Around Wyoming, Friday, May 16

Grand Teton National Park got creative while trying to protect sage grouse from departing and arriving planes. Buckrail reports the Teton Raptor Center, Jackson Hole Middle School art students, and local artist Lori Solem created four papier mache sage …

Casting Wyoming kiddos out of the classroom

WASHAKIE RESERVOIR—Eliah Duren’s fingers pinched a clear plastic cup.  Rainbow trout fry writhed inside.  The classmate critiques started coming. Too many fish. Too little water. They’d been confined for too long. Duren’s fellow seventh graders urged him …

From toothpaste to beer bottles to industrial batteries, the world relies on Wyoming’s ‘white gold’

GREEN RIVER—After a four-minute elevator descent into the bowels of southwest Wyoming, dropping deep enough to bury the Empire State Building, a Tata Chemicals trona miner drove two Wyoming journalists in a truck 8.5 miles through catacombs, crossing under …

Wyoming Debrief May 16, 2025

D2 LACROSSE: Wyoming Area eliminated in Class 2A quarterfinals

MOSCOW — Most don’t consider rain clouds to be a positive omen. But, North Pocono girls lacrosse considers bad weather lucky. “It’s kind of a running joke with our team,” North Pocono defender Maggie Young said. “Every game that we have lost was bright, …

Spring Stole Ceremony to Be Held Friday for Wyoming Athletes

LARAMIE -- The University of Wyoming Athletics Department will honor the most recent group of student-athlete graduates on Friday at its Spring Stole Ceremony. The by-invitation event will be held for the graduates and their families and friends at the …

H.S. Baseball: Holy Redeemer finally edges Wyoming Area after rainouts

EDWARDSVILLE — Rained out on three other occasions, Wyoming Area and Holy Redeemer made the wait worth it Thursday. Wyoming Area tied the score in the top of the seventh, only to have Redeemer’s Zach Schultz hit a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the …

Trump’s ‘liquidation plans’ could wipe out Wyoming research group renowned for migration work

Judge keeps transgender woman in Wyoming sorority case, but warns lawyers against irrelevant allegations

A federal judge denied a transgender woman’s request to be dismissed from a highly publicized lawsuit against her and a University of Wyoming sorority, but gave a warning Wednesday to opposing counsel in the case — follow the rules of the court.  U.S. …

Jury finds Wyoming man, 48, guilty of killing woman he chased into street after argument

KENT COUNTY, MI — A 48-year-old Wyoming man was convicted Thursday of murdering a 25-year-old woman outside his home last fall. Anthony Lamar Buxton was found guilty of second-degree murder and felony firearm in the Sept. 8, 2024, shooting death of Kanivia …