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Seven zoos across America are teaming up to save the Wyoming toad from extinction, and this year they're celebrating a major breakthrough. One Minnesota zoo just shipped 3,000 tadpoles back to their native Wyoming home.
A house cat that disappeared during a cross-country road trip in 2023 has been found alive and returned to her New York family after surviving nearly three years in the Wyoming wilderness. The reunion happened thanks to a Wyoming couple who spotted the collar-wearing stray and tracked down her owners.
A network of zoos across America is bringing the Wyoming toad back from the brink of extinction, one tadpole at a time. This year alone, they've shipped 3,000 tadpoles back to their wild home in the Laramie Basin.
Wyoming's largest wildlife crossing is wrapping up a year ahead of schedule, ready to cut deer and pronghorn collisions by up to 90%. The $30 million project could save lives and millions in accident costs.
A Wyoming community college is proving higher education pays off for everyone. New data shows Casper College pumps nearly $174 million into the local economy each year while welcoming its highest student enrollment since 2021.
Wyoming just made electric vehicles more affordable for residents by slashing registration fees and eliminating unfair triple taxation. The bipartisan bill shows how practical policy changes can make clean transportation accessible to everyone.
Despite federal headwinds, Florida-based NextEra Energy just locked in grid access for 200 megawatts of wind power in Wyoming, enough to power 150,000 homes. The deal signals renewable energy is still moving forward in the state, even as some developers pull back.
After a 50-year conservation success story that grew grizzly populations from 136 to 1,000 bears, the Trump administration is returning wildlife management to Wyoming. Local experts who've spent decades protecting these thriving bears will finally make decisions about the species they helped save.
Special Olympics Wyoming is calling for volunteers to help run its two-day Summer Sports Classic in Casper this August. Athletes from across the state will compete in five sports, and the community can make it happen.
Wyoming officials want to turn their federal rural health grants into a permanent fund that could support hospitals and ambulance services indefinitely. The creative plan would invest most of the money and spend only the returns each year.
Wyoming just made electric vehicles more affordable for residents while ensuring tourists help fund the roads they drive on. A bipartisan effort led by Rep. Mike Yin flipped the script on EV taxation.
A Torrington student is celebrating alongside 41 others after receiving scholarships from the Oregon Trail Community Foundation for the 2026-2027 school year. The foundation is making higher education more accessible for dozens of Wyoming families.
A German couple's GPS led them down a treacherous ATV trail in Wyoming, blowing out two tires and leaving them stranded. Big Horn County Search & Rescue came to the rescue, turning a navigation nightmare into a safe ending.
A revolutionary nuclear reactor just got the green light to start construction in Wyoming, marking the first such approval in nearly a decade. The groundbreaking design could transform how clean energy works alongside wind and solar power.
A one-of-a-kind dinosaur fossil survived 146 million years underground, only to nearly vanish forever when a water pipe burst in a museum in the 1920s. Today, scientists treasure the single remaining bone of Alcovasaurus, Wyoming's rarest dinosaur.
A couple from Germany following GPS directions ended up stranded on a rugged Wyoming ATV trail with two blown tires. Big Horn County Search & Rescue's quick response turned their adventure gone wrong into a story with a happy ending.
A Bill Gates-backed nuclear company just acquired breakthrough safety technology from South Korea to help build America's first next-generation reactor in Wyoming. The $4.67 million deal brings cutting-edge sodium reactor testing know-how to the U.S. as construction moves forward on a plant that could change how we power the grid.
When a snowmobiler crashed in remote Wyoming backcountry with a serious leg injury, his emergency device triggered a rescue that brought home the power of preparation. Despite challenging weather and a 22-mile snowmobile trek, Teton County Search and Rescue brought him to safety in just over six hours.
A Wyoming company is testing a wind turbine that sits just 80 feet high and costs a tenth of traditional turbines. If it works, cheap wind power could reach places tall towers never could.
A young boy rock hunting with his grandparents discovered a nearly complete fossilized turtle shell from an era when Wyoming was a subtropical paradise. Paleontologists rewarded him by letting him help excavate the fossil and name it "Little Timmy."
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