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In an interview on Monday after he spoke at the Western States Energy and Environment Symposium , Freudenthal ruled out mandates for stricter building efficiency codes or energy standards for appliances, the story stated.

For the fifth year in a row, Wyoming producers have won or placed extremely high in the World's Forage Analysis Superbowl at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis.

The Colorado Department of Transportation has closed Interstate 70 from Denver to the Kansas border because of blowing snow.The highway was shut down Thursday afternoon as a powerful wintry storm continued moving east.

Wyoming Department of Transportation public affairs officer Doug McGee says it's unlikely that Interstate 80 across southeastern Wyoming will be reopened on Thursday.

The Park County Commission has asked Gov. Dave Freudenthal to request an agricultural disaster declaration because of crops losses from an early freeze.

A storm that brought the first heavy snow of autumn to a large portion of the Rockies and western plains prompted officials to close schools in Wyoming today and was blamed for dozens of accidents in the state and in neighboring Colorado.

A major early season cold front brought gusting winds and cool temperatures to the Southwest and prompted warnings of heavy snowfall and blizzard conditions in parts of Wyoming and Colorado.

State lawmakers from around the West are gathering in the northern Wyoming resort town of Jackson over the next few days to figure out how to get better coordinated on energy issues.

Authorities in Colorado and Wyoming have arrested more than 100 people in a sex offender sweep this month.

A panel of state financial experts again has trimmed its estimate of revenues the state of Wyoming will receive in the two-year budget cycle that starts next July - this time by more than $380 million.

Cheyenne City Councilman Jim Brown, thinking it was time his city joined the movement to keep drivers from being distracted by their handheld cell phones, steered an ordinance banning the practice into law last month.

A plan to put toll booths on Interstate 80 in Wyoming to help pay for maintenance while also reducing congestion, hazards and traffic deaths is cruising forward.

Lawmakers in the Cowboy State have invited their neighbors to parley on energy issues, and they're putting up more than $400,000 to pick up the tab.

Wyoming's congressional delegation has offered the following comments. U.S. Senators Mike Enzi, John Barrasso and Representative Cynthia Lummis, all R-Wyo., mourned the passing of former Wyoming senator and governor Cliff Hansen.

Four pharmaceutical companies have reached a nearly $50,000 settlement with the state of Wyoming for allegedly submitting false claims to the Medicaid program.

Joe Hudon, formerly of The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, becomes associate publisher of the Buffalo Bulletin, the latter paper reports .

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department plans to supplement a dwindling bighorn sheep herd in south-central Wyoming with 60 animals from Utah and Oregon, a strategy officials hope will give the herd its best chance for survival.

The State Board of Land Commissioners is getting a growing number of requests from energy companies that want to shut down wells on state leases.

A federal judge has overturned water quality rules that were meant to protect southeastern Montana cropland from natural gas drilling but were assailed by Wyoming as a threat to energy production.

The Air Force will open a new airstrip Saturday at the Army's Camp Guernsey Field, Wyo., according to a news release from McChord Air Force Base, Wash.

Two companies say they've begun producing wind energy at three new wind farms in Wyoming.

Northbound Interstate 25 has been closed at the Wyoming state line. The Colorado Department of Transportation said there have been multiple accidents on the highway in Wyoming Monday.

Share + Oct 9, 2009 9:47 am US/Mountain BEN NEARY, Associated Press Writer CHEYENNE, Wyo.

Snow and cold swept through Wyoming on Friday, causing hazardous driving conditions and postponing high school athletic events.

The race remains frozen in place until Dave Freudenthal announces whether he will sue to overturn the state's term limits law.

The new Mobile Telehealth Clinic, which comes to Sterling from the Cheyenne VA Medical Center, now offers regular preventative care to qualified veterans each week.

Wyoming influenza activity jumped sharply due to swine flu and has become widespread across the state over the last week or so, according to the Wyoming Department of Health.

Somewhere on Route 28 to the southwest of this Wyoming town, a series of roadside plaques commemorates the early American settlers who passed this way on the Oregon Trail in the mid-19th century.

Wyoming influenza activity jumped sharply due to swine flu and has become widespread across the state over the last week or so, according to the Wyoming Department of Health.

Wyoming police say an 11-year-old boy led law enforcement on a high speed chase reaching up to 100 mph.