Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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CHEYENNE (AP) — Wyoming has joined about a half-dozen other states that let big game hunters don pink in the field. Gov. Matt Mead on Wednesday signed into law a bill adding fluorescent pink to the fluorescent orange now mandated statewide. The new law, which cleared the state Legislature last week, takes effect July 1 before the fall hunting season. Most big game hunters have been required to wear blaze orange as a safety measure to help distinguish themselves from other hunters. Sen. Affie Ellis, who sponsored the bill adding pink, said h...
CHEYENNE (AP) — Increasing oil patch activity in Wyoming will generate more tax revenue for the state’s depleted coffers, but the predicted bump in oil tax revenue isn’t near enough to counter the current and expected continued decline in coal and natural gas revenue. “We still got a long way to go to cover our deficit,” Rep. Bob Nicholas, co-chairman of the Legislature’s Joint Appropriations Committee, said Monday after hearing the latest projections of state revenue. The Wyoming Legislature meets next month to craft a new state budget whil...
CHEYENNE (AP) — Nearly 192,000 people traveled to Wyoming to view last summer’s total solar eclipse, boosting the state’s economy by an estimated $63.5 million, according to an analysis released Monday by the state Tourism Office. “That’s phenomenal when you have all of this new money being pumped into the economy,” Diane Shober, executive director of the Wyoming Office of Tourism, said. The $63.5 million came from people spending money on travel, lodging, food and shopping over a five-day period around the eclipse. “There were impacts in ev...
CHEYENNE (AP) — A legislative panel tasked with finding ways to raise revenue for the cash-strapped state is considering a new tax to pay for Wyoming’s efforts to promote tourism. The Legislature’s Joint Revenue Committee is drafting a bill that would impose a 1 percent tax on purchases at hotels, restaurants, bars and other leisure and hospitality establishments around the state. It’s estimated the tax would raise more than $17 million annually. Most of the money from the tax would fund the state Tourism Office, which promotes Wyoming...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Fresh tracks found on a dirt road in a rural, northwest Wyoming prairie are the latest example of grizzly bears roaming a type of habitat where they have not been seen in a century and risk more contact with humans. The tracks, confirmed by state Game and Fish Department bear experts, were discovered Oct. 18 by Virginia Schmidt while she was hiking near her family ranch about 7 miles (11 kilometers) outside of the former frontier town of Cody. "We've never seen signs of grizzlies back there — like it shocked me," the 27-...