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Wyoming Game and Fish Department names 3 director finalists
- The Wyoming Game and Fish Department announced Monday that candidates from Wyoming, Colorado and Arizona make up the three finalists to become the department's new director.Seven people applied to lead the department, which manages wildlife and regulates hunting and fishing for the state. The director will oversee an agency with a $65 million annual budget and about 450 employees. Court orders American Indian to trial for shooting eagle
- An American Indian who shot a bald eagle for use in a tribal religious ceremony must stand trial, a federal appeals court has ruled.A three-judge panel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver on Thursday reversed a 2006 lower court ruling that dismissed a criminal charge against Winslow Friday, a Northern Arapaho Indian who has acknowledged shooting a bald eagle in 2005 during the tribe's Sun Dance. 
Air pollution in Wyo. community rivals that of big cities
- There isn't anything metropolitan about this tiny unincorporated town in southwest Wyoming, where a few single-family homes and a volunteer fire station stand against a skyline of snowcapped mountains.But Boulder, with a population of just 75 people, has one thing in common with major metropolitan areas: air pollution thick enough to pose health risks. Wyo sends minimum-security inmates to max security prison
- Sixteen minimum-security inmates from Wyoming are among the more than 100 inmates the state has sent to a maximum-security Virginia prison that has been the target of human rights complaints over the years.Some civil liberties groups say Wallens Ridge State Prison, in Big Stone Gap, Va., is inappropriate for minimum-security inmates. Virginia built the prison in the late 1990s as a "supermax" facility exclusively for the most dangerous inmates, but downgraded it to a maximum-security prison in 2002. 
Beetle-ravaged forests prompt campground closures in Rockies
- Vacationers will have fewer places to pitch their tents this summer in Colorado and Wyoming, and they can place the blame on bugs.The U.S. Forest Service has closed some popular campgrounds in the two states because of concern that trees killed by the bark beetles that are ravaging forests across the West could topple onto unsuspecting visitors. Casper editor leaving for job in Coos Bay, Ore.
- Casper Star-Tribune Editor Clark Walworth has been named editor and publisher of The World newspaper, in Coos Bay, Ore.Star-Tribune Publisher Nathan Bekke announced Walworth's departure to the Star-Tribune staff on Tuesday. Juvenile facility was deemed unfit for adults years ago
- A Casper juvenile facility has been locking up youth in jail space that was deemed unsuitable for adults years ago and in ways that increase the risk of youths committing suicide or physically or sexually assaulting one another, according to a report obtained Friday by The Associated Press.The report came out three months before an assault and other alleged incidents at the privately run Regional Juvenile Detention Facility prompted a Department of Family Services investigation. Cheyenne rodeo addresses shock issue
- Cheyenne Frontier Days has agreed to impose stricter rules on the use of hand-held electric shock devices on horses in its annual rodeo, a change welcomed by an Illinois-based animal rights group that persuaded a rock band to cancel its performance over animal abuse concerns."They're not going to be used to make them buck, they're not going to be used to move them in the chutes, they would be used only in the case of an emergency," Frontier Days spokesman Bob Budd said. Wyoming juvenile detention center investigated
- The Wyoming Department of Family Services is looking into "serious allegations" at a privately run juvenile detention center in Casper.DFS spokeswoman Juliette Rule is not saying what may have happened at the center although she says the allegations are unusual for Wyoming. Matchbox Twenty cite concern for animals, cancel rodeo concert
- Matchbox Twenty has canceled a performance at a large rodeo event out of concern for the animals.Lead singer Rob Thomas confirmed that the band is pulling out of its July 18 show at Cheyenne Frontier Days, which bills itself as the world's biggest outdoor rodeo. |
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