Category Archives: Wyoming

Powerful snow storm with high winds headed toward western US

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Blizzard warnings issued for Wyoming and Nebraska and 2ft of snow expected in Colorado over the weekend

A powerful spring snow storm was expected over the next three days to blanket parts of the US Rockies and central high plains where forecasters warned of whiteout conditions, power outages and avalanches.

The National Weather Service (NWS) issued blizzard warnings for parts of Wyoming and western Nebraska, where quickly accumulating snowfall of up to 2ft (61cm) and fierce winds reaching 65mph (105km per hour) could cause dangerous conditions from Saturday through Monday.

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Liz Cheney censured by Wyoming Republican party for voting to impeach Trump

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Cheney, the third ranking member of the House Republican leadership, was censured in a vote Saturday by her state’s Republican party

Liz Cheney, the third-highest-ranking Republican leader in the House, was censured by the Wyoming Republican party on Saturday for voting to impeach Donald Trump for his role in the 6 January riot at the US Capitol.

The overwhelming censure vote was the latest blowback for Cheney for joining nine Republican representatives and all Democrats in the US House in the 13 January impeachment vote.

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Wyoming Marches to Keep Families Together

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From Jackson to Cheyenne, people protested the separation of migrant families at the border and advocates say the fight has just begun People wrote messages in chalk outside of ICE's Cheyenne office on Saturday as part of the nationwide protests against Trump's immigration policy. undreds of thousands of people in more than 700 American towns and cities took to the streets on June 30 to protest President Trump's immigration policy.

Delegation opposes paper tariff

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Wyoming's congressional delegation is speaking out against tariffs on Canadian newsprint that are driving up costs for newspaper publishers to the point of threatening to close some smaller community publications. For many of America's community newspapers, tariffs on Canadian newsprint threatens to increase costs by as much as 20 percent.

Trauner announces Senate bid

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The last time Gary Trauner ran for national office he was accused of having robbed a bank when he was 16. Though not true, it taught the 58-year-old Wilson resident an important lesson. "People will do anything to win, and though lots of people say they don't like negative campaigning, it's effective," Trauner said Friday, soon after announcing that he would run as a Democrat in the 2018 race for U.S. Senate.

Wyoming congressmen oppose coal subsidy

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Wyoming's congressional delegation wrote a letter to President Trump last week urging him to ignore a proposal for a $4.5 billion federal subsidy for eastern Appalachian coal. Proposed by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice in early August, the subsidy would provide a $15 per ton subsidy for utilities that purchase Eastern rather than Western coal.

Wyoming Residents Don Tutus to Show LGBT Support

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Wyoming residents this weekend found a creative way to protest the anti-LGBT remarks made by one of their U.S. senators - holding tutu-wearing parties at bars and other venues. Sen. Mike Enzi infamously told students at a Wyoming high school recently that he knows a man who wears a tutu to bars and gets into fights because of it - and "he kind of asks for it."