Wyoming Buzz

The Wyoming Legislature is considering a bill that would either allow Wyoming to implement its own state lottery or to participate in a multi-state lottery like Powerball or Mega Millions.

Yellowstone National Park scientists say wolf hunts are proving harmful to their decades-long research after they lost a record number of the predators to this year's hunting season.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Both houses of the Wyoming Legislature have voted to approve the supplemental budget bill.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Preliminary forecasts for this year's snowmelt in Wyoming are predicting a runoff of about 80 percent of normal. Wyoming's winter mountain snowpack melts off from April to September. Hydrologists with the Natural Resources Conservation Service say the predicted runoff into Wyoming's streams and rivers vary from 15 percent of normal to 99 percent of average...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming's supplemental budget bill faces final amendments in both Houses. The Wyoming House and Senate both have scheduled final reading of the supplemental budget Friday. Differences between their final versions of the bill will be resolved in conference committee later...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A bill that would allow the selection of University of Wyoming and state community college presidents to be closed to the public has passed the Legislature.

A team of scientists led by a University of Wyoming researcher recently reported that the size of trophy horns and antlers of most species of North American big game has declined slightly over the past century, most likely as a result of intensive harvest of males.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming legislative committee is set to hear a bill that seeks to pre-empt any federal crackdown on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.