Threat To State Facilities, Schools Deemed Not Credible
The threat was an apparent hoax.
Gov. Matt Mead
Natrona County Legislators: More Time Needed To Look At Medicaid Expansion
A broad coalition of business and labor groups and health care providers, especially hospitals including the Wyoming Medical Center, supported Medicaid expansion.
Casper, Wyoming Flags Fly At Half Staff To Honor Justice Scalia
The City of Casper is joining the rest of Wyoming and the nation in honoring the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, according to a news release from the city manager's office.
WMC, Other Officials Rip Anti-Medicaid Attitude: ‘They Hate Poor People’
The Legislature's Joint Appropriations Committee's decision last week to reject the governor's proposal to expand Medicaid isn't about the money or trusting the federal government, local hospital officials said this week.
Local Legislators Decry Medicaid Expansion
Any proposal to expand Medicaid will be dead on arrival in the Legislature next month if eight House and Senate members from Natrona County have their way.
Speakers Outline Business, Health, Moral Reasons For Medicaid Expansion
Anne Ladd belongs to the Rotary Club, and she sees there a prime example why Wyoming needs to expand Medicaid.
Trespass, Constitutional Rights Lawsuit Moves Forward In Federal Court
A federal lawsuit is heading to trial after a judge ruled two new trespassing laws to thwart environmental research on open lands pose serious concerns about free speech and other constitutional issues.
WMC Officials: Medicaid Expansion Would Curb Charity, Bad Debt Costs
The state’s failure to implement Medicaid expansion has aggravated a sharp rise in the uncompensated care written off by the Wyoming Medical Center, hospital officials said recently.
Governor’s Proposed Budget Hits Counties Hard
Gov. Matt Mead's proposed budget for 2016-2017 will severely affect cities, towns and counties, according to the president of the Wyoming County Commission Association.
Governor Calls For Endangered Species Act Reform
Wyoming loves its wildlife, Gov. Matt Mead said Wednesday.
It does not love the way the federal government has handled wildlife through the 1973 Endangered Species Act, Mead said at a news conference.
"Roughly 1 percent of all species that have been listed have been delisted," he said...
Wyoming Welcomes Home Vietnam Veterans
Staff Sgt. John Cudney wanted to, but couldn't, serve lunch to some guys 43 years ago.
Cudney and five other soldiers had just arrived by plane from Vietnam to an enclosed hangar at Travis Air Force Base in California after midnight one day in November 1972, he said...
Casper Fire-EMS Sends Help To Lusk; Other Agencies Are Assisting
Casper Fire-EMS joined Wyoming's Homeland Security efforts to help flood-ravaged Lusk on Thursday, its division chief of operations said.