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The Yellowstone Highway, left, runs along the Wind River through Wind River Canyon with the railroad on the opposite side. The highway is marking its 100th anniversary in 2024.

100 Years Of Driving Through Spectacular Wind River Canyon

At $1 million, building the Yellowstone Highway through Wind River Canyon in 1924 was the most expensive American road project ever. What’s followed has been a century of breathtaking views and nearly unbelievable stories.

Renée JeanMay 26, 2024

Paul Dey, official and certified beer judge, enjoying a Jeremiah Johnson Brewing Co. beer at The Safari Club restaurant in Thermopolis.

Wyoming Man Says Becoming A Certified Beer Judge Harder Than Masters In Biology

Paul Dey of Cheyenne has an enviable hobby — he’s a certified beer judge. And he said earning that certification was harder than getting his Master of Biology degree.

Renée JeanMay 26, 2024

Bob Bing works a hat at the Cowboy Shop in Pinedale.

Cowboy Hat 101: What Your Western Topper Says About You

From cut to color to cost, a cowboy hat tells a story. Buying a new cowboy hat when visiting out West is fun and flirty, but wearing one for real Wyoming cowboys and cowgirls is serious business.

Jake NicholsMay 26, 2024

Rod Miller and Midnight

Rod Miller: In Praise of Flawed Horses

Columnist Rod Miller writes, "The poor guy had two strikes against him from the git-go. But he had something intangible that convinced me not to ship him. I can’t describe what that something was. Midnight turned out to be one of the best horses I ever rode."

Rod MillerMay 26, 2024

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Joan Barron: Hugely Unpopular Proposed Book Policy

Columnist Joan Barron writes, "A local newspaper poll recently showed amazingly strong opposition to the Cheyenne school board’s proposed new policy on books."

Joan BarronMay 26, 2024

Jonas Black, organizer of the Hogs for Hope motorcycle rally, talks with rally supporters at the Flaming Gorge Harley-Davidson in Green River, Wyoming, on May 25, 2024.

Motorcycle Rally For Tortured Wolf Rolls Into Green River, Wyoming

A national motorcycle rally held to bring awareness to the wolf torture and killing in Sublette County arrived at the Harley Davidson dealership in Green River on Saturday. The rally concludes on Sunday in Daniel.

Mark HeinzMay 26, 2024

Exterior of Bangkok Thai in Thermopolis, which is run by two brothers form Thailand.

Eating Wyoming: From Bangkok To New York To Thermopolis

Authentic Bangkok Thai cuisine in Thermopolis? Yup. Tanon “James” Thapphum grew up in Thailand, had a food cart in Bangkok, went to cooking school in New York, and then set up shop in downtown Thermopolis.

Renée JeanMay 26, 2024

President Franklin Roosevelt visits the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone during a tour of the Western states in 1937.

Wyoming History: FDR Escaped A Political Pressure-Cooker At Yellowstone

It was September 1937 and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was politically exhausted from unsuccessfully trying to stack the Supreme Court, so he escaped the pressure cooker of Washington, D.C., politics in Yellowstone.

Dale KillingbeckMay 25, 2024

The relative spots in the early morning sky to see the moon and six of the solar system's planets in alignment.

Wyoming Has A Front-Row Seat For Rare Parade Of Planets Lineup

People in Wyoming have a front-row seat to view a rare “parade of planets” lineup of six planets and a crescent moon that will be visible in a line June 4. It's the first time such an alignment has been visible in at least 30 years.

Andrew RossiMay 25, 2024

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Bill Sniffin: Lord, Please Give Wyoming One More Boom

Columnist Bill Sniffin writes: “It is important to note that usually all our recent booms were short-lived, like 5-10 years. One bust that I lived through was 20 years, 1982-2002. That was a long dry spell.”

Bill SniffinMay 25, 2024

A locked gate blocks access to the west end of the Boswell Road, off Highway 230 in southern Albany County.

As Wyoming Camping Season Kicks Off, Popular Snowy Range Road Remains Closed

Jurisdiction over Boswell Road, a popular public lands access in the Snowy Range Mountains, remains murky and the road is still officially closed to the public as camping season kicks off in Wyoming.

Mark HeinzMay 25, 2024

The folks at Colorado State University are excited for its corpse flower to bloom for the first time over the Memorial Day weekend. Here, Tammy Brenner, CSU's plant growth facility manager, measures the flower, which grows several inches a day leading up to its infrequent blooms, generally years apart.

Gigantic Corpse Flower Set To Bloom Over Memorial Day Weekend

Cosmo, a rare 7-year-old corpse flower at Colorado State University, is preparing to bloom for the first time over Memorial Day Weekend. The gigantic flower, which can grow up 12 feet tall, is known for the overwhelming stench of death it produces when it blooms

Andrew RossiMay 25, 2024

UPS driver Wes Korczyncski delivers a food box from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service Meals to You program in August 2020 to a rural home in Texas.

Wyoming UPS Drivers Call Out Company On Rural Delivery Practices

One current UPS driver told Cowboy State Daily UPS falsifies delivery records for rural customers. A former UPS driver said many times medications and frozen food sat in warehouses for so long they thawed out and went bad, but were delivered anyway.

Renée JeanMay 25, 2024

Bill Schott, supervisor of the wastewater treatment plant for the Laramie Public Works Department, stands along a 2-mile stream of nonpotable water treated at the plant, with the effluent eventually making its way to the Laramie River.

Sewage Treatment Plants All Across Wyoming Are Falling Apart

Signs of age are beginning to cripple Wyoming’s sewage treatment system. Some cities are in dire need of tens of millions of dollars to upgrade their systems.

Pat MaioMay 25, 2024

A ladder is used to climb up to the top of 4420 during restoration efforts.

Engine 4420 Helped Save Evanston 100 Years Ago, Now Evanston Saving Engine 4420

Engine 4420 is a workhorse of a switch steam locomotive that helped saved Evanston in the 1920s. Now it’s 4420’s turn to be restored to its former glory.

Renée JeanMay 25, 2024

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The Roundup: A Conversation With Guy Eastman

Host Wendy Corr chats with Cody's Guy Eastman who represents the third generation of the famous outdoor multimedia family that launched Eastman's Hunting Journal, a television show, and a hugely popular YouTube channel.

Wendy CorrMay 25, 2024

Ozzie Knezovich

Sheriff Says Honor Wyoming’s Out-Of-State Organizer Has Ties To Bundy Standoff

A Wyoming native and longtime sheriff of Spokane, Washington, says he’s very familiar with the lead organizer of the murky new political group Honor Wyoming, including that he has ties to the 2016 Bundy standoff in Oregon.

Leo WolfsonMay 25, 2024

State Rep. Landon Brown, R-Cheyenne.

Pro-Business Group Pulls Endorsement Over Legislator's Testimony In Support Of Rapist

A libertarian-leaning, pro-business group withdrew its endorsement Friday from Wyoming state Rep Landon Brown because he spoke in support of a convicted rapist at a Thursday sentencing hearing.

Clair McFarlandMay 24, 2024

Matt Balcazar, who works at PacifiCorp’s Dave Johnston coal-fired power plant in Glenrock, isn’t happy with PacifiCorp after he’s had trouble getting them to listen to him about why he needs long-term medical care following a coal dust fire at the Dave Johnston plant on Nov. 2, 2022. This is a photo of Balcazar shortly after he was airlifted by helicopter from the Dave Johnston plant to the burn unit of the Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, Colorado.

Life Will Never Be The Same For Pair Caught In Flash Fire At Wyoming Power Plant

Barely four weeks on the job, electrician Matthew Balcazar and a co-worker were severely burned when a coal-dust combustion erupted in a storage silo at the Dave Johnston power plant near Glenrock, Wyoming.

Pat MaioMay 24, 2024

Kandace Sitting Eagle

Accused Wyoming Child Torturer Doesn’t Want Kids To Testify At Her Trial

A Wyoming woman accused to torturing her 13-year-old son, whom police reportedly found in a crawl space with broken bones and starving, petitioned the court this week to not let any of her other five children testify against her.

Clair McFarlandMay 24, 2024

Gov. Mark Gordon, left, and state Rep. John Bear, R-Gillette.

Governor Gordon Blasts Back At Latest ‘Sniping’ From Freedom Caucus

Gov. Mark Gordon offered a blistering response Thursday to a Freedom Caucus letter sent to him earlier this week demanding he sue the federal government over a new ban on coal production.

Leo WolfsonMay 24, 2024

State Sen. Tim Salazar, R-Riverton, left, and Elizabeth Philp.

Fremont County Pro-Life Champion Has Challenger For Republican Primary

Pro-life champion and three-time incumbent state Sen. Tim Salazar has a Republican primary opponent in Shoshoni rancher Elizabeth Philp.

Leo WolfsonMay 24, 2024

A Glock Switch is a device that turns a Glock pistol into a rapid-fire firearm.

BRIEF: Feds Don’t Want To Return Wyoming Man's Illegal Machine Gun

After taking an illegal 9 mm Glock converted to a machine gun — and other weapons — from a Worland, Wyoming, man last year, the federal government asked a judge Friday to let it keep the guns.  

Clair McFarlandMay 24, 2024

This black bear was treed for hours in a Golden, Colorado, neighborhood. In a final effort to flush the bear out, wildlife officials blased Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" at it. Seems, as the agency posted, "black bears don't mind Black Sabbath."

Blasting Black Sabbath’s ‘Iron Man’ Doesn’t Scare Colorado Bear Out Of Tree

“Black bears don’t mind Black Sabbath” a Colorado wildlife agent quipped after a failed attempt to haze a bear by blasting it with the legendary heavy metal band’s classic anthem “Iron Man.”

Mark HeinzMay 24, 2024

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