It's encouraging to see the Wyoming Legislature, at least at the committee level, digging into issues related to Title 25, mental health laws, and the ...

Remember last year, when there was so much oil on the global marketplace, at precisely the same time demand for petroleum products was shrinking amid the ...

In our data hungry society, there are those who watch the daily changes in coronavirus vaccine percentages with something best described as intensity, if not ...

Newspaper publishers, editors and reporters with any common sense (and we know that's only some of them) never believed for a second that the portion of the ...

Suppose somebody ran the same red light three days in a row, causing pedestrians crossing the street to dive for cover, other cars to swerve onto the sidewalks ...

Tuesday notes Pack it on No one minded last week's season-opening snowstorm all that much, because it moved through quickly, leaving our populated areas ...

Tribes and the WBC Biz council grants must be available to the tribes, and the Legislature must see to it There's not much point anymorein asking how ...

Around the nation, October is recognized as the month both to remind the public about the basic principles and practices of fire safety, and to recognize ...

From governments to private citizens, sensible snow removal helps everyone We got off easier than expected with this week's snowstorm, which threatened to ...

Could Amtrak come back to Wyoming? We ran a news brief on the idea in Tuesday's Ranger. The City of Rock Springs endorsed Amtrak's return. Expanding passenger ...

When the Wyoming Legislature crosses most people's minds, thoughts of winter days at the Capitol building in Cheyenne come to mine most readily. Usually, ...

The Nobel Peace Prize was announced Friday, and two reporters won it. They aren't reporters who take a camera over to Kiwanis Kids Fishing Day on a Saturday ...

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Quick -- name a Nobel Prize winner. It's not all that easy, is it? Some Americans probably would remember that Jimmy Carter, Al Gore and Barack Obama won ...

Do the American people support spending $1.4 trillion to build, rebuild and/or upgrade highways, bridges, airports, seaports, pipelines, transmission lines and ...

"Food insecurity" is a nicer way of saying "hunger." Many Fremont County residents might not realize it, but there are significant numbers of people here who ...

Thanks, Ma There is no official, verifiable, unimpeachable way to determine what day of a particular year has the best weather. Not everyone even agrees ...

New enrollment figures at the University of Wyoming show a decrease of about 300 students this fall. The decline comes in the category called "returning ...

The 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on 2001 sparked headlines and remembrances around the nation, including in Wyoming, just as it should ...

Football is back, with gambling now part of it --officially. That could hardly seem more strange to many longtime fans. Until very recent years, gambling on ...

Not long ago -- before this year, really -- the notion that a landslide-elected official in Wyoming, whose last name was Cheney, would face a big-money, ...

In the days immediately following the terrorist attacks 20 years ago this week, the empty spaces on newspaper opinion pages challenged editorial writers. ...

If you had a sore knee and began limping in order to "favor it," you might notice that your supposedly good knee starts to hurt as well, due to the extra ...

Anyone who knows anything about the coronavirus pandemic knows that early last fall to the middle of last winter was the worst period of the whole coronavirus ...

Lots of communities, from the smallest to the largest, disagree with the population figure they are assigned by the U.S. Census Bureau every 10 years. ...

There's something prideful in census results. You just don't want to see your community shrink. That blanket statement might not apply to absolutely ...

Timing can work against bureaucracy when important decisions need to be made. That could well be the case as Wyoming school districts, community colleges and ...