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Wyoming's 2024 Candidates | WyoFile 2024 Election Guide
Nov 12, 2024 · Welcome to WyoFile's guide to the 2024 election. This guide aims to help voters inform themselves before heading to the polls. Every federal and state legislative candidate was sent a questionnaire crafted by WyoFile reporters and editors about the key issues facing Wyoming. The candidates' responses, or lack thereof, …
State orders demolition of LaPrele dam to avoid 'catastrophic …
Nov 7, 2024 · It is no longer safe to hold any amount of water behind the LaPrele dam, and the long deteriorating 115-year-old concrete structure located 20 miles west of Douglas must be demolished as soon as possible to avoid a “catastrophic failure,” according to state officials.
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Judge strikes down Wyoming abortion bans - WyoFile
Nov 19, 2024 · Constitutional amendment. In her decision, Owens cited a state constitutional amendment that more than 75% of Wyomingites voted for in 2012. As a rebuke of the Affordable Care Act — a.k.a. Obamacare — Republican state lawmakers pushed for the amendment in order, they said, to protect health care choices for people in Wyoming.
Wyoming abortion views hold steady as lawmakers pursue more ...
Nov 1, 2024 · It’s been nearly a year since a Teton County judge heard final arguments in the case challenging Wyoming’s two abortion bans. Both bans are on hold as the state awaits her decision.
Gordon signs property tax relief package into law - WyoFile
Mar 22, 2024 · But not all property tax bills found favor with the governor. Senate File 54 – Homeowner tax exemption would have applied a 25% exemption to the first $2 million of a home’s fair market value. The governor, however, vetoed the bill since it “would have only provided a temporary and very expensive tax exemption to all Wyoming homeowners at the expense of other taxpayers in our energy ...
More work remains in fight to lower Wyoming’s high suicide rate
Sep 18, 2024 · Most of Wyoming’s focus has rightly centered around community-based solutions and tools. The state launched the WY We Care program that values community solutions while creating a process for collaboration between local government, private …
University of Wyoming bucks negative higher education perceptions
Oct 9, 2024 · These days, much is said and written about people questioning the value of higher education. They point to the cost of earning college diplomas, the burden of college debt, the assertion that universities indoctrinate students in a particular political ideology and the opportunities to enter the workforce without college degrees.
Elk Fire destroys 2 homes, swells to 62,000 acres - WyoFile
Oct 6, 2024 · The Elk Fire burning in northern Wyoming destroyed two homes Saturday morning as it swelled amid high winds, authorities there said. The destruction came as the conflagration grew to more than 62,000 acres along the eastern front of the Bighorn Mountains, spurring a wave of evacuations near the town of Dayton.