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Mount Moran, the centerpiece of UW’s Advanced Research Computing Center. (UW Photo) The University of Wyoming now has a second lightning-quick computer for researchers to use. Less than a month after the doors opened on the supercomputer in Cheyenne, officials marked the official opening for “Mount Moran,” a supercomputer designed and built specifically for UW researchers. It is nowh ...

(Photo: xinem, flickr.com A judge has dismissed a wrongful death suit that claimed negligence by federal researchers led to the fatal mauling of a man in Wyoming’s Shoshone National Forest. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Freudenthal ruled Wednesday that researchers had no duty under Wyoming law to warn that a bear had been trapped and released in the area. The ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will spoke at the University of Wyoming Thursday, Oct. 25. (Photo Courtesy of UW) Passing through Laramie after an unsuccessful antelope hunt, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia stopped at the University of Wyoming to make an impassioned and humorous case for sticking to the original meaning of the U ...

File Photo (Trevor T. Trujillo, Townsquare Media) A 27-year-old man is accused of hiding out in the cooler of a Cheyenne liquor store so he could drink for free after hours. Police say surveillance camera footage shows Sean A. Moore entering the cooler at DT’s Liquor Mart at 10:30 pm on Wednesday.  Th ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — High fire danger is returning to the eastern half of Wyoming. A warm front is expected to bring warm, dry and windy weather to the region. The National Weather Service says winds will gust by as much as 35 mph through Friday evening ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Fire managers say a wildfire has been growing in the Teton Wilderness but it’s been so smoky they haven’t been able to determine how much it’s spread. The North Buffalo Fire was still listed at 7,500 acres Wednesday, the same acreage reported a day before. An infrared flig ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A new wildfire that started in the Teton Wilderness in western Wyoming over the weekend has grown to about 4,000 acres. The North Buffalo Fire was first reported on Saturday and grew quickly because of hot, dry conditions ...

The federal government plans to announce an end to protections for wolves in Wyoming later this month. Spokesmen from some environmental groups say they plan to review the final wolf delisting rule carefully when it’s issued Aug. 31. They say legal challenges are likely over the state’s plan to classify wolves as predators that can be shot on sight in most areas. Wyoming ...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A fire ban in Natrona County will not stop a weekly Native American spiritual ceremony. Participants in the ceremony and county officials worked out a solution that allows fire to be a part of the services by stationing a county-owned fire truck beside the sweat lodge where the ceremony is held each Sunday ...

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — The risk of new fires starting is high across western and central Wyoming. The National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning through 9 p.m. Friday for the region. A weak monsoonal moisture flow is expected to bring strong wind gusts and dry lightning, making it possible for new fires to start and spread ...

A wildfire in south-central Wyoming’s Carbon County isn’t spreading but continues to burn within its perimeter. The Ferris Fire, about 30 miles northeast of Rawlins, has burned about 8,800 acres and was 67 percent contained Tuesday. Fire manag ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Wildfire experts say states across the West are now at the highest risk of the season for wildfires as hot weather patterns continue to dry out fuels and forests across the region. Ed Delgado at the National Interagency Fire Center says the biggest concern in August comes for Northern Rockies states like Wyoming, Idaho and Montana, as well as Great Basin states like Utah, Neva