson Hole Mountain Resort into a Wyoming showplace, Jay, Connie and Betty Kemmerer have sold it to a pair of Jackson Hole insiders, to assure it remains locally owned and independent.
Renée JeanFebruary 05, 2024
Wyoming Has 400 Miles Of Snow Fences To Help Keep Roads Open In Winter
Although the "lake effect" produces bad conditions in Michigan and New York, scientists say Wyoming is the epicenter of blowing snow. Other areas of the country get snow and get wind but Wyoming gets both like none other.
Renée JeanFebruary 04, 2024
Even Hard-Core Wyoming Carnivores Wowed By Chef’s 7-Course Veggie Showcase
Cheyenne chef Petrina Peart hosted a two-day popup restaurant with a surprise menu — a seven-course all-veggie showcase that wowed even hard-core Wyoming carnivores.
Renée JeanFebruary 03, 2024
From the Pillage People to Viking Festivals, Viking Culture Overtaking Wyoming
From the "Pillage People" Viking band in Gillette to a Viking musical in Jackson to a Viking-themed Fire and Ice Festival in Buffalo, you can't get away from Vikings in Wyoming. Vikings are everywhere.
Renée JeanFebruary 03, 2024
Jackson Hole Spec Homes Offer Luxury For Less — Only $10.5 Million If You Act Now
Jackson, Wyoming, has a few new spec homes coming online. And like most spec homes, they tend to offer some luxuries for less than a custom home. Like the Karns Hillside home, which is listing for $10.5 million.
Renée JeanFebruary 02, 2024
Nightmares Still Vivid In Cheyenne Neighborhood Destroyed By Broken Water Main
Cheyenne children and parents flooded out by a broken water main on Darnell Place say they continue to suffer vivid nightmares even as they struggle with the real-life nightmare of how to save their waterlogged homes.
Renée JeanFebruary 01, 2024
Cheyenne Rallies For Flooded-Out Families Left With Destroyed Homes
A Cheyenne man who calls himself a "middle class working stiff" has stepped up to lead the charge raising money for families whose homes were destroyed when a 12-inch city water main shattered last week and flooded them out.
Renée JeanJanuary 31, 2024
Cheyenne Families Have No Homes, Or Answers, After Catastrophic Water Main Break
Homeowners have been told their insurance won't cover damage from a catastrophic water main break that ruined several homes in Cheyenne last week because it's from a city water main. But they're getting few answers from the city.
Renée JeanJanuary 29, 2024
Powell Drone Maker Earns Coveted FAA Certification, One Of The First In U.S.
Drone companies that have successfully threaded the FAA’s certification needle are few and far between. But one of them is now located in Powell, and that could help speed lifesaving uses of drones for people in Wyoming.
Renée JeanJanuary 29, 2024
Why Are There People Driving Electric Vehicles In Gillette, Wyoming?
One electric vehicle driver in Gillette says he gets “a lot of crap” for driving an EV. But he tells them he knows where his electricity comes from, and it’s coal. “I’m not from California and I don’t have my head stuck in the sand.”
Renée JeanJanuary 27, 2024
How Thermopolis, Wyoming, Got Its Name Is As Legendary As The Name Itself
History doesn’t record the exact conversation that led to the naming of Thermopolis but it does involve whiskey, outlaws, and a cowboy with a thick Irish brogue who convinced the townspeople it was the perfect name.
Renée JeanJanuary 27, 2024
Casper College Bareback Rider In Horrific Rodeo Wreck Out Of Hospital
Austin Broderson, the 19-year-old Casper College cowboy who survived being dragged and trampled by a horse Jan. 15 at the National Western Stock Show Rodeo in Denver, is out of the hospital and on his way back home.
Renée JeanJanuary 26, 2024
Built In 1914, Wyoming’s Oldest Operating Soda Fountain In Chugwater Is For Sale
The Chugwater Soda Fountain — Wyoming’s oldest continuously operating soda fountain built in 1914 — went up for sale on Thursday for $445,000.
Renée JeanJanuary 26, 2024
Nuclear Plant Could Bring 1,600 Jobs To Kemmerer, Wyoming
As the TerraPower nuclear demonstration plant prepares to break ground in Kemmerer, the small Wyoming town of 2,500 is preparing for up to 1,600 jobs that come with it, and big economic growth for the region.
Renée JeanJanuary 25, 2024
U.S. Postal Service May Move Casper Mail Processing Facilities To Montana
Already moving ahead with possibly moving some mail services from Cheyenne to Denver, the U.S. Postal Service now says it will study doing the same in Casper -- but possibly moving some services to Montana.
Renée JeanJanuary 25, 2024