Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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CHEYENNE — Companies operating bar games that resemble video slot machines are challenging the Wyoming attorney general’s position that they’re enabling illegal gambling. In a lawsuit filed recently in Natrona County District Court, a group of vendors called Wyoming Skills LLC says special features in their games make winning a question of skill, exempting them from state gambling laws. The games from North Carolina-based Banilla Corp. mimic casino-style slot machines that are illegal in Wyoming. But the vendors say skill comes in when the t...
CHEYENNE — Hundreds of federal employees in Wyoming could face furloughs next week. Unless Congress and President Donald Trump can break their deadlock over funding for a southern border wall, money for departments like Agriculture, Interior, Treasury and Commerce is set to run out at midnight Friday, leaving scores of locals in limbo. Lawmakers approved money for other parts of the government, including the Department of Defense, earlier this year, so airmen at F.E. Warren Air Force Base and the Wyoming Air National Guard should be spared. B...
CHEYENNE — Several dozen people gathered in downtown Cheyenne to express support for gun rights, as a response to nationwide protests calling for increased restrictions on gun ownership. The rally Saturday in front of the Wyoming Supreme Court building, which included politicians and members of militia groups, was coordinated with rallies at other state capitols under the auspices of the National Constitutional Coalition of Patriotic Americans, an alliance of nationalist organizations dedicated to putting America “back on track,” accor...