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Wyoming's 2024 Candidates | WyoFile 2024 Election Guide
WEBAug 25, 2024 · Welcome to WyoFile’s guide to the 2024 election. This guide aims to help voters inform themselves before heading to the polls. Every federal and state legislative candidate was sent a questionnaire crafted by WyoFile reporters and editors about the key issues facing Wyoming. The candidates’ responses, or lack thereof, are included in their original, unedited form in the guide.
Treasurer troubles: Lawmakers target Wyo’s tardy accounting
WEBFeb 23, 2022 · The treasurer’s office has experienced “a breakdown in financial accounting processes and systems,” starting in mid 2019 — shortly after Meier assumed office — according to an independent consultant’s review of the agency’s performance. “Many of the causes of the breakdown persist today and present potential for additional ...
Legislative Coverage - WyoFile
WEBFeb 13, 2024 · Legislative Coverage. Materials available to the public outside the House at the Wyoming Capitol. (Ashton J. Hacke/WyoFile) WyoFile is committed to ensuring our readers have the verifiable, factual information they need to participate effectively in civic life, including pertinent information about what’s happening at the statehouse during ...
‘Wyoming is watching’ as historic electric rate hike ... - WyoFile
WEBOct 23, 2023 · A 21.6% electric rate hike request panned by customers and politicians as an unjustified threat to households and the state’s economy will be scrutinized beginning Wednesday at a multi-day, court-like hearing before the Wyoming Public Service Commission. The high-profile and historic rate hike from Rocky Mountain Power — …
Lawsuit alleges Wyoming State Hospital ‘operates in walled …
WEBA Jan. 18, 2022 lawsuit alleges staff at the Evanston facility blocked an independent oversight organization’s access to patients. (Tricia Simpson/Wikimedia Commons) A lawsuit claims staff at the Wyoming State Hospital are illegally blocking access to an independent advocacy organization, leaving patients vulnerable to abuse and neglect.
Wyo Game and Fish issues 2K new elk tags as herds exceed goals
WEBApr 23, 2021 · Midnight, June 1 is the deadline for those applications. Resident licenses cost $62 but some tags for only cows or calves sell for $48. Game and Fish charges non-residents $707 for lottery-issued full-price elk tags, which include a fishing license, and $303 for cow/calf licenses. The out-of-state deadline for the elk license lottery was Feb. 1.
Requiem for a family-owned local newspaper - WyoFile
WEBFeb 15, 2022 · Requiem for a family-owned local newspaper. After two generations of Peck-family ownership, the Riverton Ranger has changed hands twice in roughly a month, prompting a staff exodus and troubling stakeholders. New out-of-state CEO promises continued focus on local news. The Riverton Ranger’s offices are …
PacifiCorp holds course to exit Wyoming coal - WyoFile
WEBAug 30, 2021 · RMP will retire 14 of its coal-fired power units across several states by 2030, and a total of 19 by 2040, RMP’s parent company PacifiCorp stated in a presentation to Wyoming utility officials late last week. PacifiCorp plans to add more than 3,700 megawatts of new wind power by 2040 throughout its six-state region, including in Wyoming.