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Wyoming Football Coach Jay Sawvel Optimistic for 2025 Season

Wyoming Football Coach Jay Sawvel Optimistic for 2025 Season

Wyoming head coach Jay Sawvel is eager to move past last season's 3-9 record as the Cowboys prepare for their season opener against Akron. With enhanced coaching staff continuity and key player acquisitions, Sawvel emphasizes it's time to prove...

Wyoming First Lady’s initiative awards $150K to fight food insecurity

Wyoming First Lady’s initiative awards $150K to fight food insecurity

Wyoming First Lady Jennie Gordon’s Hunger Initiative is helping local organizations fight food insecurity. More than $150,000 in grants have been awarded to 47 nonprofits across the state. The funding will help expand services and improve...

Wyoming rooftop solar installers are busier than ever. But demand could plummet Jan. 1

Wyoming rooftop solar installers are busier than ever. But demand could plummet Jan. 1

Electrician Andrew Weatherford scrambled up the utility stairs of the Albany County Courthouse. He popped on the roof where several rows of black solar panels glistened. “So they're angled a little bit so they can get the best production,” said...

Wyoming PBS Foundation receives $500K challenge grant from Hughes Charitable Foundation

Wyoming PBS Foundation receives $500K challenge grant from Hughes Charitable Foundation

Riverton, Wyo. - As Wyoming PBS celebrates its ongoing commitment to statewide storytelling, the Foundation has received a generous $500,000 challenge grant from the Hughes Charitable Foundation to establish the Legacy of the West Endowment. This...

Wyoming’s Godwin Mercado opens as year-round market and event hub

Wyoming’s Godwin Mercado opens as year-round market and event hub

A new $5.8 million produce marketplace opened in Wyoming with plans to offer space for local farmers and food makers to connect with the public year-round. Godwin Mercado, located at 301 36th Street SW, is the latest addition to Site 36, a 75-acre...

H.S. Football: Wyoming Area outlasts Crestwood in opening night thriller

WEST PITTSTON — Wyoming Area’s offense did its job in the fourth quarter in Friday night’s opener against Crestwood. Now it was the defense’s turn and, despite surrendering a touchdown, it came up big when needed. Linebacker Ben Gravine forced an...

How Storms Can Both Help And Hinder Wyoming Wildfire Efforts

How Storms Can Both Help And Hinder Wyoming Wildfire Efforts

Common sense would make you think that when you have a thunderstorm roll through an area that's experiencing a wildfire, it would be a good thing. Thunderstorms bring rain. Rain is water. Water will put out fire. Simple, right? Not necessarily,...

Weather delay, positive attitude lifts TCA girls cross country team to second place finish at Cheyenne Mountain Stampede

Weather delay, positive attitude lifts TCA girls cross country team to second place finish at Cheyenne Mountain Stampede

A nearly two-hour weather delay turned out to be a blessing for several runners at the 2025 Cheyenne Mountain Stampede on Friday, including The Classical Academy girls' cross country team. After three of eight races in the pre-state meet at Norris...

Wyoming State Fair, Another Great One

From the Publisher, Dennis Sun The 2025 Wyoming State Fair (WSF) is over, and I’ll bet planning has started for 2026. The Wyoming Livestock Roundup team is honored to be part of the WSF every year with the Roundup Tent. We were proud of the tent...

Wyoming Athletics Partners with Teamworks Influencer

Wyoming Athletics Partners with Teamworks Influencer

LARAMIE -- Wyoming Athletics, in partnership with Teamworks Influencer, has launched the Wyoming Athletics Exchange to expand Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) opportunities for student-athletes. The collaboration continues the Wyoming's investment...

How Good Can This Wyoming Offense Really Be?

How Good Can This Wyoming Offense Really Be?

LARAMIE -- How good can this Wyoming offense really be? Kaden Anderson didn't hesitate. "I tell the O-line, 'Just give me three seconds and we can really carve some people up,'" the sophomore quarterback said on Monday. "We've got talent...

Paving Work To Start Soon On Zimmer Road, Old US 30 East

Paving Work To Start Soon On Zimmer Road, Old US 30 East

InkFreeNews.com Posted Aug 22, 2025 Updated: Aug 22, 2025 @ 1:57 PM Press Release WARSAW — Paving work will soon begin on Zimmer Road and Old US 30 East. Work on Zimmer Road will begin on Saturday, Aug. 23. The work should be completed by the end...

Powell revises policy framework for evolving economy

Powell revises policy framework for evolving economy

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday opened the door ever so slightly to lowering a key interest rate in the coming months but gave no hint on the timing of a move and suggested the central bank will proceed cautiously as it continues to...

Akron Notebook: Wyoming Not Disregarding New-Look Zips

Akron Notebook: Wyoming Not Disregarding New-Look Zips

LARAMIE -- Buzzsaw. Ambush. Blitzkrieg. Whatever you want to call it, Wyoming walked into last August in the Arizona desert. Kenny Dillingham sent out the warning: This isn't the same ol' Sun Devils. Boy, was the young head coach right about that....

University of Wyoming launches fund to support Wind River tribal students

University of Wyoming launches fund to support Wind River tribal students

Students from the Wind River Reservation will soon have additional financial support to attend the University of Wyoming. The university’s Board of Trustees has established the Wind River Promise Fund, a $2 million endowment with $250,000 in...

Research & Commentary: New Index Shows Wyoming Needs to Do More to Keep Up with Education Choice Revolution

Research & Commentary: New Index Shows Wyoming Needs to Do More to Keep Up with Education Choice Revolution

A new report shows Wyoming is lagging behind in a nationwide education movement still building momentum. According to the 2025 EdChoice Friedman Index—a new measuring system released in April by the titular education reform organization, which is...

Fed chair Powell hints at rate cut as inflation and jobs pressure economy

Fed chair Powell hints at rate cut as inflation and jobs pressure economy

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hinted on Friday that a key interest rate could be lowered in the coming months, but gave no indication of when, implying that the central bank will proceed cautiously while assessing the impact of tariffs and...

Wyoming man indicted after allegedly showing off wounded wolf in bar before killing it

Wyoming man indicted after allegedly showing off wounded wolf in bar before killing it

A Wyoming man who allegedly hit a wolf with a snowmobile, taped the wounded animal’s mouth shut and showed it off in a rural bar before killing it has been indicted on an animal cruelty charge by a grand jury nearly a year and a half after the...

Why does an independent Fed matter? Just look at Ronald Reagan’s economy with Paul Volcker hiking rates to nearly 20%

Why does an independent Fed matter? Just look at Ronald Reagan’s economy with Paul Volcker hiking rates to nearly 20%

President Donald Trump this week called on a Federal Reserve governor to resign over an accusation of mortgage fraud, the latest effort by his administration to exert greater control over one of the few remaining independent agencies in...

Wyoming guard looks to Congress for money as Trump deployments hit accounts

Wyoming guard looks to Congress for money as Trump deployments hit accounts

Over 21,000 Wyomingites get WyoFile delivered straight to their inbox. Join your neighbors and stay informed with the stories shaping Wyoming. The Wyoming National Guard’s coffers are feeling the pinch of President Donald Trump’s second...

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