Wyoming

Amid continued standoffs between tribes and states over treaties signed before statehood was achieved, the ruling is a victory for Native rights.

Fights over the Colorado River's most significant tributary are longstanding, intractable, and only getting worse.

Last month, a third cat in Wyoming was diagnosed with the plague, two years after a massive outbreak in Madagascar. Are amoebas or rodents to blame?

Global warming could affect your coffee buzz, Antarctic ice is fast disappearing, and cats in Wyoming are catching the bubonic plague.

Shepard's murderer unsuccessfully claimed gay panic, a defense that's still legal in 47 states.

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Grizzlies can soon be hunted in Yellowstone, Trump can't block you on Twitter, and a young arsonist gets what he had coming.

In Wyoming, where Philip Anschutz is currently building the largest wind farm in the world, coal, which is cheap and plentiful, is the answer to just about everything.

Philip Anschutz wants to turn his 500-square-mile cattle ranch into the world’s largest wind farm. The project would generate four times more electricity than the Hoover Dam, enough to power all of the households in Los Angeles and San Francisco. It would also make Anschutz the nation’s most unlikely environmental hero—if he can ever get the thing built.

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In states whose economic engines run on dirty fuel, teaching kids about climate change is under new attack.

A sweeping new law could make data like photographs and soil samples inadmissible in court.

Should kids be led out of class in handcuffs for being late to school?

The Geowives, a social club for women whose husbands work in the energy industry, is having difficulty attracting new members, but the existing group remains committed to its Tuesday afternoon lunches.

A spiderweb of natural gas sites is making it harder for the antelope to roam.