Medicine Bow News

A Texas-based wind energy company is making plans for the construction of a wind farm in eastern Carbon County.

Students from across Wyoming learned more about agriculture and were recently recognized for their participation in the 2008 Wyoming Farm Bureau "Ag Books for Kids" contests.

Wyoming is the main target for about 10,000 megawatts of new electrical transmission lines, beginning with the Gateway West project, stretching some 1,100 miles from Glenrock to Medicine Bow and finally to ...

Tribal elders are among those offering support to families and friends of 3 teenage girls found dead this week on the Wind River Indian Reservation.

Heavy rain and spring snowmelt are causing the reservoirs that supply water to Cheyenne to fill up.

Harley-Davidson Ultra Classic rider from Casper was killed Sunday,, June 1, 26 miles north of Medicine Bow in Carbon County.

The U.S. Forest Service has rolled out a plan to cut down beetle-killed trees that threaten to topple onto roads and trails.

Brian E. Felstet, 49, died at the scene of the crash, 26 miles north of Medicine Bow in Carbon County .

Compiled by SALLY ANN SHURMUR Star-Tribune staff writer Weekend activities include opportunities to watch machine guns and cannons being fired, walk for life and celebrate cancer survivors.

In New York City, they call pigeons rats with wings. In Wyoming, this kind of distaste is often reserved for the prairie dog, which is legally classified as a pest.

Category: Dinosaurs Inverts Paleontology Posted on: May 21, 2008 11:23 AM, by Brian Switek When I think about taphonomy, the science that studies what happens to an organism after death , my thoughts most ...

“The adults fly off to a carcass, deposit eggs, the eggs hatch and the larvae molt multiple times”

For years, paleontologists have puzzled over strange markings etched into dinosaur fossils. via ScrippsNews

“I knew this trace was something different because I had been looking at fossil termite traces all summer, so I knew we needed to check it out”

Now a Brigham Young University study identifies a culprit: ancient insects that munched on dinosaur bones. via Science Daily

“The numbers have made a big, big jump”

The mountain snowpack in Wyoming is above average for this time of year, and experts say the abundance of high-country moisture this spring could recharge reservoirs drained low by drought. via The Topeka Capital-Journal

“There's just not going to be an impact.”

A company experimenting with ways to boost snowfall says it dropped 23.5 pounds of silver iodide during airplane flights over the western slope of the Wind River Range from November to March. via USA Today

Large parts of Interstate 80 in southeast Wyoming remains closed this morning and travel remains hazardous in a large part of the state because of slick roads. via KIFI

“We have been getting (proposals) in from companies to build our next project and the quoted prices are higher than we expected”

Some components on Vestas Wind Systems-manufactured wind turbines at Platte River Power Authority's Medicine Bow Wind Project are failing more than 15 years earlier than expected, according to PRPA. via Fort Collins Coloradoan

“If we can reach young women at the beginning of their careers and have an impact, then we might see a change (in the wage gap,)”

Nationwide, men continue to earn more than women working in comparable positions, according to one national expert. via Laramie Daily Boomerang

“But you do run across problems. College-age students, a lot of times, turn a deaf ear to messages about responsible alcohol consumption. That is an attitude that a community definitely has to fight against.”

It used to be that in Wyoming, you would measure the distance between towns by the can or by the six-pack instead of by the mile. via Laramie Daily Boomerang

“We feel that sets a precedent for this”

Over the past seven years, Bridger Coal Co. has slowly expanded its 34-year-old Sweetwater County mine to include a new underground operation, while maintaining the existing surface mine. via Casper Star Tribune