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12/01/2025

What are your thoughts regarding the Wyoming Supreme Court halting school funding changes?

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12/01/2025

Giving Tuesday - December 2, 2025

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11/30/2025

Giving Tuesday - December 2, 2025

Building community, connect Wyoming.

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11/27/2025

After launching his budget proposal earlier this month, some state officials have responded to Gov. Mark Gordon's recommendations.

The governor’s $1 billion proposal for 2027 and 2028 calls for increased funding to help the state administer SNAP, increased state employee wages and two new wildfire response teams. He’s recommending less than what state agencies requested for school construction projects, the health department and the Wyoming Business Council.

State Treasurer Curt Meier praised Gordon’s budget in a release, calling it “fiscally responsible and is in step with the Treasurer’s vision for a

State that eventually should not need to worry whether the oil, gas and minerals segment is in a boom or bust cycle.”

Aligning with Gordon, Meier believes Wyoming's money generated from investments can help Wyomingites long-term if managed properly.

Photo credit: Chris Clements

State office holders and the Democratic party said Gordon missed the mark on elections spending and supporting investments over funding government...

11/27/2025

Permits to harvest Christmas trees and firewood from public lands are now available.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) offers permits on its website and at most of its field offices around the state. Each permit costs between $7.50 to $10 based on location.

Permits for trees from national forests can be found at https://ow.ly/SY2U50XyNc0. Those run $8 to $15, depending on the forest.

The Wyoming State Forestry Division also offers Christmas tree and firewood harvest on state lands. Check with your nearest district office.

Photo credit: Caitlin Tan

The U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and Wyoming Forestry Division offer lost-cost tags for folks wanting to harvest their own...

11/27/2025

The Historic Governor's Mansion is decking the halls in preparation for its Tinsel Through Time exhibit.

"Even though we always do a Christmas exhibit, the fact that the overall theme changes every single year means there's always something new," said Alexis Pratt, superintendent of the residence.

The exhibit has been a tradition at Wyoming's Historic Governors' Mansion since 2013, encouraging visitors to remember Christmases past.

This year's theme is Victorian Christmas.

"We have a lot of homemade decorations, a lot of over the top stuff. We've done like the flicker flame lights you can kind of see throughout the room here," said Pratt.

The free exhibit gives a chance for the community to come see the residence in it's festive form, with 15 rooms decorated throughout the mansion, including handmade chains, nutcrackers, garland and a grand total of 28 Christmas trees.

Photo credit: Grace Swanke

Story credit: Wyoming News Now

The exhibit has been a tradition at Wyoming's Historic Governors' Mansion since 2013, encouraging visitors to remember Christmases past. This...

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from WPM! 🦃

We at the station are grateful for our community, reporters, and our staff.

But most importantly... we're thankful for YOU!

Thank you for being here, and happy holidays ❤️

11/27/2025

WYOMING PUBLIC MEDIA - HOLIDAY PROGRAMS 2025 NOVEMBER 27 –
THANKSGIVING WYOMING PUBLIC RADIO

9 am - Wyoming Sounds Thanksgiving Special
11 am - Alice’s Restaurant Massacree by Arlo Guthrie
2 pm - Massasoit’s Peace Pact with the Pilgrims
8 pm - Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra-Land That I Love
CLASSICAL WYOMING
10 am - Songs of Thanks with Cantus
WYOMING PUBLIC RADIO
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27
3 pm - Practices of Hope

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11/27/2025

As Wyoming lawmakers gear up to reshape the state’s budget, Rep. John Bear (R-Gillette) and others in the Wyoming Freedom Caucus have talked about how their vision for the state’s future comes from scripture.

The caucus and its allies and endorsees took control of the state House after the 2024 general election, the first state Freedom Caucus in the U.S. to do so.

“ We had a plan,” Bear said at a press conference in February 2025. “A plan came from a vision, and if your core values are just based on something nebulous or your own emotions versus something like scripture, then it's very easy to try to go in multiple directions and not have a plan, not have a vision.”

In an ideal, theoretical world, Bear said he’d like to see churches take more of a lead on some aspects of state government, like certain mental health and social safety net programs.

But that’s not a view everyone shares.
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In an ideal, theoretical world, Rep. John Bear (R-Gillette) says he’d like to see churches take more of a lead on some aspects of state government,...

11/26/2025

Some U.S. Senators want to speed up decisions on how wide swaths of federal lands are managed and give local officials more of a say in the process.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) led a Nov. 19 hearing about the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which oversees 245 million surface acres and 700 million subsurface mineral acres of land in the U.S.

He said the agency’s planning and permitting process has become “rigid, slow, and often detached from the intent Congress expressed.”

In 1976, Congress gave the BLM a dual mandate: manage public land for “multiple uses” and a “sustained yield.” That means the agency has to balance priorities like recreation and conservation with grazing, timber harvesting and energy development.

Micah Christensen, the natural resource counsel for the Wyoming County Commissioners Association, testified saying those priorities have been subject to political whiplash as presidential administrations change.

Photo credit: Gage Skidmore

Senators characterized the agency’s decision-making process as “rigid” and “slow,” and said they want states to have a bigger role.

11/26/2025

The Wyoming Legislature’s top leaders on the Management Council voted down a draft bill in a 5-5 split on Nov. 19 that would’ve required the nonpartisan Legislative Service Office (LSO) to publish a list of quarantined email addresses.

That’s after one political group alleged the current system is keeping their messages from being read. As it stands, emails can wind up in a lawmaker’s quarantine folder if Microsoft determines they’re mass messages.

Drake Hill gave public comment as a lawyer representing Honor Wyoming, a political nonprofit that advocates for lawmakers to uphold conservative values and tends to back further-right candidates for office.

He testified the effect of the current email quarantine policy is censorship of the public’s communications with legislators.

Besides Honor Wyoming, no member of the public gave comment on the draft legislation.

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That’s after one political group complained the current system is keeping their messages from being read.