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Thursday, families, friends and well-wishers filled the Laramie Regional Airport hangar for the anticipated arrival of the 133rd company of the Wyoming National Guard. Gov. Matt Mead, along with other members of the legislature traveled from Cheyenne to welcome the soldiers...

On Thursday, the 133rd Engineer Company of Wyoming National Guard will return to Laramie after serving nine months in Bahrain. The company is set to arrive at the Laramie Regional Airport at 8:10 a.m. Deidre Forester, State Public Affairs Officer for the Guard, says that the homecoming ceremony will include speeches by Governor Matt Mead and Major General Luke Reiner...

With the recent death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman (who passed away from a suspected heroin overdose on February 2, 2014), heroin has become a national topic of discussion. Leaving law enforcement officers in towns everywhere, even Laramie, keeping an ever-present eye open for the dangerous drug...

Brook trout caught in Laramie area lakes, or in Area 5, are now included in the six-trout limit, set by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department on January 1, 2014. This restriction, however, does not apply to brook trout caught in streams...

The University of Wyoming will conduct no further searches for a new president. On  Friday, UW officials held a press conference officially changing Dr. Richard McGinity's status  from interim to full-time President. McGinity, now the 25th president of the University, replaces President Sternberg who resigned after a brief four-month term in office...

In 1997, Chief Washakie was designated as the second Wyoming  individual to be memorialized with a statue in Washington D.C. A committee was organized to raise funds and  create the sculpture of the Chief.  The Wyoming legislature allocated $180,000 for the project...